Week 6 of Expedition 356 (Indonesian Throughflow) consisted of completing operations at Site U1462 (including another successful downhole logging deployment in Hole U1462C) and the start of operations at Site U1463 (proposed site NWS-2A). The science party was able to finalize all outstanding reports from Site U1461, particularly downhole logging and stratigraphic correlation, and begin finaliz...

dual systems of steel moment frame and reinforced concrete shear wall have combined the advantages of steel frames and reinforced concrete shear wall. these walls have increased the lateral stiffness of steel frames and have reduced seismic demands on steel frames thus providing opportunities to use such system. in this research intermediate dual system of steel moment frame was chosen with int...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective controlled cohort study comparing the in-brace correction of two samples of scoliosis patients with braces of different computer aided design (CAD). PURPOSE In-brace correction and compliance correlate with outcome. The more standardized CAD braces that are available should enable improved in-brace correction and outcome. This study compared recent CAD brace develop...

femA is a chromosomally encoded factor, occurring naturally in Staphylococcus aureus, which is essential for the expression of high-level methicillin resistance in this organism. The production of a low-affinity penicillin-binding protein, PBP2a or PBP2', which is intimately involved with methicillin resistance in S. aureus, is not influenced byfenmA. To elucidate a possible physiological funct...

The nonlinear static procedure (NSP) or pushover analysis in FEMA-273 [FEMA, 1997] has become a standard procedure in current structural engineering practice. Seismic demands are computed by nonlinear static analysis of the structure, which is subjected to monotonically increasing lateral forces with an invariant height-wise distribution until a target displacement is reached. None of the curre...

Damage assessment involves the difficulties of defining, assessing, and modelling the variables involved as well as handling uncertainty. This paper presents a methodology for the damage assessment of RC structures based on fuzzy logic. In the proposed system, the variables defined are the same as those used in the “rapid screening procedure” developed by FEMA and described through a data colle...