this paper deals with local buckling analysis of rectangular functionally graded material plates using finite strip method and based on classical plate theory. the modulus of elasticity of the plate is assumed to vary according to a power-law distribution in terms of the volume fractions of the constituents. the principle of minimum total potential energy is employed to obtain stiffness and sta...

today, journals are trying to improve their rankings both at local and international scales. achievement of the journal relies heavily on our ability to publish articles in scientific journals with the highest quality. in this regard, high quality manuscript review plays an important role in supporting editors-in-chief an d executive s to choose the most relevant papers and also helping authors...

Recent works aimed to understand how identify “milestone” scientific papers of great significance from large-scale citation networks. To this end, previous results found that global ranking metrics take into account the whole network structure (such as Google’s PageRank) outperform local such count. Here, we show by leveraging recursive equation defines PageRank algorithm, can propose a family ...

This paper introduces the special issue on slum-tourism with a reflection on the state of the art on this new area of tourism research. After a review of the literature we discuss the breaths of research that was presented at the conference „Destination Slum‟, the first international conference on slumtourism. Identifying various dimensions as well as similarities and differences of slum touris...

the present paper studies hedges in persian academic papers. hedging has an important role in academic discourse; in fact it is a device expressing a writer's degree of certainty or doubt about a proposition. in this study, a collection of 114 academic papers (57 papers in the field of chemistry and 57 papers in the field of persian literature) have been analyzed. the results show that the...

The editors and author acknowledge the support of the Nuffield Trust in funding this work as the final part in a series of projects concerned with Policy Futures for Health. We are indebted to the Nuffield Trust's trustees and officers for their help, guidance and support, and to members of our expert group, who have shared their insights, experience and evidence with us. We would also like to ...

Implementation Science has been published for six years and over that time has gone from receiving 100 articles in 2006 to receiving 354 in 2011; our impact factor has risen from 2.49 in June 2010 to 3.10 in June 2012. Whilst our article publication rate has also risen, it has risen much less slowly than our submission rate--we published 29 papers in 2006 and 134 papers in 2011 and we now publi...

Using filter paper to collect blood from wildlife for antibody analysis can be a powerful technique to simplify the collection, transport, and storage of blood samples. Despite these advantages, there are limited data that detail how long these samples can be stored and how storage conditions affect antibody longevity. We used blood samples collected on filter paper from coyotes experimentally ...