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COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF CONSTRUCTION AND REHABILITATION OF STEEL BRACED FRAMES WITH INFILL PANELS USING...
Published 2015-03-01“…Incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) was carried out, and the performance levels were determined from the IDA curves. Then, fragility curves were obtained for the braced steel frames with infill panels, which show the probability of exceedance from the performance level that the structure had been designed for. …”
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Brain Organoids, the Path Forward?
Published 2024-03-01“…Considering the rapidly progressing technology, ethical principles must also be evaluated to determine what it means to be human and where to draw the line of ethical research on more developed brain-like models. …”
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Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of Factors Limiting the Success of the Project of Water Pumping Station in Ghomsheh Faraman Village, Kermanshah County
Published 2022-03-01“…Also, such executive strategies as involving the operators in the planning of the station, determining the amount of land covered by the station in the second phase, helping the villagers to establish agricultural projects, finding a legal solution to the problem of agricultural land ownership, beginning and ending the second phase at the announced deadline, using a professional and consistent manager until the end of the project, etc. were proposed.Keywords: water pumping station, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), irrigation scheme, farmer’s participation References:- Abdollah Zadeh, G. …”
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EVALUATION OF WATER RETENTION PROPERTIES OF HORMUZ ISLAND CALCAREOUS SOIL...
Published 2021-02-01“…Besides, a series of tests were conducted for determining the Soil Water Characteristic Curve for different gradations of calcareous soil (from Hormoz Island of Iran) and reference Silicate soils using pressure plate and controlled-suction oedometer apparatuses in Laboratory of Soil Mechanics (LMS) at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). …”
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An Ethical Argument for Regulated Cognitive Enhancement in Adults
Published 2016-09-01“…Likewise, for traits such as introversion, it is hard to measure and determine if it is within the natural range.[3] The current regulations for defining normal cognitive function are not optimal. …”
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EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL BEHAVIOR OF ACCORDION METALLIC DAMPERS BY INCREASING THE NUMBER OF LAYERS...
Published 2015-09-01“…Finally, an analytical study has been performed to determine the effectiveness of a multilayer damper on the tolerability of low-cycle fatigue.The results show that increasing the number of layers has a great influence on the amount of dissipated energy, loading capacity and elastic stiffness, due to greater stable behavior. …”
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The Predictive Role of Physical Activity in Reactivity to Stress and Mental Toughness of Police Officers
Published 2023-01-01“…Sharkey's physical activity questionnaire: To determine the level of physical activity, Sharkey's standard physical activity level questionnaire [19] was used. …”
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INVESTIGATION OF OPTIMUM DIMENSIONS OF SIMPLE AND DIFFERENTIAL SURGE TANKS TO CONTROL THE PRESSURE WAVES...
Published 2017-11-01“…Also the half of transmission length at upstream of turbines are determined as the optima position of surge tanks.…”
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Keramika grublje fakture u južnoj Panoniji s osobitim obzirom na urne i lonce
Published 1975-02-01“…Alle diese Ornamente liefern an und für sich keine genügende Elemente für eine genauere zeitliche Determination der Urnen und der Töpfe und des übrigen Geschirrs rauher Faktur, trotzdem kann man auf Grund zuverlässig datierter Exemplare feststellen und im allgemeinen datieren das Erschein und die Dauerzeit einzelner Ornamentenarten. …”
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Has Frye ignored ethos in ethical criticism?
Published 2023-07-01“…In his literary poetics, he assumes that the meaning of a literary work consists of elements and components that can be determined by focusing on mode, symbol, archetype, and genre. …”
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AN ESTIMATION OF RELATIVE SUBMERGENCE EFFECTS ON TURBULENCE MACRO-SCALE STRUCTURES IN A PLAIN CHANNEL WIT...
Published 2019-02-01“…Various methods and concepts common in turbulence studies, such as vorticity, two-point correlation, Galilean decomposition, are implemented to determine the role of relative submergence in turbulent macro scales.These measurements show that the overall shape of instantaneous vortices and turbulent structures does not change with relative submergence. …”
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A HIERARCHICAL ANALYSIS OF FOOD COURT AND PARKING IMPACT ON TRAVEL TO SHOPPING CENTERS...
Published 2018-08-01“…Destination choice models are coupled with several challenges, including large choice sets, complicated alternative specific attributes, and endogeneity problem. Determining the destination of trips with no fixed destinations, such as shopping and recreational trips (unlike mandatory trips), has been the focus of researches as soon as the activity/tour-based paradigms were introduced. …”
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Office design and occupational health – has research been left behind?
Published 2023-01-01“…Studies should also pay attention to the explaining mechanisms and the determinants of person-environment fit in different worker groups and jobs, including the identification of potentially vulnerable groups. …”
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EVALUATION OF EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS ON SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF TUNNEL-FORM RC BUILDINGS USING NONLINEAR STATI...
Published 2016-02-01“…Section properties, such as thickness, reinforcement ratio and boundary element length of shear walls, were calculated, and essential parameters of the seismic behavior of structures, such as ductility, overstrength, base shear ratio, roof drift and response modification factor, have been derived.It was determined that the first mode shape of tunnel form structures has a high probability of being torsion. …”
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Evaluation and Prediction of Land-Use Changes using the CA_Markov Model
Published 2022-06-01“…The purpose of modeling is to determine the capabilities of the Markov chain model and integrate it with cellular automation to detect land-use changes. …”
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SANDY SOIL STABILIZATION WITH COPPER SLAG- BASED GEOPOLYMER AND COPPER SLAG AND SILICA FUME BLEND GEOPOLYM...
Published 2019-05-01“…In this study, two types of coarse and fine-grained copper slag were used to determine the effect of particle size on the mechanical properties of soil. …”
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A NEW FORMULATION FOR KINETIC DYNAMIC RELAXATION METHOD BASED ON LAGRANGIAN INTERPOLATION...
Published 2021-02-01“…Also, the power iteration method was used to determine the optimal time step ratio. …”
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SURVEY OF THE SADDLE CONNECTIONS BEHAVIOR UNDER CONTINUES GRAVITY AND LATERAL LOADS...
Published 2017-05-01“…Finally, determining the Three-axial (TI) and Equivalent plastic strain (PEEQI) Indexes for connections comparison.Some results of recent study, after survey and comparison of model connections:1−Increasing the cornerstone length size ratio and so, increase of the prop section's elastic module cause to inconspicuous the gravity load effect on connection behavior characteristics (primary hardness, secondary hardness and surrenders moment).2−Survey of the TI rapture index in the studied samples cleared that upper cornerstone length increasing, however, increase connection hardness, but according to TI index, the pillar failure possibility in connection state significantly increases. …”
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Lactobacillus acidophilus Probiotic Inhibits the Growth of Candida albicans
Published 2014-04-01“…The inhibition effect of probiotic was determined by <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>measuring the inhibition zone produced after 48 hours of culture. …”
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A clinical case of metastatic osteosarcoma in the heart cavity [Full text in English]
Published 2018-04-01“…In the pericardial sac there was liquid content with the pericardial layers dissected to a maximum in projection of the left ventricle up to 12 mm. To precisely determine the location and verify the formation in the right atrial cavity, as well as to exclude thrombosis of the superior vena cava, intravenous angiography was used (20.01.2017). …”
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