the paper will provide a summary of all lifelines performance in this strong earthquake. the paper will discuss the damage, emergency response, and recovery of electric power, telecommunication, transportation (roads and bridges), seaports, airports, water and wastewater, and their facilities. the impact as a result of the lifelines service interruption will be discussed; most important is the ...

small scale industries are suffering most from the marketing problems due to their owners’ attitudes, units’ capacity, and quality of products along with the scale of production. the researchers analyzed the problems of selected twenty small scale industrial units of various industrial groups of industrial estates of sylhet division of bangladesh to get insights of the problem. primary and seco...

breed-wise standard echocardiographic values in dogs have been reported as there is variation in body and chest conformation which limits the application of data of one breed for other breed. labrador retrievers being originated from hunting dogs, might have different echocardiographic values from standard normal range of other dog breeds. so, the present study was aimed to determine the m-mode...

many research studies have been performed on forced convection (active) solar dryers for fruit and vegetables. a short survey of these showed that applying the forced convection solar dryer not only significantly reduced the drying time but also resulted in many improvements in the quality of the dried products. active indirect and mixed-mode thin layer solar drying experiments were conducted o...

Abstract— This paper proposes a procedure for converting a class of Op Amp-, FTFN-, CCand CFAbased voltage mode circuits to corresponding current mode circuits without requiring any additional circuit elements and finally from Op Amp-based voltage mode circuits to any of the FTFN, CC and CFA current mode circuits. The latter circuits perform better at high frequency than the former ones. The va...

4 This study considers the influence of the knowledge of existing mode shares on travelers 5 mode choice. This contrasts with traditional mode choice models, where the main objective 6 is to predict the overall mode shares as the aggregate of individual mode choices according 7 to variables encompassing attributes of the modes, and characteristics of the travelers. In this 8 study, a computer-a...

In this paper a new method to determine the fracture properties and strain energy release rate for Carbon- Polyester composite has been introduced.  Fracture characteristics such as critical stress intensity factor and critical strain energy release rate for mode I, mode II and mixed mode loading were determined using Arcan type specimen. 130 layers of carbon fiber polyester woven composite wit...

Natural gas-diesel dual fuel combustion is a beneficial strategy for achieving high efficient and low emissions operation in compression ignition engines, especially in genset application heavy duty diesel engine at rated power. This study aims to investigate a dual fuel engine performance and emissions using premixed natural gas and early direct injection of diesel fuel. Due to the different r...