One of the most critical steps towards landslide risk analysis is the determination of element at risk.Element at risk describes any object that could potentially fail or exposed to hazards during disaster.Without quantification of element at risk information, it is difficult to estimate risk.This paper aims at developing a methodology to extract a
Cooled Pads for Tilting-Pad Journal Bearings
Tilting-pad Yeast Extract journal bearings (TPJBs) are widely installed in rotating machines owing to their high stability, but some drawbacks can be noted, such as higher cost with respect to cylindrical journal bearings and thermal issues.High temperatures in the pads correspond to low oil-film thicknesses and large thermal deformations in the pa
Digital Etiquette and Its Specification (Philosophical and Methodological Aspect)
Introduction.Digital etiquette is a new type of etiquette that defines the rules of behavioral culture in CHAMOMILE the digital environment of the Internet.It is also shown that digital etiquette is not only a new type of communicative interaction, but also is one of the new socio-cultural phenomena of digital civilization, as well as modern conver
When work disappears, crime appears: a political economy analysis of urban crime in Edo State Nigeria
This paper is a theoretical construct which used data collected from the Edo State Police crime index from 2002 to 2011 to show crime trend in the state.The paper uses the Marxist perspective to argue that rapid urbanization and the depleting of the rural areas have elevated the level of crime from petty to a level of sophistication that the presen
The evolution of hierarchically structured communication
Human language sentences are standardly understood as exhibiting considerable hierarchical structure: they can and typically do contain parts that in turn contain parts, etc.In other words, sentences are thought to generally exhibit significant nested part-whole structure.As far as we can tell, this is not a feature of the gestural or vocal communi