Scientific databases (ScDBs) are used to archive and retrieve data describing objects of scientific inquiry. Since these ScDBs must provide continuous and efficient access to large communities of scientists, they are often developed with reliable commercial relational database management systems (DBMSs) or file systems. However, relational DBMSs and flat files do not provide constructs for repr...

Old masonry buildings represent the largest part of traditional constructions. Generally, they are both seismically vulnerable and thermally dispersive. Therefore, need for seismic thermal retrofitting aimed at reducing their vulnerability environmental impact has motivated research efforts towards sustainable solutions. This study presents a literature review approaches currently available ret...

In this paper we describe techniques that we have found helpful for adding unit tests to existing code that has been written without tests. The paper presents some common coding practices that make unit tests hard to retrofit, and why. For each practice we suggest minimal refactorings to open up the code for testing.

This work aims to provide an effective structural solution, minimizing the discomfort during works’ execution, for how retrofit Day-Hospital building of National Cancer Institute “G. Pascale Foundation” in Naples. The vulnerability has been preliminarily evaluated this scope, using linear static and dynamic analyses according code provisions. performance index terms peak ground acceleration (PG...

The concepts of structural assessment and retrofit historical constructions are particular complexity require advanced knowledge in material science, conservation techniques analysis. In particular, adobe constructions, given their low mechanical properties brittle failure modes, immense need comprehensive retrofitting plans. current work focuses on the Church Kuñotambo Peru, having experienced...

In this work we analyse the suitability of using object-oriented features in high integrity systems, and the interest of redesigning a system implementation to include these constructs. The analysis was based on retrofitting object-oriented programming into the pre-object oriented design of the OBOSS software package. The evaluation of the impact was measured in a number of ways. The implicatio...

Methods for retrofitting representations learned from distributional data to the structure of a knowledge graph typically assume that entities are embedded in a connected space and that relations imply similarity. However, knowledge graphs containing diverse entities and relations often do not accord with these assumptions. To overcome these limitations, we present a framework that generalizes ...

Retrofitting works are immensely essential for deteriorated and damaged structures in Engineering and Medical fields, in order to keep, or return to, the originality for safe guarding the structures and consumers. In this paper, different types of methods of retrofitting review notes are given based on the experimental, numerical and analytical methods results on strengthening the Reinforced ce...

concrete shear walls are the most prevalent structural systems resisting lateral loads due to earthquakes in high-rise buildings. very large in-plane stiffness of shear walls provides an excellent drift control in the structure. however, structural damages and early code shortcomings threaten the efficiency of existing structural walls against earthquake. recently, fiber reinforced polymer (frp...