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…

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…

THE CONSTRUCTION OF MAPS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IS SHOWN BASED IN THE JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION DURING THE PERIOD 1988-2005. THE ANALYSIS IS MADE BY: (I) AUTHORS THAT PRODUCE THE MOST WITHIN THE PUBLICATION, (II) AUTHORS WITH THE GREATEST CENTRALITY AND…

Das palomas, sin historia experimental, fueron expuestas a una situación de autosnol¬deamiento donde una señal de 0.2 segundos precedió a la entrega de comida. Usando un intervalo entre reforzadores constante de 32 segundos, se varió sistemáticamente el inter¬valo señal-reforzador. Se…

Our group in the Psychology Department at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) developed a rat genetic model of extreme freezing in response to contextual cues in an experimental chamber previously associated with footshock. One of the lines,…