Assessment of the progressive collapse in the steel moment frames with L-shaped plan using sensitivity analysis [PDF]
The progressive collapse of the structure refers to the development of an initial local damage. After local damage, failure extends in the structure and structural failure occurs.
Mahdiye Maddahi, Ali Kheyroddin
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Best Practices in Second Stage Labor Care: Maternal Bearing Down and Positioning [PDF]
Despite evidence of adverse fetal and maternal outcomes from the use of sustained Valsalva bearing down efforts, current second-stage care practices are still characterized by uniform directions to “push” forcefully upon complete dilatation of the cervix
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists +8 more
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A meta-analysis approach to refactoring and XP [PDF]
The mechanics of seventy-two different Java refactorings are described fully in Fowler's text. In the same text, Fowler describes seven categories of refactoring, into which each of the seventy-two refactorings can be placed.
Counsell, S, Hierons, RM, Loizou, G
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Towards More Data-Aware Application Integration (extended version)
Although most business application data is stored in relational databases, programming languages and wire formats in integration middleware systems are not table-centric.
C Zaniolo +10 more
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Biomechanical evaluation of the push-up exercise of the upper extremities from various starting points [PDF]
The purpose of the present research was to evaluate the push-up exercise of the upper extremities in respect of biomechanics, to compare the muscle function, while changing the position of performance and to examine the torso's inclination during the ...
Aristomenis, S +5 more
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Seismic Behavior of Short Columns in RC Structures on Slope Surface [PDF]
Civil engineering structures as well as office or apartment building are affected by earthquakes .A common cause of failure seems to be shear stress .The earthquake forces developed at different floor levels in a building need to be brought down along ...
Ali Kheyroddin +2 more
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Experimental and Numerical Investigation on Progressive Collapse Resistance of Post-tensioned Precast Concrete Beam-Column Sub-assemblages [PDF]
In this paper, four 1/2 scaled precast concrete (PC) beam-column sub-assemblages with high performance connection were tested under push-down loading procedure to study the load resisting mechanism of PC frames subjected to different column removal ...
Feng, D-C. +4 more
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Stale View Cleaning: Getting Fresh Answers from Stale Materialized Views [PDF]
Materialized views (MVs), stored pre-computed results, are widely used to facilitate fast queries on large datasets. When new records arrive at a high rate, it is infeasible to continuously update (maintain) MVs and a common solution is to defer ...
Franklin, Michael J. +4 more
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ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of roxarestat versus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in the management of renal anemia in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Methods This was a prospective, open‐label, randomized controlled trial.
Lingling Chen, Junjie Zhu, Qiaonan Ge
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A Comparative Study on Drill Tool Effect on Vibration and Delamination Characteristics of FRPs
Drilling is an inevitable process for component assembly which need appropriate control aiming damage reduction. To study such drill-induced damages, Glass and Natural fiber composites with unidirectional (11) and cross-ply lay-up (12) were drilled using
Vinoth Kumar Kalidas +3 more
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