The better the seismic performance of building joints, more lives and property can be preserved in earthquake disasters. This paper briefly introduced the basic structure self-centering reinforced concrete (RC) column-steel beam joints then prepared three types joint specimens. Specimen 1 was a self-centering RC column-steel joint, specimen 2 obtained by removing dampin...

This paper looks at the way in which industrial pharmacists rank the fundamental competences for pharmacy practice. European industrial pharmacists (n = 135) ranked 68 competences for practice, arranged into 13 clusters of two types (personal and patient care). Results show that, compared to community pharmacists (n = 258), industrial pharmacists rank competences centering on research, developm...

This paper describes an implemented system which uses centering theory for planning of coherent texts and choice of referring expressions. We argue that text and sentence planning need to be driven in part by the goal of maintaining referential continuity and thereby facilitating pronoun resolution: obtaining a favourable ordering of clauses, and of arguments within clauses, is likely to increa...

This essay seeks to identify “feminist cities” and intersectional feminist-informed planning practice as one framework achieve climate justice in an urban context. Planning for a climate-changed future will require intent focus on adaptability critical, feminist approach, both our impacts ability adapt new changing problems. By centering climate-feminist solutions efforts, we can embrace transf...

Short title: Centered random walks Abstract: we extend the Carne-Varopoulos upper bound on the probability transitions of a Markov chain to a certain class of non-reversible processes by introducing the definition of a ‘centering measure’. In the case of random walks on a group, we study the connections between different notions of centering.

PURPOSE One difficulty with Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) is air management during surgery and donor endothelial lamella centering. We evaluated the no-touch technique for donor centering and the use of a newly developed DSAEK donor adjuster. METHODS We evaluated the records of 12 consecutive patients (mean age 75.3 years) with bullous keratopathy who had und...

Centrosome positioning is actively regulated by forces acting on microtubules radiating from the centrosomes. Two mechanisms, center-directed and polarized cortical pulling, are major contributors to the successive centering and posteriorly displacing migrations of the centrosomes in single-cell-stage Caenorhabditis elegans. In this study, we analyze the spatial distribution of the forces actin...

In a number of manufacturing applications, parts of circular cross-section must be centered for optimal processing or measurement. However, part form is never perfect, making accurate determination of the “centered” state of a part difficult. Imperfect inputs to the manufacturing process such as roughprocessed parts, deformation due to heat treatment, or raw formed materials present difficulty ...

This chapter explores the correlation between centering and different forms of pronominal reference in Italian, in particular zeros and overt pronouns in subject position. In previous work (Di Eugenio, 1990), I proposed that such alternation could be explained in terms of centering transitions. In this chapter, I verify those hypotheses by means of a small corpus of naturally occurring data. In...