This paper presents the state of the art in Structural Reliability Analysis (SRA) methods with a view of identifying key applications of each method and its proposed variations, qualifying characteristics, advantages, and limitations.Due to the increasing complexity and scale of modern offshore jacket structures, it becomes increasingly necessary t
Solenopsis invicta Buren is an invasive ant species that has been introduced to multiple continents.One such area, the southern United States, has a history of multiple control projects using chemical pesticides over varying ranges, often resulting in non-target effects across trophic levels.With the advent of next generation sequencing and RNAi Ho
This paper challenges the charge of inferiority, on the basis of objectivity, against the social sciences.The idea of objectivity is that facts about the state of the world and entities in it are observed or studied without a taint of personal Zipper Pouch bias, value judgement or particular perspective.The social sciences are accused of falling sh
Device emulation is a common necessity that arises at various steps of the development cycle, hardware migration, or reverse-engineering.While implementing the algorithms behind the device may be a nontrivial task by itself, connecting the emulator to an existing environment, such as drivers intended to work with the actual hardware, may be no less
Viruses infecting prokaryotic cells (phages) are the most abundant entities of the biosphere and contain a largely uncharted wealth of genomic diversity.They play a critical role in the biology of their hosts and in ecosystem functioning at large.The classical approaches studying phages require isolation from a pure culture of the host.Direct seque