... requirements for cores need only be met at the age when thestructure will be subject to design loads CHAPTER 8 DETERMININGANEQUIVALENT f c ′ VALUEFOREVALUATINGTHESTRUCTURALCAPACITYOFANEXISTING ... test based on the Student’s t distribution (Benjamin and Cornell 1970; Ang and Tang 1975) can be performed The test statistic t for testing the hypothesis that the mean values ofthe underlying ... include the ratio of length to diameter ofthe specimen, the diameter, the moisture condition at the time of testing, the presence of reinforcement or other inclusions, and the direction of coring...
... of nanotubes [20,21] Thus, the spreading of CuO and formation of CuO layer on the nanochannel surface of AAO and the confinement offered by AAO nanochannels play a key role in the formation of ... patterns ofthe CuS nanowire and CuO nanotube HRTEM images of CuS nanowire (b), and CuO nanotube (d) A hypothesis forthe formation mechanism of CuO nanotubes from CuS nanowires was that, at ... discussion ofthe results and helped shape the final manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Page of 14 Zhang WX, Ding SX, Yang ZH, Liu AP, Qian YT, Tang SP, Yang SH: “Growth of...
... (s)/he can make the observance ofthe maxims or non-observance ofthe maxims as the following examples: Husband: Where are the car keys? Wife: Theyre on the table in the hall (61: 64) The wife ... always consists of a first part and a second part The utterance of a first part immediately creates an expectation ofthe utterance of a second part ofthe same pair There is a class of first pair ... cases, one ofthe responses is termed the preferred response and the other the dispreferred response The preferred is the structurally expected next act and the dispreferred is the structurally...
... ofthe triglyceride making an alkyl ester bond and an anion of diglyceride The diglyceride anion deprotonates the Na+ ion and further reactions continue until all three fatty acid chains ofthe ... Healthcare, Bucks, England, UK) between the wavelengths of 400 and 700 nm in increments of 10 nm The peak absorption of light in the red portion ofthe spectrum was between 650 and 680 nm, and light at ... lakes and rivers to the point of being “nuisance species” [8] Harvesting of these algae from shoreline areas of lakes (e.g., Lake Michigan, USA) could be an option for additional sources of biofuel...
... daily events and phenomena to express the abstract sense thanks to the means of metaphor, simile 0% 0% In the same transference of meaning of metaphor, “Metaphor is the transference of meaning (name) ... life These are the results: In short, in this chapter, we have described and analyzed the Firstly, in term of semantics, in the total of groups of semantic and syntactic features of English and ... due to the limited sources of meaning ofan idiom and learning its derivation is an effective way to examples serving as the data forthe study, some parts ofthe study teach an idiom and a potential...
... ground for plastic waste mostly from industrialized countries like Canada, Denmark, Germany, U.K, the Netherlands, Japan, France, and the United States of America According to the government of India, ... 85,00,000 force in 1997 projected the polymers demand in the country Table documents the demand of different polymers in India during years 1995-96, 2001-02, and 2006-07 The comparison of demand and ... solved in the near future The present issues are the necessary scale up, minimization of waste handling costs and production cost, and optimization of gasoline range products for a wide range of plastic...
... dependency performance forthe C&C parser vs CCGbank conversion PARSE VAL scores The lack of a strong correlation, and the spread on the line x = 100, supports the theory that these sentences ... absolute) Many ofthe remaining errors relate to missing and extra clause nodes and a range of rare structures, such as QPs, NACs, and NXs The only other prominent errors are single word spans, e.g ... that the performance ofthe CCG parsers is approaching that ofthe Petrov parser Conclusion By exploiting the generalised combinators ofthe CCG formalism, we have developed a new method of converting...
... with the accuracy ofthe land registry The IPA gives the holder powers of act on behalf ofthe land owner in the use and transaction ofthe property and the facility to legalize the transaction The ... in the West Bank and five in Gaza by the Ministry of Planning as part ofthe Land Administration Project funded by the World Bank and the Government of Finland It is part ofthe larger Public and ... Dispossession of Palestinian Homes (December 1999) The Humanitarian Impact on Palestinians of Israeli Settlements and Other Infrastructure in the West Bank, UN Office forthe Coordination of Humanitarian...
... with the accuracy ofthe land registry The IPA gives the holder powers of act on behalf ofthe land owner in the use and transaction ofthe property and the facility to legalize the transaction The ... in the West Bank and five in Gaza by the Ministry of Planning as part ofthe Land Administration Project funded by the World Bank and the Government of Finland It is part ofthe larger Public and ... Dispossession of Palestinian Homes (December 1999) The Humanitarian Impact on Palestinians of Israeli Settlements and Other Infrastructure in the West Bank, UN Office forthe Coordination of Humanitarian...
