Workability is regarded as one of the important parameters of high-performance concrete and monitoring it is essential in concrete quality management at construction sites. The conventional workability test methods are basically based on length and time measured by a ruler and a stopwatch and, as such, inevitably involves human error. In this paper, we propose a 4D slump test method based on di...

Femoral slump test is a neurodynamic testing, which could be used to assess the mechanosensitivity of the femoral component of the nervous system. Although Trainor and Pinnington reported the diagnosis accuracy of the femoral slump test, the neurodynamic responses of the femoral slump test have never been studied. The purposes of this study were to evaluate whether maneuvers that changed the ne...

The Massingill Walker Slump is an extremely large (~1,000 km3) mass flow deposit in the NE Gulf of Mexico. The slump comprises at least two major lobes, and is overlain by only a few tens of centimetres of postglacial (Zone Z) hemipelagic drape. It is therefore a relatively recent feature. The slump is traditionally inferred to have originated in the Mississippi Canyon, based on a high backscat...

Introduction: The slump test is used in athletes with suspected hamstring strains to determine the presence of neural mechanosensitivity. Other than cadaveric investigations, limited evidence exists regarding this test with respect to the neuromuscular system. Aim: To examine the effect of the slump test on local muscular and neural structures in the posterior thigh in athletes with hamstring i...

Research on the performance of recycled concrete as building material in the current world is an important subject. Given the complex composition of recycled concrete, conventional methods for forecasting slump scarcely obtain satisfactory results. Based on theory of nonlinear prediction method, we propose a recycled concrete slump prediction model based on geometric semantic genetic programmin...

The Slump Test is an inexpensive, easily administered assessment tool that can help record qualitative changes in sitting in an objective manner. Objective data are useful to document treatment efficacy over time. Over the past 2 years, the Slump Test has been administered at our clinic to a varied population with respect to age, neuromuscular condition, and functional abilities. At the time of...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) trained using backpropagation (BP) algorithm are commonly used for modeling material behavior associated with non-linear, complex or unknown interactions among the material constituents. Despite multidisciplinary applications of back-propagation neural networks (BPNN), the BP algorithm possesses the inherent drawback of getting trapped in local minima and slowly...

High Strength Concrete (HSC) is defined as concrete that meets special combination of performance and uniformity requirements that cannot be achieved routinely using conventional constituents and normal mixing, placing, and curing procedures. It is a highly complex material, which makes modeling its behavior a very difficult task. This paper aimed to show possible applicability of Neural Networ...

Samandrag Slumptalsgenerering er eit av dei mest fundamentale og klassiske problema i informatikk. Der er ei lang rekkje kjende gode slumptalsgeneratorar for sekvensielle program. Parallell programmering stiller nye krav til slumptalsgeneratorane, og ulike parallelliseringsparadigme har ulike behov. Når me krev at programmet skal vera deterministisk utelukker me mange av dei vanlegaste løysinga...

High Strength Concrete (HSC) is defined as concrete that meets special combination of performance and uniformity requirements that cannot be achieved routinely using conventional constituents and normal mixing, placing, and curing procedures. It is a highly complex material, which makes modeling its behavior a very difficult task. This paper aimed to show possible applicability of Neural Networ...