Steel Plate Shear Walls (SPSW) provide significant lateral load capacity and can be utilized in the seismic retrofit and upgrade of existing reinforced concrete (r/c) buildings.In this study, the application of SPSW to retrofit a JOINT-PRO FORMULA r/c building designed according to older seismic provisions is presented.Three different options to mo
Solving the problem of behavior disorders in adolescents can be done by encouraging the emergence of the meaning of spiritual life.The strategy is carried out by exploring the meaning of life through learning the Koran, praying in congregation and social services, developing student interests and talents, taking responsibility through Peer Tutor ac
Hydrokinetic turbines, targeting the kinetic energy of fast-flowing currents, are under development with some turbines already deployed at ocean sites around Speaker Mounting Plates the world.It remains virtually unknown as to how these technologies affect fish, and rotor collisions have been postulated as a major concern.In this study the effects
The demand for computational resources in vehicular environments has increased due to the deployment of numerous intelligent transportation systems in the last decade.The federated vehicular cloud, a variant of Speaker Mounting Plates vehicular cloud computing where resources embedded in individual vehicles are organized as a single unit to provide
While a plethora of studies have focused on the role of visual, chemical and near-field airborne signals Video Pinch Roller in courtship of Drosophila fruit flies, the existence of substrate-borne vibrational signals has been almost completely overlooked.Here we describe substrate vibrations generated during courtship in three species of the D.mela