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In the last few years, remarkable technological advances have been achieved in bridge engineering technology. These cover a wide spectrum of issues, ranging from design, maintenance, and rehabilitation methodologies to material and monitoring innovations. The Fourth New York City Bridge Conference was distinguished for its global impact. This book contains a selected number of papers that were presented at the conference. These papers are valu...

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Concerns about bridge safety and reliability go beyond geographical boundaries and are shared by bridge engineers from different countries. This book contains a number of selected papers that were presented at the Fifth New York City Bridge Conference, held on August 17-18, 2009. These papers cover a wide range of topics in the design, construction, maintenance, monitoring and rehabilitation of bridge structures.

Based on the many approaches available for dealing with large-scale systems (LSS), this book provides a rigorous framework for studying the analysis, stability, and control problems of LSS while addressing the dominating sources of difficulties due to dimensionality, information structure constraints, uncertainties, and time delays.

Due to significant economic growth in the last few decades, increasing traffic loads impose tremendous demand on bridge structures. This, coupled with ongoing deterioration of bridges, introduces a unique challenge to bridge engineers in maintaining service of these infrastructure assets without disruption to vital economic and social activities. This requires innovative solutions and optimized methodologies to achieve safe and efficient opera...

I am an Iranian living in Iran. I carry an Iranian birth certificate, national card and an Iranian passport and nothing else. I lived in America for some 12 years during the early 70s (1972) to the early 80s (1983), up until the political upheavals. The Iranian hostage crisis was when I was shipped back to my country. That was in 1983-84, when I came to an Iran in the beginnings of a revolution, an Islamic revolution, and Iran is still paying ...

I am an Iranian living in Iran. I carry an Iranian birth certificate, national card and an Iranian passport and nothing else. I lived in America for some 12 years during the early 70s (1972) to the early 80s (1983), up until the political upheavals. The Iranian hostage crisis was when I was shipped back to my country. That was in 1983-84, when I came to an Iran in the beginnings of a revolution, an Islamic revolution, and Iran is still paying ...

This textbook explains the principles of fuzzy systems in some depth together with information useful in realizing them within computational processes. The various algorithms and example problem solutions are a well-balanced and pertinent aid for research projects, laboratory work and graduate study. In addition to its worked examples, the book also uses end-of-chapter exercises as an instructional aid with a downloadable solutions manual avai...

Uncontrollable pain during childbirth is potentially a traumatic event. Such pain may have harmful physical and psychological effect on both the mother and the fetus. The life of laboring women and their newborns can be made safer by using the appropriate pharmacological as well as non-pharmacological pain relief measures. Massage is believed to be a simple, effective and safe method of support and relief for women during childbirth. However, ...

Financial reporting is a practice done by organizations for mainly two purposes first to be available to investors in order to check the revenues hence, decide upon the company they will invest in. The second purpose is to be submitted to tax authorities in order to impose the suitable tax amount according to the organization revenue.Since we are living in the technology era so as most of things that was affected by the internet, financial rep...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, British University in Dubai, language: English, abstract: Considering the importance of pragmatic competence, this paper analyzed the speech acts for requesting and apologizing strategies between native and non-native speakers of English. To analyze written discourse in the classrooms, four international secondary schools in D...

Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Computer Science - Applied, grade: none, , course: Information Technology , language: English, abstract: This thesis proposes a software description language to represent the source code of C++, Java, and VB.NET in the Extensible Markup Language. The similarity of semantics between these languages enables representing the source code in a form such that both, the source code and logic can be ea...

The main objective of this monograph is to develop efficient techniques for tackling the control problems of partially-known dynamical systems. This broad class of systems has a fundamental feature: Knowledge of the dynamic characteristics of the control plant is not complete. In one category, the missing knowledge is due to the unmodeled high-frequency parasitics (adaptive systems). In another category, some of the model parameters are unknow...

This book disscused the occupational exposure to metal dust particularly, Aluminium and Iron and its diverse effects on the lung.Dysplasia was detected in four individuals, all of them were cases particularly iron workers. Notably, there were 168 individuals with metaplasia, of whom, 77(59%) were identified among cases and the remaining 91(58%) were among controls, in the cases, metaplastic cells were found in Iron workers and 11 in Aluminum w...

A cutting-edge look at the emerging distributional theory of sorting Research on distributions associated with sorting algorithms has grown dramatically over the last few decades, spawning many exact and limiting distributions of complexity measures for many sorting algorithms. Yet much of this information has been scattered in disparate and highly specialized sources throughout the literature. In Sorting: A Distribution Theory, leading autho...

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of moulds that exert toxic effects on human and animals. Deoxynivalenol (DON) is part of the large group of toxic secondary fungal metabolites of Fusarium strains like Fusarium culmorum and Fusarium graminearum. They cause various plant diseases and contamination of grain with mycotoxins. Approximately 25% of the world's food crops are affected by mycotoxins. Deoxynivalenol cause inhibition of protein, DNA ...

This research was conducted during two successive seasons, 2002 as a first season in Egypt as one of Mediterranean countries and second season 2004 in Indonesia as one of tropical countries.The present research was designed to investigate and comparison the effect and response of rosemary plant to NPK fertilizers, compost, GA3 and biofertilizers on growth characters, some chemical composition, production and component of the oil. The results s...

This volume brings together updated fundamental knowledge of the schistosomes, their biology and epidemiology, the mechanism of disease and a full description of the pathological sequelae in humans. It concludes with chapters on diagnosis and treatment prospects of vaccine development and the most significant controversies regarding immunology and epidemiology.

This book explain the conditions in forming porous silicon and we compare the differences on porous formation using alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) conditions.The purpose of porous is to change energy gap and surface area of silicon substrate. By making porous on silicon substrate, the photodetector device will become more efficient than the normal silicon substrate. The basic idea of metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector ba...

Water-in-Crude oil emulsion stabilized by natural surface active components (such as asphaltene) are one of the major problems in relation to petroleum production.such problems : the corrosion of pipe work pumps production , equipment and downstream overhead distillation columns - the expense of pumping or transporting the water via pipeline or tanker - the problems associated with increased oil viscosity as a consequence of finely dispersed w...