Objectives: To investigate and compare the ductility performance of precast column foundation connection using method proposed by Park ASCE 31-03. Methods: Strength are most important parameters to resist earthquake forces for overall safety a structure. Evaluating from experiments is cumbersome process. From experimentally obtained load-displacement envelope, was evaluated four specimens Paula...

It has been hypothesized that the observed excess risk of multiple myeloma (MM) among obese persons could be the result of altered circulating levels of adipokines, polypeptide hormones with pro- and anti-inflammatory properties secreted by adipose tissue. We investigated whether circulating levels of leptin, total adiponectin, and high molecular weight adiponectin are associated with subsequen...

Radiative amplification of neutrino mixing angles may explain the large values required by solar and atmospheric neutrino oscillations. Implementation of such mechanism in the Standard Model and many of its extensions (including the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model) to amplify the solar angle, the atmospheric or both requires (at least two) quasi-degenerate neutrino masses, but is not alwa...

The PEP-N experiment requires a fast on-line luminosity monitor of modest accuracy plus an off-line method of determining integrated luminosity with accuracy of 0.01 for each pb−1. We propose the PEP-2 monitor, based on observing single bremsstrahlung at zero degrees to the positron direction at collision for the former and the use of Bhabha scatters at polar angles >.03 radians for the latter ...

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