The use of a single set of outriggers equipped with oil viscous dampers increases the damping ratio of tall buildings in about 6–10%, depending on the loading conditions. However, could this ratio be further increased by ...

Building sector consumes a greater portion of energy for heating and cooling applications. The utilization of fossil fuels for space and water heating in buildings cause a negative effect on the environment by producing ...

Is the value spread useful for forecasting returns on quantitative equity strategies for country selection? To test this, we examine a sample of 120 country-level equity strategies replicated within 72 stock markets for ...

In this research, a genetic programming (GP) method is proposed for producing pseudorandom number generators (PRNG) for lightweight devices, especially wireless identification and sensing platform (WISP) family devices. ...

Effects of chitosan coating combined with sumac on the quality of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fillets stored in refrigerated condition (4°C) for 12 days were evaluated. The treatments in this study were—T1, control; ...

In the software engineering, we use the words 'evolution', 'improvement', 'enhancement', 'development', 'change' or 'maintenance' to emphasize the activities after the delivery of a software product. These isomorphic words ...

This article focuses on reducing a charging cost for electric vehicles (EVs). A charging strategy is proposed to minimize the charging cost of EVs within the charging station constraints. © 2018 IEEE.

Electroencephalography (EEG) classification for mental tasks is the crucial part of the braincomputer interface. Many studies try to extract discriminative features from EEG signals. In this study, feature selection algorithm ...

Hybrid systems, which use more than one renewable energy sources, are quite advantageous, because they can eliminate or at least vitiate the interrupted characteristics of the renewable sources. In the present study, a ...

This paper presents faster inversion-free point addition formulas for the curve y(1 + ax2) = cx(1 + dy2). The proposed formulas improve the point doubling operation count record (I, M, S, D, a are arithmetic operations ...