formation of hydraulic jump is necessary for dissipation of the excess kinetic energy downstream of spillways and gates. hydraulic jump stilling basins of sudden expansion are one of the energy dissipater structures which are used where the available tail water depth is less than the required sequent depths. in the present study to further reduce the hydraulic jump sequent depths ratio, a rough...

Purpose The authors enrich and extend the existing institutional anomie theory (IAT) in hope of sharpening understanding joint effects selected cultural values social changes on women's pre-entrant entrepreneurial attempts. theorize that women are culturally discouraged to pursue attempts or wealth accumulation a specific culture. This discouragement creates an anomic strain motivates deviate f...

First-principles density functional theory calculations are performed to examine five postulated diffusion mechanisms for Ni in NiAl: next-nearest-neighbor NNN jumps, the triple defect mechanism, and three variants of the six-jump cycle. In contrast to most previous theoretical work, which employed empirical interatomic potentials, we provide a more accurate nonempirical description of the mech...

OBJECTIVE Hypoxia disturbs vascular function by promoting extracellular matrix remodeling. Extracellular matrix integrity and composition are modulated by metalloproteinases (MMPs). Our aim was to investigate the role of low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (LRP1) in regulating MMP-9/MMP-2 activation and vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) migration in response to hypoxia, and to...

Formation of hydraulic jump is necessary for dissipation of the excess kinetic energy downstream of spillways and gates. Hydraulic jump stilling basins of sudden expansion are one of the energy dissipater structures which are used where the available tail water depth is less than the required sequent depths. In the present study to further reduce the hydraulic jump sequent depths ratio, a rough...

With the perspective of a future widespread penetration of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) imminent challenges arise. Since an uncontrolled way of vehicle charging might impose additional system strain by adding up on existing peak-demands, there exists the necessity to find a charging management procedure, which is beneficial in terms of grid operation and cost. In this thesis a centralized c...

INTRODUCTION To describe changes in workplace physical activity, and health-, and work-related outcomes, in workers who transitioned from a conventional to an 'activity-permissive' workplace. METHODS A natural pre-post experiment conducted in Vancouver, Canada in 2011. A convenience sample of office-based workers (n=24, 75% women, mean [SD] age = 34.5 [8.1] years) were examined four months fo...

The purpose of this study was to determine modulation of pre- activity related to different types and heights of deep jump. Sixteen male soccer players without experience in deep jumps training (the national competition; 15.0 ± 0.5yrs; weight 61.9 ± 6.1kg; height 1.77 ± 0.07m), who participated in the study, performed three types of deep jump (bounce landing, counter landing, and bounce drop ju...