Nine bored piles were built at the National Geotechnical Experimentation Sites at Texas A&M University: five at the sand site and four at the clay site. The piles had a nominal diameter of 0.915 m and varied in length from ...

Background We previously introduced a classification system for patients with localized pancreatic adenocarcinoma that integrates assessments of tumor anatomy, cancer biology, and patient physiology. By means of this ...

Purpose – This paper seeks to identify and propose a standard approach for the selection and optimization of fuzzy sets used in fuzzy decision‐making systems. Design/methodology/approach – The design was based on two ...

The construction industry in Lebanon has witnessed a boom especially after July, 2006 war. The need to construct a large number of private and public constructions provoked very important questions. Are the construction ...

Enormous amounts of data collected from social networks or other online platforms are being published publicly for the sake of statistics, marketing, and research, among other objectives. The consequent privacy and data ...

With the great growth of wireless devices and communication, there is a huge demand for higher data rates. To respond to this growing demand, fourth generation (4G) wireless Local Area Networks (LANs) might adopt cooperation ...

Candida albicans is a common opportunistic pathogen that causes a wide variety of diseases in a human immunocompromised host leading to death. In a pathogen, cell wall proteins are important for stability as well as for ...

This paper estimates the demand for electricity in Lebanon by employing three modeling techniques namely OLS, ARIMA and exponential smoothing for the time span January 1995 to December 2005. In- sample forecasts reveal ...

This paper briefly describes and evaluates SICOS, a tool for Social Image Cluster-based Organization and Search, allowing to group together images sharing similar semantic and visual features, to simplify their organization ...

Countries in the MENA region have experienced a peculiar pattern of development along a persistent resistance to democratization. Left and right views advanced interpretations that hold post-colonial national arrangements ...