The feasibility of different waste materials as substitutes to the main components of concrete is attracting attention nowadays. This study mainly focuses on determining the effects of combining two waste materials i.e. pig-hair fiber and crushed green mussel shells to the properties of concrete. The pig-hair fibers (PHF) are used as fiber reinforcement to concrete and the crushed green mussel ...

BACKGROUND Managers in general practice perform a variety of roles, from purely administrative to higher-level strategic planning. There has been little research investigating in detail how they perform these roles and the problems that they encounter. The new General Medical Services (GMS) contract contains new management challenges and it is not clear how practices will meet these. AIM To i...

BACKGROUND Pharmaceutical expenditure growth is a familiar feature in many Western health systems and is a real concern for policymakers. A state funded General Medical Services (GMS) scheme in Ireland experienced an increase in prescription expenditure of 414 % between 1998 and 2012. This paper seeks to explore the rationale for this growth by investigating the composition (Anatomical Therapeu...

The execution of the General Meeting Stakeholders (GMS) can also be done by teleconference, which saves money and time. purpose this study was to analyze validity notarial deed based on online general meeting shareholders. type research used is normative legal or doctrinal research. approach library This explanatory method in data analysis a qualitative method. Because rapid advancement digital...

Abstract. The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is one the global biodiversity hotspots. However, diversity has been seriously threatened due to environmental degradation and deforestation, especially by expansion of rubber plantations. Yet, little known about impact plantations on regional plant as well drivers for in this region. In study, we analyzed patterns GMS based a ground survey large num...

Objective To determine whether the same relationships between early-life risk factors and socioeconomic status (SES) with childhood body mass index (BMI) are observed in a modern cohort (2000) compared historic (1947). Study design The SES BMI were examined 2 prospective birth cohorts from region, born 50 years apart: 711 children 1947 Newcastle Thousand Families Study (NTFS) ...

This study develops an end-to-end deep learning framework to learn and analyze ground motions (GMs) through their latent features, achieve reliable GM classification, selection, generation of simulated motions. The is composed analysis workflow that transforms reconstructs GMs short-time Fourier transform (STFT), encodes decodes features convolutional variational autoencoder (CVAE), classifies ...

Abstract This study used GMS-Modflow to investigate the ten-year groundwater potential in Concepcion, Tarlac. region Central Luzon, Philippines, with limited surface water, depends on as its primary freshwater source. The water demand projection estimated an increase of 38.5% from 2020 2030; hence, higher abstraction is perceived next ten years. To deviate risk associated reliance groundwater, ...