The use of drone technology in the construction sector promises faster and more streamlined working practices. Forward-thinking contractors are investing digitizing their operations drones with capability providing real-time site information is already a reality. Deploying for inspections can help safety managers avoid placing workers precarious situations ability to quickly gather aerial data ...

This paper tackles the problem of understanding when and how a reasoning component of a distributed reasoning system is affected by the other components, and how it affects them. A number of relevant concepts which have a precise intuition in terms of cooperative reasoning systems are proposed thus providing a ground for defining a particular class of contexts importing context. The notion of i...

Piero Iamartino coordinates the new AFI’s Pharmaceutical Technology working group, together with professor Andrea Gazzaniga of the University of Milan. He summarizes for Pharma World the history and final goals of the MCS initiative, originally proposed in 2014 by a British university-industry mixed working group led by representatives of three big pharma, Bristol-Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline ...

Precast prestreesed concrete braces are a new method for seismic strength of Concrete Structures which has the following benefits: a) no wet concrete work in construction site b) No bolt or anchorage to the existing frame c) easy to apply d) short construction period e) low construction cost, to evaluate seismic performance of strengthened structure a model consist of existing frame and concret...