Improving the Predictability of Hiley Pile Driving Formula in the Quality Control of the Pile Foundation

Pile Dynamic Formulas are the oldest and frequently used method to determine bearing capacity of piles. The more recent method is based on the Wave Equation analysis and different formulations such as Case Mathod, TNO, CAPWAP and TEPWAP which were developed for pre-driving analysis and post-driving measurements applications. The major factors for the common use of the dynamic formulas have been due to their simplicity, cost effectiveness and applicability in various piling situations. However, in some literature the energy approach have been given an unfair reputation as being unreliable and less accurate than the more analytical or dynamic testing methods. One of the issues due to the poor performance of the dynamic formulas is that, historically, the hammer energy and the energy trasferred to pile had to be assumed. Nevertheless, with the advent of computers, new technologies are emerging with the advancement in construction industry. This has produced gradual improvements that have resulted in the dynamic method to be used on many projects with greater reliability. In this paper, a review of the different testing methods as well as pros and cons of the pile driving formulas are discussed. Also, an approach to improving the widely used Hiley dynamic equation is presented. This approach enables evaluation of the pile capacity to be made more accurately.

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Emerging Medical Technologies for Fighting COVID-19: Prevention, Testing, and Treatment (Preprint)

10.2196/preprints.30344 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Zhuo Zhao ◽

Rui Li ◽

Yangmyung Ma ◽

Iman Islam ◽

Abdul M. Azam Rajper ◽

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Keyword(s):

Personal Protective Equipment ◽

Social Impact ◽

New Technologies ◽

Protective Equipment ◽

Rapid Rise ◽

Testing Methods ◽

Medical Treatments ◽

The Public ◽

Medical Technologies ◽

Equipment Testing

UNSTRUCTURED During COVID-19, the clinical and healthcare demands have been on the rapid rise. Major challenges to addressing the pandemic include a lack of testing kits and shortages of ventilators to treat severe cases of COVID-19, insufficient accessibility to personal protective equipment for both hospitals and the public. New technologies have been developed by scientists, researchers, and companies in response to these demands. In this paper, 90 news articles and scientific reports on COVID-19-related innovations during 2020-2021 were screened and shortlisted to form a pool of candidates yielding a total of 20 publications for review which were then categorized into three sections: personal protective equipment, testing methods, and medical treatments. Each study was analyzed for its engineering characteristics and potential social impact on the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the guidelines for future disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment were summarized and discussed.

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Study on Temperament of Scholastically Backward Children

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0402.077 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Dr. Jitendra Mugali ◽

Dr. Nitin Pattanashetty ◽

Dr. S S Chate ◽

Dr. N M Patil ◽

Dr. Sandeep Patil ◽

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Keyword(s):

Statistical Analysis ◽

Early Detection ◽

Poor Performance ◽

Final Diagnosis ◽

School Refusal ◽

The Other ◽

Scholastic Performance ◽

Major Factors ◽

Drop Outs ◽

Psychiatric Problems

Objectives: 1.To studies the categorical prevalence of temperament of scholastically backward children. 2. To study the associated Psychiatric problems with type of temperament in scholastically backward children. Material and Methods: Total of 1480 children studying in 3 CBSE schools, aged between 6 and 12 years were screened. 312 children were found to scholastically backward. After simple randomization and further screening procedure 115 children were included in the study. Each child was assessed by interviewing with MINI-KID Questionnaire, temperament assessment scale, I Q assessment by using Reven’s coloured progressive matrices, CBCL and final diagnosis done by ICD DCR criteria. Statistical analysis was done using Epi Info 7 software. Results: The prevalence of scholastically backwardness was found to be 21.08%. The distribution of scholastically backward children belongs to falling types of temperament found to be easy temperament-41.74 %, difficult temperament 13.91 % and slow to warm temperament 44.35% respectively. Majority of scholastically backward children belongs to slow to warm type of temperament. All the difficult temperament children were associated with one or the other psychiatric problems. 18.75% of children with easy temperament and 74.51% of children with slow to warm are associated with psychiatric problems. Conclusion: Temperament of a child is one of the major factors for scholastic performance. Some children do poor performance in academics, school refusal and school drop outs. Prevalence of difficult temperament in children had associated with 100% psychiatric disorder. Difficult temperament children handling in home and in school is very difficult, so early detection of associated psychiatric problems and early intervention will surely help to handle the further consequences.

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Comprehensive study of software testing: Categories, levels, techniques, and types

10.36227/techrxiv.12578714.v2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mubarak Albarka Umar

Keyword(s):

Software Testing ◽

Software Quality ◽

Testing Methods ◽

Development Lifecycle ◽

Software Development Lifecycle ◽

Pros And Cons ◽

Testing Techniques ◽

Combination Of Methods ◽

The Right ◽

Comprehensive Study

<p><i>Software Testing is the process of evaluating a software program to ensure that it performs its intended purpose. Software testing verifies the safety, reliability, and correct working of software. The growing need for quality software makes software testing a crucial stage in Software Development Lifecycle. There are many methods of testing software, however, the choice of method to test a given software remains a major problem in software testing. Although, it is often impossible to find all errors in software, employing the right combination of methods will make software testing efficient and successful. Knowing these software testing methods is the key to making the right selection. This paper presents a comprehensive study of software testing methods. An explanation of Testing Categories was presented first, followed by Testing Levels (and their comparison), then Testing Techniques (and their comparison). For each Testing Levels and Testing Techniques, examples of some testing types and their pros and cons were given with a brief explanation of some of the important testing types. Furthermore, a clear and distinguishable explanation of two confused and contradictory terms (Verification and Validation) and how they relate to Software Quality was provided.</i></p>

