Budapest Bridges Benchmarking

This paper is concerned with the comparison of different scaling methods which are applied to a complex bridge evaluation problem. It is shown that both tangible and intangible data and satisfaction of multiple criteria are essential to the success of such projects. Some new inconsistency measures for the matrices emerging in the decision making process are also used. A detailed numerical analysis of the results is presented.

Comparison of Employers’ and Student’s Ratings of Importance of Expected Technical Skills

Based on literature review and surveys conducted by the Faculty of Economics of Budapest Tech the importance ratings of the technical skills of American and Hungarian business students expected on entering employment are developed. The importance ratings of these technical skills are assessed by American and Hungarian employers also. The study compares the magnitudes of the importance of the single attributes and their priority rankings. Based on a comprehensive statistical analysis the major findings are also given.

The Use of the AHP in Civil Engineering Projects

Most engineering, economic, social and institutional decisions are made with explicit notions of optimal behavior and implicit human motivations. In such a process, manipulation of both tangible and intangible data and satisfaction of multiple criteria are essential to the success of decision-making. In this paper an approach to multiple-criteria decision making known as the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is presented. Some mathematical details of the procedure are briefly discussed. The application of the method to a real life civil engineering project for the selection of an appropriate bridge design is also presented.multi-criteria decision making, analytic hierarchy process, bridge design

Gyermek-kör. A gyermekmotívum a kortárs iráni filmben

Az iráni gyermekkor sajátossága abban rejlik, hogy gyermekhez nem hozzárendelhető funkciókat kényszerít rá az iszlámban vagy a történelmi helyzetben gyökerező társadalmi viszonyrendszer

Investigation of drug distribution in tablets using surface enhanced Raman chemical imaging

This paper reports the first application of surface enhanced Raman chemical imaging on pharmaceutical tablets containing the active ingredient (API) in very low concentrations.Taking advantage of the extremely intensive Raman signals in the presence of silver colloids,image aquisition time was radically decreased. Moreover, the investigation of drug distribution below the detection limit of regular micro-Raman spectrometry was made feasible. The characteristics of different manufacturing technologies could be revealed at very low API concentrations by using chemometric methods for processing and evaluating the large number of varying spectra provided with this imaging method

CONDITION MONITORING OF A LIGHTLY REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM BY DYNAMIC MEASUREMENTS

The paper deals with the assessment of damage in a lightly reinforced concrete beam using the measured values of the first natural frequency. The aim of the presented laboratory experiment was the experimental investigation of the relationship between the degree of cracking and the first natural frequency under defined deterioration conditions. As a result of the test, a definite relationship between the investigated parameters could be demonstrated