In order to apply HAZUS methodology to a real seismic risk study outside USA, the
Oslo municipality was chosen as study region. The civil institutions were asked for neccesary information and we were provided with different ASCII and Arcview files…

Este artículo propone que para una eficaz gestión de los recursos hídricos es también necesario incluir variables sociológicas que ayuden a comprender y explicar la concepción y comportamiento social en torno al agua. Con esta intención se presenta una metodología…

Este artículo presenta un estudio comparado de varios métodos de predicción de pausas, usando el mismo corpus etiquetado. Algunos métodos propuestos
por otras publicaciones sobre el tema son probados, combinando algunas técnicas
previas para aprovechar sus principales ventajas. Un nuevo…

En este artículo se presentan datos experimentales de resistencia a flexión y a compresión de morteros de cemento Portland con adición y sustitución de breas de petróleo y de alquitrán de carbón, que son subproductos de la industria del carbón…

A Matlab-based seismic risk tool has been developed and named RISKICG. This tool is
still in development, but it can provide damage results and economic losses for the
general building stock of a city or country and also for the…

A Matlab-based seismic risk tool has been developed and named HAZUSICG.
Obviously this tool is still in development but it can provided damage results for the
general building stock of a city or country and also for the essential facilities…

When performing vulnerability analysis and in absence of statistical data about vulnerability of some types of widespread buildings, unique structures, historical monuments etc, the development of numerical methods and approaches of evaluation and identification of vulnerability grade is shown as…

Software tools processing partially common set of data should share an understanding of what these data mean. Since ontologies have been used to express formally a shared understanding of information, we argue that they can be used to improve integration…

The fact that nutrition affects education outcomes is accepted by researchers and by policy makers. It is simple. Children cannot learn if they are hungry. The validity of the empirical approaches used to show a causal relationship from nutrition to…

The term “Federated Databases” refers to the data integration of distributed, autonomous and heterogeneous databases. However, a federation can also include information systems, not only databases. When integrating data, several issues must be addressed. Here, we focus on the problem…