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Julián Pulecio-Díaz, Miguel Sol-Sánchez and Fernando Moreno-Navarro
Roller-compacted concrete (RCC) pavements have been the subject of studies focused on their increasing deterioration over time due to the influence of vehicular loading and ambient factors in humidity and temperature conditions ranging from medium to low...
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Naveed Ahmad, Muhammad Rizwan, Babar Ilyas, Sida Hussain, Muhammad Usman Khan, Hamna Shakeel and Muhammad Ejaz Ahmad
The paper discusses how joint damage and deterioration affect the seismic response of existing reinforced concrete frames with sub-standard beam?column joints. The available simplified modeling techniques are critically reviewed to propose a robust, yet ...
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Yenny Alexandra Paredes-Astudillo, Jairo R. Montoya-Torres and Valérie Botta-Genoulaz
In traditional scheduling problems, job processing times are considered constant and known in advance. This assumption is, however, a simplification when it comes to hand-intensive real-life production contexts because workers usually induce variability ...
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Anton V. Shafrai, Larisa V. Permyakova, Dmitriy M. Borodulin and Irina Y. Sergeeva
Various methods are used to prevent the deterioration of the biotechnological properties of brewer?s yeast during storage. This paper studied the use of artificial neural networks for the mathematical modeling of correcting the biosynthetic activity of b...
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Javed Akhtar, Ahmad Sana, Syed Mohammed Tauseef and Hitoshi Tanaka
The Sultanate of Oman is an arid country in the Arabian Peninsula suffering from insufficient freshwater supplies and extremely hot weather conditions. The only source of recharge is rainfall, which is scarce and varies with space and time, for the aquif...
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Seyed Amirhossein Hosseini and Omar Smadi
One of the most important components of pavement management systems is predicting the deterioration of the network through performance models. The accuracy of the prediction model is important for prioritizing maintenance action. This paper describes how...
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Christos Mattas, Lamprini Dimitraki, Pantazis Georgiou and Panagiota Venetsanou
Due to the fact of water resource deterioration from human activities and increased demand over the last few decades, optimization of management practices and policies is required, for which more reliable data are necessary. Cost and time are always of i...
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Seyed Amirhossein Hosseini, Ahmad Alhasan and Omar Smadi
This paper describes the process and outcome of deterioration modeling for three different pavement types (asphalt, concrete, and composite) in the state of Iowa. Pavement condition data is collected by the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) and sto...
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Reem Ahmed, Tarek Zayed and Fuzhan Nasiri
Healthcare facilities are constantly deteriorating due to tight budgets allocated to the upkeep of building assets. This entails the need for improved deterioration modeling of such buildings in order to enforce a predictive maintenance approach that dec...
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Pankaj Kumar, Brian Alan Johnson, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Ram Avtar, Shamik Chakraborty, Masayuki Kawai and Damasa B. Magcale-Macandog
Due to the cumulative effects of rapid urbanization, population growth and climate change, many inland and coastal water bodies around the world are experiencing severe water pollution. To help make land-use and climate change adaptation policies more ef...
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