We analyse data from a study involving 173 pregnant women. The data are observed values of the beta human chorionic gonadotropin hormone measured during the first 80 days of gestational age, including from one up to six ...

Seismic isolation of high-rise buildings presents an opportunity but also a challenge to seismic isolation, a technique mostly used in the past in low and moderate-rise buildings. It turns out that under certain conditions ...

The behavior of buildings when subjected to severe seismic events, that force them to enter in the non-linear range is studied. Using simple three-dimensional models of structures, the influence that several parameters ...

In this paper we use a non parametric model to evaluate the performance of the justice in the provincial jurisdictions of Argentina. In order to obtain a ranking of the analyzed units, we apply the model DEA (Data Envelopment ...

Recently proposed capacity-based damage indices and parametric models for capacity curves are applied to frame steel buildings located in soft soils of the Mexico City. To do that, the seismic performance of 2D models of ...

The main motivation of this work is to investigate the use of techniques to identify nonlinear dynamical systems using NARMAX polynomial models. Such models are parametric input-output structures able to represent dynamic ...

In this work, non-linear analyses of reinforced concrete plates are performed by using a BEM formulation, based on Kirchhoff's theory, which has already proved to be a robust technique to deal with plate problems. The ...

In this work, non-linear analyses of reinforced concrete plates are performed by using a BEM formulation, based on Kirchhoff's theory, which has already proved to be a robust technique to deal with plate problems. The ...