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Dietlinde Köber, Felix Weber, Eugen Lozinca and Viorel Popa
Practical engineers should gain confidence in base isolation as an alternative to stiffening, a possible design approach for new as well as for existing buildings even under rare seismic conditions (in large corner period areas and for pulse-type seismic...
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Claudio Amadio, Luca Bomben and Salvatore Noè
In this work, a general method for the design of concentric braced steel frames (CBF) with active tension diagonal bracings, applicable to single- and multi-storey structures, is presented. The method is based on the use of an elastic modal analysis with...
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Yuanqiao Wen, Axel Hahn, Osiris Valdez Banda and Yamin Huang
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Idrees Alsolbi, Renu Agarwal, Bhuvan Unhelkar, Tareq Al-Jabri, Mahendra Samarawickrama, Siamak Tafavogh and Mukesh Prasad
Analysing and understanding donor behaviour in nonprofit organisations (NPOs) is challenging due to the lack of human and technical resources. Machine learning (ML) techniques can analyse and understand donor behaviour at a certain level; however, it rem...
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Ivana Bari?ic, Tihomir Dok?anovic and Matija Zvonaric
Digital image correlation (DIC) is a method of point displacement measurement by an optical system. If two cameras are used for capturing the same point displacement, three-dimensional data are obtained using the 3D-DIC method. The areas of application o...
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Nemanja Bralovic, Iva Despotovic and Danijel Kukaras
This paper presents the experimental analysis that was conducted on small-scale 1g physical models of piled raft foundation structures with a group of 2 × 2 piles in loose sand. The purpose of the piles was to reduce the settlement of the raft. The test ...
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Haijun Liu, Zhaoran Xiao and Kinman Lee
The nonlinear load-settlement behaviours of vertically loaded pile groups containing various numbers of piles (up to a few hundred piles in a group) are analysed using the method proposed by Lee and Xiao. This back-analysis method assumes the ?local shea...
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Hadee Mohammed Najm, Amer M. Ibrahim, Mohanad Muayad Sabri, Amer Hassan, Samadhan Morkhade, Nuha S. Mashaan, Moutaz Mustafa A. Eldirderi and Khaled Mohamed Khedher
In recent years, steel-concrete composite shear walls have been widely used in enormous high-rise buildings. Due to their high strength and ductility, enhanced stiffness, stable cycle characteristics and large energy absorption, such walls can be adopted...
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Victoria G. Carter and Md Jahir Rizvi
The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is subjected to various loads. In addition, the operation of fixed-wing aircraft presents unique structural requirements for the deck. This paper, therefore, compares the structural behaviour of a flight deck which ...
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Elena Doynikova, Evgenia Novikova and Igor Kotenko
Early detection of the security incidents and correct forecasting of the attack development is the basis for the efficient and timely response to cyber threats. The development of the attack depends on future steps available to the attackers, their goals...
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Sergei Mikhailov and Alexey Kashevnik
The tourism industry has been rapidly growing over the last years and IT technologies have had a great affect on tourists as well. Tourist behaviour analysis has been the subject of different research studies in recent years. This paper presents the digi...
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S. Montassir, K. Yakoubi, H. Moustabchir, A. Elkhalfi, Dipen Kumar Rajak and Catalin I. Pruncu
For a long time, cracked structures have triggered various researchers to develop a structural integrity approach and design models to address the fracture problems. In the present study, a pipeline with an axial semi-elliptical surface defect was examin...
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Ifuero Osad Osamwonyi,Godfrey Ayegbeni Audu
Pág. 357 - 373
This study investigates the long term relationship between the behaviour of stock markets during the 2008 crisis and some selected international macroeconomic variables using information from January 2005 to December 2015. The procedures of the Autoregre...
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Elie NGONGANG
Pág. 281 - 294
JEL. C20, F20, F30.
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Ebunoluwa Bimbola Akinrata
Construction industry is one of the main drivers of financial development in numerous countries not leaving out Nigeria. The industry faces a long rundown of ethics/moral difficulties identified with practices from its professionals. So therefore, the su...
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Natália Costa, César Silva and Paulo Ferreira
In recent years, increasing attention has been devoted to cryptocurrencies, owing to their great development and valorization. In this study, we propose to analyse four of the major cryptocurrencies, based on their market capitalization and data availabi...
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Priscilla Nduku Wangai, Amos Njuguna, Joseph Ngugi
Pág. 129 - 136
Under capitation health scheme, a member freely selects a health facility from which to seek health services. There is no restriction of the number of times a member seeks health services from the facility within the contract period. This has affected de...
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Sungyong Park, Hyuntaek Lim, Bibek Tamang, Jihuan Jin, Seungjoo Lee, Sukhyun Chang and Yongseong Kim
A real-scale slope failure model experiment is performed to analyze the movement behavior of the slope during failure, and the results are analyzed through the x?MR control chart method, along with inverse displacement and various analysis sections such ...
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Nuraisyah Chua Abdullah,Herwina Rosnan,Norzayana Yusof
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Malaysia is among the chosen countries for medical tourism due to its excellent healthcare services. Nevertheless, there are concerns if service providers are balancing the local and foreign patient?s demands. Due to the lack of discussion on medical pra...
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Andreas Kanavos, Stavros Anastasios Iakovou, Spyros Sioutas and Vassilis Tampakas
In this manuscript, we present a prediction model based on the behaviour of each customer using data mining techniques. The proposed model utilizes a supermarket database and an additional database from Amazon, both containing information about customers...
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