Green Buildings (GB) are practice of making structures that are environment friendly,
resources and energy efficient throughout the life cycle of structures. Life Cycle Cost
Assessment (LCCA) is a technique which is ...
The escalating energy requirements in edifices, especially in academic
establishments, emphasize the necessity for improved energy efficacy and sustainable
energy mechanisms. The EnergyPlus simulation software and ...
Reinforced concrete-framed structures are commonly preferred type of
buildings in Albania. Widely used types are two-way slab with beams, waffle, ribbed
slab and in last decades flat-slab type is getting more popular. ...
Over the last few years, the amount of damage caused by earthquakes has increased. Such examples are the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey, the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, the Haiti earthquake in 2010, the Nepal earthquake in ...
As the field of automation is moving forward at ever-faster rates, cell counting and
classification is an omnipresent yet repetitive task that would benefit greatly from this
field. The counting of contiguous cells in a ...
Image compression is an interesting field in image analysis that has been around for
quite a long time now. This field simply aims to reduce the image size and to maintain a good level of their reconstructed image. In the ...
With the Artificial Intelligence becoming more and more powerful in time, there is
a growing interest about scientists focusing in providing answers in the field of medical
image analysis. The importance of using AI in ...
Baggage inspection for threat objects using X-ray images is a priority task
that is in charge of making the risk of crime and terrorist attacks more reducible.
Nowadays, the checking of baggage is based on a semi-automated ...
Over the last years, there is a large number of studies focused in automatic facial
expression analysis because of its practical importance in many human-computer
interaction Systems. With the transition of facial ...
Breast cancer is one of the most widespread diseases around the world which
mostly leads to the death not only in women, but also men. The rapid development of
the technology and the disruption era, have contributed into ...
Nowadays, with the introduction of Graphics Processing Unit for general purpose
issues, not only graphical ones, there has been an increasing attention towards exploiting
GPU processing power for deep learning algorithms. ...
Bitcoin is a sort of computerized cash in which a record of exchanges is kept up and
new units of cash are produced by the computational arrangement of scientific issues, and
which works autonomously of a central bank. ...
With the improvement of living standards, the aging of society is increased. As
the population age, the number of people with cognitive disabilities is growing in
various regions of the world. In the context, the traditional ...
Medical image processing is a field of great interest, and improvements on this field have
made possible better and faster diagnosing of sick organs or tissues. This study’s main focus is the classification of healthy and ...
The unstoppable evolution that has affected mobile telecommunication systems in the
last three decades has caused the occupation of the licensed frequencies, but at the
same time these frequencies are not being used ...
Because of the high precision that they offer, CNNs represent a very important model for
systems that do image identification. However, such a task has high costs. For this reason, the current goal is to implement designs ...
Buildings made with unreinforced masonry (URN) are one of the most common kinds
of construction in the world. All of this building stock is vulnerable to destruction in
the event of an earthquake due to its poor capacity ...
The application of machine learning in everyday life is growing and extending to every aspect of life. Not only is it becoming more accurate but also is showing great improving results in many different industries. Nowadays ...
The study includes analyses of two school structures, one built with retaining
unreinforced masonry, where some structural problems because of the degradation of
masonry parameters over the years have been identified ...
Seismic performance evaluation plays a critical role in assessing the structural
integrity and safety of buildings, particularly in earthquake-prone regions such as
Albania. This study focuses on evaluating the seismic ...