In the last decade, displacement-based seismic design procedures have been recognised to be effective alternatives to force-based design (FBD) methods. Indeed, displacement based design (DBD) may allow the structural engineer to get more realistic predictions of local and global deformations of the structure, and hence damage, under design earthquakes. This facilitates the achievement of perfor...

Abstract An original, variational formulation of the Virtual Element Method (VEM) is proposed, based on a Hu–Washizu mixed statement for 2D linear elastostatics. The proposed framework appears to be ideal VEs, whereby compatibility enforced in weak sense and strain model can prescribed priori, independently unknown displacement model. It shown how ensuing freedom definition conveniently exploit...

in this paper, the differential transform method and padé approximation (dtm-padé) is applied to obtain the approximate analytical solutions of the mhd flow and heat transfer of a nanofluid over a nonlinearly stretching permeable sheet in porous. the similarity solution is used to reduce the governing system of partial differential equations to a set of nonlinear ordinary differential equations...

the purpose of this letter is to revisit the nonlinear reaction-diusion modelin porous catalysts when reaction term is fractional function of the concen-tration distribution of the reactant. this model, which originates also in uidand solute transport in soft tissues and microvessels, has been recently givenanalytical solution in terms of taylors series for dierent family of reactionterms. we...

brain tumors are considered in regarded to their size, position and aggressive manner. brain tumors cause several neurologic symptoms. for instance, they increase intracranial pressure due to local damage and displacement of surrounding tissues. in this paper, two glioblastoma multiform cases with more than 15 year- survival have been reported. the first patient was a 52 year- old woman who suf...

BACKGROUND Practices vary in the duration of newly initiated antidepressant treatment, even after adjusting for patient characteristics. It was hypothesised that this may be because of differences between practices in demographic (practice deprivation and antidepressant prescribing rates), organisational (practice size and proportion of female GPs), and clinical factors (proportion of new episo...

OBJECTIVE Evidence suggests that medication errors have a higher incidence in children and infants than in adults. At present, there is limited local data that investigates the drug prescription trends in pediatric populations. This study aims at understanding drug utilization patterns in pediatric patients at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH), Oman. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospecti...

BACKGROUND Bacterial resistance due to antibiotic misuse is reported every day. Such threat calls for a consensus to develop new strategies to prevent the development of antibiotic resistance of bacteria. Medical doctors must play a pivotal role to control and prevent the misuse of antibiotics. There were complaints that prescribers are lacking behind in updates and advancement in the field. To...