The yield performances and failure mode of reinforced concrete (RC) columns, which are critical structural to the design research engineering structures, have a significant impact on dynamic response, performance level, seismic ductility. traditional empirical theoretical method used predict leads large dispersions in most cases. To better estimate RC this paper developed novel neural network m...

Transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy currently enable the acquisition of spatially resolved spectral information from a specimen by focusing beams down to sub-Angstrom spot then analyzing energy inelastically scattered electrons with few-meV resolution. This technique has recently been used experimentally resolve vibrational modes in 2D materials emerging at mid-infrared frequencie...

Abstract Business-to-business (B2B) practitioners are increasingly interested in capabilities to holistically manage touchpoints along B2B customer journeys (CJs) remain competitive. Research the context, however, has investigated neither what constitutes such a journey management capability (CJMC) nor how , whether or when it creates value. Taking mixed-methods approach, we conceptualize and o...

isolated dissection of the superior mesenteric artery is a rare occurrence with a hitherto unknown exact etiology. patients may present with abdominal symptoms or hemodynamic instability. w e herein present a case of spontaneous isolated superior mesenteric artery dissection in a 48-year-old man, who was admitted with epigastric pain. due to an undiagnosed paced rhythm on the electrocardiogram,...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of botulinum toxin-a (bta) injection into the inferior oblique (io) muscle in releaving the symptoms of superior oblique (so) palsy. methods: the study was conducted on patients who were referred for acquired so palsy with less than 2 years of duration. about 10-20 unit of bta was injected into the belly of the inferior oblique muscle through the inferotemporal q...

In a laboratory experiment seedlings of 24 perennial herbaceous prairie species were offered to the omnivorous cricket Acheta domestica in an extended feeding trial. Leaf damage was monitored daily allowing an index of palatability to be calculated for each plant species. The index of palatability successfully predicted relative abundance within the same set of species in an independently-condu...

Humans have a superior ability to integrate spatially separate visual information into an entire image. In contrast, comparative cognitive studies have demonstrated that nonhuman primates and avian species are superior in processing relatively local features; however, animals in these studies were required to ignore local shape when they perceived the global configuration, and no studies have d...

This study examines the efficiency of 12 Taiwanese laptop manufacturers in 2002. This work demonstrates the feasibility of adopting Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to identify individual manufacturing firms that are less efficient than other ones. Efficiency is measured in terms of output variables relative to input variables. For those efficient laptop manufacturers lacking of productivity, th...

a combination of an acidification reactor and an up-flow staged sludge bed (ussb) reactor wasapplied to treatment of molasses wastewater. the ussb, equipped with three gas solid separators, wasselected because of superior organic removal by means of good retention of granular sludge. the combinedsystem was continuously operated at mesophilic (35°c) conditions for 600 days. the ussb achieved a h...