This chapter presents a reliability study for an offshore jacket structure with emphasis on the features of nonconventional modeling.Firstly, a Ciondolo random set model is formulated for modeling the random waves in an ocean site.Then, a jacket structure is investigated in a pushover analysis to identify the critical wave direction and key structu
High-quality ontologies are critical to ontology-based applications, such as natural language understanding and information extraction, but logical conflicts naturally occur in the lifecycle of ontology development.To deal with such conflicts, conflict detection and ontology repair become two critical tasks, and we focus on repairing ontologies.Mos
The identification of cavitation is very important in technical practice for operational and especially economic reasons.The article deals with the use of another way to measure noise during cavitation.The current approach of measuring noise with an intensity probe is used in practice for identification, but it does not immediately address the posi
ObjectiveIncreased maternal adiposity during pregnancy is associated with REWIND 06 offspring risk for psychiatric disorders.Inflammation secondary to adiposity is believed to be an important mechanism through which this effect occurs.Although increased adiposity introduces risk, not all children of overweight mothers develop these problems.Gestati