The PVM is a system for distributed processing implementations that offers tools for communication between tasks, like point to point messages and broadcasts, and tools to control the spawning of tasks. It was chosen due to the simplicity it allows in the implementation of message exchanges between the agents, and because it allows the definition of which workstation a process must run. Besides...

Shifts in the culture of civic engagement, technologies and practices surrounding social media, and pressure from political leaders have ignited a movement amongst gov’t agencies to extend their efforts for obtaining input on public issues. These projects face serious challenges related to scale of participation and political capture, though collaborative efforts elsewhere suggest we may be abl...

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INTRODUCTION According to Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995), the majority of the organizational knowledge comes from interactions between people. People tend to reuse solutions from other persons in order to gain productivity. When people communicate to exchange information or acquire knowledge, the process is named Collaboration. Collaboration is one of the most important tasks for innovation and com...

The writers are congratulated for developing analytical approximations to Einstein integrals herein INT1 and INT2 . It was stated by the writers in their technical note that these algorithms can be incorporated into professional hydraulic software, and the discussers agree on this. However, it is pointed out here that the calculation of INT1 and INT2 can be easily incorporated more directly by ...

The writer presents a parametric study devoted to investigate the behavior of nonprismatic members having T-sections by using three-dimensional ~3D! finite-element models ~FEMs!. Fixed-end moments and stiffness coefficients were computed from the 3DFEMs considering thrust effects. As a result of the parametric study, the writer proposed a practical modeling technique based on two-noded beam ele...

Edoardo Cosenza; Fiorenzo De Cicco, Ph.D.; and Andrea Prota Full Professor, Dept. of Structural Engineering, Univ. of Naples “Federico II”, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy. E-mail: cosenza@ unina.it Dept. of Structural Engineering, Univ. of Naples “Federico II”, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples, Italy. E-mail: [email protected] Assistant Professor, Dept. of Structural Engineering, Univ....

Introduction During the Workshop "Pharmacokinetics: Defining the Dose for Risk Assessment," two panel discussions were held. The first was "Design of Studies to Obtain Pharmacokinetic Data for Risk Assessment." Emil Pfitzer of HoffmannLa Roche, Inc.; James Stevens of Ciba-Geigy Corporation;Penelope FennerCrisp of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Pesticides Program; and Daniel Menzel of ...