This research work aims to present an experimental study concerning the effect of openings in out-of-plane (OOP) behaviour masonry infills RC buildings. The campaign comprises OOP testing three full-scale infill walls made up horizontal hollow clay bricks, two them with a central window and remaining one door. One specimens opening was first subjected previous in-plane test and, after that, dam...

Complex time-varying phenomena usually produce volume datasets that are not static but dynamic in time. The amounts of storage and the computing power needed to visualize such datasets can easily exceed what could be offered by a single processor. Therefore, networks of computers are ideal to render them. However, data distribution schemes can be highly vulnerable to how the user wants to visua...

Bricks-and-mortar companies wishing to create value-added Internet services do so in a business environment that is characterized by great uncertainty and, hence, formulating a coherent business strategy is exceedingly challenging. This paper presents a case study based analysis of the evolving eBusiness strategy of a bricks-andmortar grocer contrasted with the strategies of other competitors. ...

Masonry infill walls are critical components of reinforced concrete (RC) frames, which may be damaged even under earthquake events moderate intensity, thus resulting in significant losses. Recent experimental and numerical studies have investigated innovative solutions for protecting these by reducing their interaction with the RC frame. Among these, specially shaped rubber joints were develope...

Large datasets are most economically trnsmitted via parcel post given the current economics of wide-area networking. This article describes how the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ships terabyte scale datasets both within the US and to Europe and Asia. We 3GT storage bricks (Ghz processor, GB ram, GbpsEthernet, TB disk) for about 2k$ each. These bricks act as database servers on the LAN. They are load...

A polycube in dimension d is a finite union of unit d-cubes whose vertices are on knots of the lattice Zd . We show that, for each family of polycubes E, there exists a finite set F of bricks (parallelepiped rectangles) such that the bricks which can be tiled by E are exactly the bricks which can be tiled by F . Consequently, if we know the set F , then we have an algorithm to decide in polynom...

naturally occurring radionuclides have different amount of activity concentration for 226 ra, 232 th and 40 k in building materials. in this study, natural radioactivity has been measured for bricks used in tehran. for this work, 9 samples of three types of bricks, clay brick (cb), making the facade brick (mfb) and firebrick (fb) has been selected from different regions and factories in tehran....

BACKGROUND While matrix-induced autologous chondrocyte implantation (MACI) has demonstrated encouraging outcomes in the treatment of knee chondral defects, there remains little available research specifically investigating its use in the patellofemoral joint. PURPOSE To prospectively evaluate the clinical and radiologic outcome of MACI in the patellofemoral joint. STUDY DESIGN Case series; ...

This is the first study of adobe brick contamination anywhere in the world. Huancavelica, Peru is the site of historic cinnabar refining and one of the most mercury (Hg) contaminated urban areas in the world. Over 80% of homes in Huancavelica are constructed with adobe bricks made from Hg contaminated soil. In this study we measured total Hg concentrations in adobe brick, dirt floor, surface du...