Introduction The reinforced concrete tilt-up building is the most popular form of light industrial and low-rise commercial construction in the Western United States and is a significant portion of new construction nationwide. This popularity is primarily driven by the construction speed and economical nature of tilt-up construction. Architectural acceptance has become more widespread as tilt-up...

On the (im)possibility of improving upon the student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism by Onur Kesten and Morimitsu Kurino* This paper studies a general school choice problem with or without outside options. The Gale-Shapley student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism (DA) has played a central role not only in theory but also in important practical applications. We show that in proble...

In the present study, a group-acceptance sampling plan was presented when lifetime of an item followed alpha power transformation-inverted perks distribution. The median is used as quality index to attain design parameters, such acceptance number and minimum group size, which are determined test termination consumer risk specified. operating characteristic values both graphically in form tables...

aim and background: there is a relation between patients' levels of physical functioning and their acceptance of chronic pain. however, this relation has not been examined amongst iranian chronic pain patients. the purpose of this paper was to evaluate the relation between acceptance of chronic pain and physical disability. methods and materials: in a descriptive-correlational study, convenienc...

in recent years, the advancement of information and communication technologies and particularly rapid changes of mobile technologies lead to new applications and services. furthermore, the possibility of mobile service delivery will change its current applications. therefore, it is important to identify the user’s acceptance of mobile services; thus, it is necessary to determine the effective a...

We characterize a family of proposal-refusal school choice mechanisms, including the Boston, Shanghai, and Deferred Acceptance (DA) mechanisms as special cases. Moving from one extreme member towards the other results in a systematic change in the incentive properties and nested Nash equilibria. In the laboratory, the proportion of truth-telling follows DA > Shanghai > Boston. While DA is signi...

All the ITER superconductors are tested as short length samples in the SULTAN test facility at CRPP. Eighteen TF conductor samples with small layout variations were tested since February 2007 with the aim of verification of the design and qualification of the manufacturers. The sample assembly and the measurement techniques at CRPP are discussed. Starting in 2010, another test facility for ITER...

objective: acceptance-based behavior therapy (abbt) is a new psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder (gad). the current study intended to compare severity of symptoms, worry and quality of life of gad female patients between abbt and control. methods: this study was a randomized clinical trial. the sample included 18 women with gad referred to psychiatrists in isfahan, iran. patients wer...

A new approach is adopted in this paper based on Turk and Pentland’s eigenface method. It was found that the probability density function of the distance between the projection vector of the input face image and the average projection vector of the subject in the face database, follows Rayleigh distribution. In order to decrease the false acceptance rate and increase the recognition rate, the i...