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The Pros & Cons of Business Innovation at IT Organizations

Shanlax International Journal of Management ◽

10.34293/management.v7i1.541 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 82-85

Author(s):

Geetha Swaminathan

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Machine Learning ◽

Information Technology ◽

Cloud Computing ◽

New Technologies ◽

Global Market ◽

Innovative Product ◽

Business Innovation ◽

It Organization ◽

Pros And Cons

In the 21st Century, the buzzword is often used in all fields is “Innovation". It is no wonder using Innovation in day to the conversation as well as striving for innovation execution at organisations in Information Technology (IT) sectors. When we need to talk about innovation in IT sectors in the fast-moving technology IT organisations, they are in a position in increasing its capability in its innovative product and services. There is a lot of benefits out of business innovations that are being reaped in IT companies; there are apparent disadvantages are also the outcome of them. It is quite common, despite all benefits and drawbacks, they are in apposition to survive in the global market. That becomes a great challenge to all IT organisations. In IT organisations which consist of departments such as Development, Testing, Consulting, Networking, Infrastructure, Process and having common platforms and legacy languages, Apart from that they are in the way of invading new technologies such as Digital, Mobile, IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning Cloud computing. In all the fields, as mentioned above and area, they need to do innovation to sustain their business. This paper will provide elaborate results on Pros and Cons of Business Innovation in IT Organization.

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Open Source Software Usage in Education and Research

Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development - Handbook of Research on Engineering Education in a Global Context ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3395-5.ch028 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 331-345

Author(s):

Samih M. Jammoul ◽

Vladimir V. Syuzev ◽

Ark M. Andreev

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Information Technology ◽

Engineering Education ◽

Open Source ◽

Open Source Software ◽

New Technologies ◽

Academic Education ◽

Engineering Majors ◽

Network Traffic Analysis ◽

Pros And Cons

Information technology and telecommunication is considered a new and quickly evolving branch of science. New technologies and services in IT and telecommunications impose successive changes and updates on related engineering majors, especially in practical qualification that includes using software facilities. This chapter aims to join the efforts to spread the use of open source software in academic education. The chapter consists of two main sections. The first presents the trend of using open source software in higher education and discusses pros and cons of using open source software in engineering education. The second section presents network traffic analysis as an example of recent effective research topics and provides a set of open source tools to perform the research's practical steps. The research example with the suggested tools is valid as practical lab work for telecommunication and IT-related majors.

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Foreign Direct Investment in Nepal

NUTA Journal ◽

10.3126/nutaj.v5i1-2.23457 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (1-2) ◽

pp. 48-55

Author(s):

Biraj Pyakurel

Keyword(s):

Foreign Direct Investment ◽

Direct Investment ◽

New Technologies ◽

Market Access ◽

Location Factors ◽

Host Countries ◽

Goods And Services ◽

Management Techniques ◽

Major Factors ◽

Market Infrastructure

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is an important source of capital for economic growth in developing countries. It provides a package which constitutes new technologies, management techniques, finance and market access for the production and movement of goods and services. However, attracting FDI is a major challenge for host countries as it faces the challenge of identifying the major factors that motivate and affect the FDI location decision. The main FDI location factors are cost, market infrastructure, and technological, political, legal and socio-cultural factors. Despite several conflicting circumstances, Nepal is attempting to sort out overarching issues of FDI concerning with economic development. That’s why Nepal is at a point where from it can excel for economic goals via FDI. The set trends illustrate that various indicators pertaining to FDI in the country has been improving since peace process was begun in 2006. This analysis comes to conclusions that the country owns unique advantages and, thereby, opportunities of FDI useful for the country’s prosperity. Yet FDI in the country is not free of challenges, thus, that need to be timely addressed with prudent measures.

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Computer-aided design and Computer-aided engineering

MATEC Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/matecconf/201817001115 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 170 ◽

pp. 01115 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alexander Kolbasin ◽

Oksana Husu

Keyword(s):

Computer Aided Design ◽

High Performance ◽

New Technologies ◽

Production Systems ◽

Computer Aided Engineering ◽

Qualified Personnel ◽

Computer Aided ◽

Major Factors ◽

Engineering Modeling ◽

Aided Design

In modern industrial production some of the major factors of successful development include: cost reduction of the production, im-provement of its quality, as well as help to minimise the time in market en-try. Computer-aided design and Computer-aided engineering (CAD / CAE - systems) are the most effective for implementation of these requirements. Possible use of this engineering modeling simulation in conjunction with the power and speed of high performance computing could reduce costs and time of each cycle of designing, and also significantly reduce devel-opment time. The introduction of new technologies, the use of high quality products and engagement of qualified personnel would allow businesses and organizations to get on a path of innovative development of design and production systems.

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