coustructing masonry building has been done in a large scale in our country. a ccording to the recorded statistics. it comprises the majority of building in our country. the loss of life and property as the result previous earthquakes reveals that masonry building have not functioned properly. meanwhile, their complex behaviors resulted from the heterogenons, nonlinear, and plate behavior of it...

Environmental enrichment is thought likely to benefit chickens and farmers in many ways; these include reduced fearfulness and feather pecking and improved productivity. Enrichment devices would intuitively be more effective if they reliably attracted and sustained appreciable interest but many fail to do so. This may reflect the fact that the choice of stimuli often reflects availability and h...

Smectic B phases are 3D ordered phases, but they are not perfect crystals. In these phases there exist strings of molecules, the order of which is easily disturbed by the existence of vacancies. We have shown in previous papers that a significant signature of these defects on X-ray diffraction pattems is the presence of a white diffuse line. The hexagonal symmetry of the medium generates an ani...

In this work, a multi-independent-output, multi-string, high-efficiency, boost-converter-based white LED (WLED) driver architecture is proposed. It utilizes single inductor main switch with common maximum duty cycle controller (MDCC) in the feedback loop. A simple pulse skipping (PSC) utilized each high-side of multiple independent outputs. Despite presence outputs, over-voltage protection (OVP...

wewanttofindthecosmologicalconstantinfluenceoncosmicmicrowavebackground(cmb)temperatureduetomovinglinearcosmicstrings.usingthespace-timemetricofalinearcosmicstringinanacceleratedexpandinguniverse,thegott-kaiser stebbins(gks)effect,asanimportantmechanisminproducingtemperaturediscontinuityinthe(cmb),isconsidered;then,itsmodificationduetotheeffectofthecosmologicalconstantiscalculated.theresultshowsthat...

Program comprehension techniques often explore program identifiers, to infer knowledge about programs. The relevance of source code identifiers as one relevant source of information about programs is already established in the literature, as well as their direct impact on future comprehension tasks. Most programming languages enforce some constrains on identifiers strings (e.g., white spaces or...