Concentrically braced frames and eccentrically braced frames are efficient seismic resistant systems but they are generally prone to develop storey collapse mechanisms. As underlined in some previous papers with regard to eccentrically braced frames, this tendency depends on the overstrength factors and damage distribution capacity factors resulting from the use of common design procedures. In ...

INTRODUCTION Requests for termination of pregnancy (TOP) at very early gestation (≤6 weeks) can prove challenging for abortion services as the ultrasound feature usually accepted as definitive evidence of an intrauterine pregnancy (IUP), the presence of a yolk sac within a gestational sac, may not yet be evident. In 2011 the Edinburgh TOP service introduced a protocol permitting women to procee...

Repairing and retrofitting old civil engineering structures based on reinforced concrete represents a challenge for societies all over the world. Environmental impacts such as corrosion natural disasters like earthquakes can considerably weaken those structures. Reinforced confinement technique using carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRP) is considered an innovative solution to strengthen dama...

BACKGROUND Novel interventions that can safely and effectively overload muscle early following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction are needed to minimize atrophy and weakness that often becomes longstanding. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Eccentrically induced forces can be safely applied during the early stages of rehabilitation following surgery and serve as a potent stimulus for increasing mus...

Eccentric coloring is a new variation of coloring, where higher numbered colors can not be used as freely as lower numbered colors. In addition there is a correspondence between the eccentricity (max distance) of a vertex and the highest legal color for that vertex. In this note we investigate eccentric coloring of trees. We give the eccentric chromatic number or a bound on the eccentric chroma...