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Static and dynamic axial crushing of spot-welded thin-walled composite steel–CFRP square tubes
(2009)
Thin-walled metallic tubular components have long been adopted in the transportation industries, where the stable energy absorbing crushing process provides protection to occupants and cargo in the event of a collision. ...
Urban Low-Income Housing in Developing Countries: Case Study, Kenya.
(Carlifornia, 2009)
System Overflow/Blocking Transients For Queues with Batch Arrivals Using a Family of Polynomials Resembling Chebyshev Polynomials
(2009)
The paper shows that in the analysis of a queuing system with fixed-size batch arrivals, there emerges a set of polynomials which are a generalization of Chebyshev polynomials of the second kind. The paper uses these ...
Theoretical underpinnings of Urban Sprawl; in search of a universal theory of the 21st century urban management challenge
(2009)
Urban sprawl is a phenomenon which characterizes all urban spaces both in MDCs and LDCs. Managing the problems associated with urban
sprawl, especially in LDCs, is, however, mind boggling, hence, the very reason why the ...
The Impacts of organisational culture in the performance of land administration institutions
(2009)
Land as a resource and factor of production plays a major role in the development of a country. The management and administration of land is
done through structures and processes that are governed by the existing institutional ...
Reality effects on the human development paradigm in sub-saharan Africa
(2009)
The Paper argues that humanity should be at the centre of development. People should be involved in the design, implementation of local development
projects. The paper also advocates for the decentralisation of authority ...
A designer and principles of cloth design
(2009)
There are many practices of design for example fashion, graphics, industrial and environmental among others. These are all use the same principles,
elements and theories. This paper endeavours to define the role of a ...
BIP-Based Alarm Declaration and Clearing in SONET Networks Employing Automatic Protection Switching
(2009)
The paper examines the performance of bit-interleaved parity (BIP) methods in error rate monitoring, and in declaration and clearing of alarms in those transport networks that employ automatic protection switching (APS). ...
Frame and Burst Acquisition in TDMA Satellite Communication Networks with Transponder Hopping
(2009)
The paper presents frame and burst acquisition in a satellite communication network based on time division multiple access (TDMA) in which the transmissions may be carried on different transponders. A unique word pattern ...
Performance of Block Codes Using the Eigenstructure of the Code Correlation Matrix and Soft-Decision Decoding of BPSK
(2009)
A method is presented for obtaining the error
probability for block codes. The method is based on the eigenvalue-
eigenvector properties of the code correlation matrix. It is found that
under a unary transformation and ...