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…

Work constitutes a relevant sphere in life: levels of competence, aptness, responsibility and productivity press on the worker in a pursuit of self-improvement. This research attempts to investigate the prevalence of Type A behavior pattern and dysfunctional attitudes, and the…

The aims of this paper were to calculate internal consistency of the Attitude toward Lesbian and Gay Men (ATLG) scale, to determine its factor structure, and to verify the equivalence of the factor structure pattern by gender. An incidental sample…

Several surveys have indicated that many data warehouses fail to meet business objectives or are outright failures. One reason for this is that requirement engineering is typically overlooked in real projects. This paper addresses data warehouse design from a business…

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…

We present point slicing, a new slicing technique for imperative programs that gives an answer to the question Which sentences can be executed if sentence p is executed?, very common in program testing, debugging, and understanding tasks and, as far…

As a contribution to consider software projects to be risk investments, it is important the full standardization of either the planning methodology (as a subset of project management methodology) and the effort estimation method. We think there is important and…

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…

El acuífero del Valle de Toluca, localizado en el Altiplano Mexicano, se encuentra sometido a una intensa explotación para cubrir las necesidades de agua en el propio valle, así como parte de las de Ciudad de México. Los altos niveles…