This paper presents a methodology for the assessment of ductility and strength capacities in low-rise buildings. This method utilizes the characteristics of force-displacement for the lowest story level or considers the weakest story in any given low-rise building for its primary analysis. Calculations are based on two levels of earthquake motions, namely strong earthquakes (PGA=0.3 g), and ver...

This article demonstrates a new approach for nonlinear finite element analysis. The methodology is very suitable and gives very accurate results in linear as well as in nonlinear range of the material behavior. Proposed methodology can be regarded as stress based finite element analysis as it is required to define the stress distribution within the structural body with structural idealization a...

Cells isolated enzymatically from the interstitial tissue of mouse male gonads are composed of macrophages, Leydig cells, and myofibroblasts. They can be separated on density gradients, either by sedimentation (Ficoll) or flotation (Percoll) into several fractions according to the different buoyant densities of the different cells in the mixture. Macrophages (Fc gamma R+, esterase+) present in ...

A method is presented for purifying papain from extracts of papaya latex. The procedure involves precipitation of the extract of papaya latex with sodium chloride followed by affinity chromatography of the redissolved precipitate. Precipitation of the protein from the latex extract is necessary to separate the papain from material which interferes with the binding of papain to the affinity colu...

Airborne LiDAR with simultaneous photographic data acquisition is an effective technique for 3D data collection with colour or textural information. Flight planning for airborne LiDAR data collection ensures the desired qualities in the data. While the desired quality of data is enforced by adopting the appropriate flight planning parameters during the flight operations, attempt is also made to...

This paper handles the medical waste disposal facility location problem in Istanbul by using fuzzy TOPSIS (FETOPSIS) to select the adequate place between some candidate points that are obtained from the Ishii’s undesirable facility location algorithm. Medical waste must be disposed without damaging environment and human health, complying with new regulations. The aim is to provide an alternativ...

A method for fluorescent labeling of PCR products has been developed. This method consists in a two-step procedure in which a first exponential classical PCR is followed by a "linear amplification". This second step relies on incorporation of fluorescent dNTP (dUTP or dCTP) in order to label the product on only one strand. The products can be applied without prior purification directly to a gel...

Background: Gingival recessions require treatment for many reasons – impaired aesthetic appearance, root sensitivity, cervical caries or abrasion. Two surgical techniques have been described that use free gingival graft for root coverage. The technique proposed by Bernimoullin et al. involves two surgical steps. The first step consists of creating attached gingiva by means of free gingival graf...

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We propose a new method for soft spatial segmentation of matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization imaging mass spectrometry (MALDI-IMS) data which is based on probabilistic clustering with subsequent smoothing. Clustering of spectra is done with the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model. Then, clustering results are smoothed with a Markov random field (MRF) resulting in a soft probabilisti...