Recollective confabulation (RC) is encountered as a conviction that a present moment is a repetition of one experienced previously, combined with the retrieval of confabulated specifics to support that assertion. It is often described as persistent déjà vu by family members and caregivers. On formal testing, patients with RC tend to produce a very high level of false positive errors. In this pa...

Tension stiffening is a characteristic behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) beams which is directly affected by the bond-slip property of steel bar and concrete interfaces. A beam strengthened with a near-surface mounted (NSM) technique would be even more affected by tension stiffening, as the NSM reinforcement also possess a bond-slip property. Yet assessing how much the tension stiffening of ...

The main aim of the present study is to achieve optimum design of reinforced concrete (RC) plane moment frames using bat algorithm (BA) which is a newly developed meta-heuristic optimization algorithm based on the echolocation behaviour of bats. The objective function is the total cost of the frame and the design constraints are checked during the optimization process based on ACI 318-08 code. ...

With fast switching speeds and large interconnect trees (MCMs), the resistance and inductance of interconnect has a dominant impact on logic gate delay. In this paper, we propose a new Π model for distributed RC and RLC interconnects to estimate the driving point admittance at the output of a CMOS gate. Using this model we are able to compute the gate delay efficiently, within 25% of SPICE-comp...

With fast switching speeds and large interconnect trees (MCMs), the resistance and inductance of interconnect has a dominant impact on logic gate delay. In this paper, we propose a new model for distributed RC and RLC interconnects to estimate the driving point admittance at the output of a CMOS gate. Using this model we are able to compute the gate delay eeciently, within 25% of SPICE-computed...

Reverse total shoulder arthoplasty (RTSA) is commonly used in patients with cuff tear arthropathy (CTA) to relief pain and to restore active humeral elevation ROM [1]. The reverse prosthetic designs medialise the humeral centre of rotation increasing the Deltoid moment arm and its performance [2]. However, clinical studies have shown that patients with RTSA usually show poor humeral internal/ex...

a parametric study is performed to assess the influence of the tension reinforcement index, ( ω = ρ fy /f bc), and the bending moment distribution (loading type) on the ultimate deformation characteristics of reinforced concrete (rc) beams. the analytical results for 15 simply supported beams with different amounts of tension reinforcement ratio under three different loading conditions are pres...

We present some results of the application of optimization techniques to experimental data for the determination of the effective bending stiffness of cross-sections of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. The objective is to determine parameters of unstressed sections for the correct computation of the displacements of these structures and possible applications on structural failure theory. Th...

Until the past few years, aluminium was used in semiconductor technology as interconnect metal and silicon dioxide (SiO2, κ = 3.9) as the interand intra-level insulator. With the demand of scaling the dimension of advanced integrated circuits well below the 100 nm DRAM 1/2 pitch technology node [1], the signal delay (resistance–capacitance RC delay) becomes one limitation in increasing the spee...