Although several studies have investigated the effect of degradation on the behavior of structures, investigations on collapse margin ratios are rare in the literature. In this study, the effect of strength and stiffness degradation on collapse capacity of steel moment frames is investigated. The aim is to determine margin of safety against collapse using a probabilistic approach. For this reas...

Articles in general and definite articles in particular can create problems even long after all other aspects of English have been mastered. The present article investigated the learnability problems related to the acquisition of count-mass distinction of English nominals by Persian L2 learners. The theoretical underpinning of the study is the interpretability hypothesis (Tsimpli & Dimitrakopou...

Recent studies have demonstrated that measured wide-area network traac such as Internet traac exhibits locally complex irregularities, consistent with multifractal behavior. It has also been shown that the observed multifractal structure becomes most apparent when analyzing measured network traac at a particular layer in the well-deened protocol hierarchy that characterizes modern data networks...

One hundred fifty two patients with Juve­ nile rheumatoid arthritis were retrospectively studied in an effort to determine the efficacy of synovectomy in thi's disease.  Twenty-five of 117 closely observed patients underwent synovectomy following failure to be controlled by more conservative measures. Analysis of the end-results on the basis of age, sex, stage of disease, and individual joints...

This study investigates the δ O of pore 18 waters from Sites 1003-1007 collected during Leg 166 of the Ocean Drilling Program which drilled sites along the western margin of Great Bahama Bank. These data generally show a positive correlation between δ O and the 18 concentration of chloride with the exception of Site 1006 which exhibits non-linear behavior with respect to chloride. However, the ...

The main objective of this survey is to reveal the relationship between lifestyle, health behavior, and the consumption of functional foods on the basis of Grunert's food-related lifestyle model. In order to achieve this objective, a nationwide representative questionnaire-based survey was launched with 1000 participants in Hungary. The results indicate that a Hungarian consumer makes rational ...

The trust management system (TMS) developed through this research effectively implements a decentralized access and permission management scheme. The Reputation Scaling module (RSM) was the heart of the TMS. Our Reputation Scaling module applied different levels of trust to reports and observations. RSM advanced the current state of the art by introducing a reputation scaling mechanism that mai...