... fitting and Rday accounts forthe release of CO2 in the light by processes other than photorespiration The non-linear regression coefficients of determination explained > 95% ofthe variation in the Anet ... reflectance, and transmittance [6] The SPAD value is related to chlorophyll content and leaf greenness, where a silicon photodiode measures the ratio of transmittance through the leaf tissue for ... absorption (%) within the photosynthetic 400 to 700 nm wavelength range for American chestnut Means (n = 10) are hatched for irrigated and solid for drought treatment The means followed by the same letter...
... methadone, and buprenorphine brought about the development of a cross tolerance to morphine in the offspring of rats Methods Animals Pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats (BioLASCO Taiwan Co., Ltd) and their offspring ... at age 8-12 weeks (A) The latency and the AUC ofthe first morphine, methadone, or buprenorphine injection (B) The latency and the AUC ofthe 3rd morphine and methadone or the 2nd buprenorphine ... restrainer forfor adaption before the tail-flick test was performed To measure the analgesic effect of opioid agonists, animals were subjected to the tail-flick procedure once a day to minimize the...
... both the RNA encoding the target protein (Btk PH-GFP-IN) and the probe (IC peptide conjugated QD655) Importantly, this new band overlaps with the QD signal The smeary appearance ofthe band in the ... significant increase in size In fact, the large size of some ofthe protein-QD conjugates combined with their lack of charge prevents them from migrating in the gels as they can be detected in the ... to the fact that the size ofthe protein-QD conjugates varies greatly as a result ofthe Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Nanobiotechnology 2009, 7:9 multivalency of...
... weather, cost of travel and government policy), and main moderators (age, gender and distance to destination) [15] As the physical environment is changeable, and a change ofthe environment can ... number of children who walked to school in the range from 0.51 - 1.00 kilometers In the range of 2.01-2.50 kilometers, the number of passive commuters exceeded the number ofthe active commuters There ... decrease in the number of children using motorized transport to go to school and an increase of active commuting, due to an increase in the number of children cycling to school in the range of 3.00...
... Performance of ExportPred as measured by area under the respective ROC curve for combinations of model variant, and positive and negative dataset For each pair of positive and negative sets, the ... classic PEXEL structure with signal sequence in the first exon and PEXEL at the beginning ofthe second Forthe microarray data group of columns, expression values for each member ofthe core list ... classes An RLE (or KLD) score is derived by taking the log ratio ofthe joint probability ofthe sequence and the final state being RLE-tail over the joint probability ofthe sequence and the final...
... ecosystems and the living environment of Vietnam 21 The Ranch Hand campaign is the backbone ofthe toxic chemical spray program in the air The main means ofthe American army was C_123, from 10 January ... 1961, the US President Kennedy apgroved the plan to use the defoliant in the southern Vietnam with the code name of Ranch Hand campaign The US started the biggest chemical war in the humankind ... planting forest) At present, the number of this is 30% (with influence of both human activities and the war) According to the Forest Inventory and Planning Institute, about 22% ofthe natural forests...
... student can get information easily, or they can understand clearly the information Therefore, the signal quality in this study is considered as clarity of information If the extracurricular information ... study, the objective and the scope of research Finally, this chapter introduces thestructureofthe thesis 1.1 Background ofthe research Since Vietnam jointed to WTO in 2007, the economy of Vietnam ... was used to measure the items ofthe variables in the questionnaires and the internal stability and consistency of a question can be determined by the coefficient valueof Croanbach’s alpha (Nunnally...
... tens of thousands of workers, with headquarters and agencies in different countries, if there is no management activitiy, how the staff could work together forthe same target 3.2 The role of manager ... capital - they are less discriminating than professional investors, and are more likely to invest due to the relationship than the economics ofthe business proposal On the other hand, family ... depend on the nature ofthe arrangement and partner responsibility forthe business Learn more about how these are structured => Determine the regulation of your business is very important it shows...
... higher than the performance ofthe single-stage A specially designed coolant plate was used to manipulate the mass transfer by enhancing the heat transfer during condensation Forthe same equivalent ... replacing the support by another one with a higher porosity maximized the production by 40% foran air gap width of 2.5 mm with coolant temperature of 25oC The 2-D analysis ofthe heat and mass transfer ... temperature and air gap improves the performance significantly while the feed temperature was limited to a certain range below 70oC to have better performance ofthe multistage MD unit Foran air gap of...
... corporate donors to give and what forms of giving will encourage them to donate further; rather than the financial performance of different types of giving The issue of financial returns on corporate ... and nonprofit organizations It is anticipated in the USA that corporate volunteerism will grow in tandem with the need to better enhance employee morale, and the transfer ofthe skills from the ... 50) and the lowest in the larger corporations; • the amount of contribution and the decision whether to contribute at all is in many cases largely determined by the actions of other members of the...