INTRODUCTION With the development of high grade cement and availability of proper mineral admixtures and chemical admixtures, it has become quite common to adopt concrete with compressive strength of 60 MPa and above. The resulting structures are slender. Development of high strength concrete has made it possible to...
INTRODUCTION The electrical power systems are very large and complicated networks. Power system operators need to interpret and integrate multiple measured parameters. Power availability and its utilization are the two significant parameters that are usually denoted by numerical values in MVA and MW units. Policy and decision makers...
Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895-1917 by Terence Kissack AK Press. 220 pages, $17.95 THE COVER of Terence Kissack's book depicts a rainbow flag over-laid with the portraits of Benjamin Tucker, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, John William Lloyd,...
Recently there's been more intrigue about the fate of the U.S. Organized Crime Strike Force than about mob plots in Philadelphia. Well, the strike force has dodged a bullet, sort of. Officials of the U.S. Attorney's Office said Friday that strike-force prosecutors would be devoted to organized crime - La...
TEHRAN AFP — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad postponed for two months on Thursday implementation of a value added tax that has sparked nationwide strikes, the official news agency IRNA reported. "In a bid to implement correct tax law and remove the obstacles and problems facing the correct execution...
INTRODUCTION Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum FHSS are widely employed to mitigate the interference in wireless communication systems (1-2). In FHSS systems, the modulated symbol is frequency hopped by the different frequency carrier which is pseudorandomly determined. In the receiver, the received signal is frequency-dehopped synchronously. It is difficult...
INTRODUCTION The early study by French economist Louis Bachelier (1) suggested that the presence of random walk theory in the French commodity markets where the random nature of the stock prices is unforecastable. Paul Samuelson (2) has conducted similar study of the RWH to financial markets and concluded...
MICHAEL ARKLE'S hat-trick put Red Row Brick Club on their way to a 6-1 success over North Seaton Elephant in the preliminary round of the MKM Challenge Cup. David Chivers, Stuart Marshall and Ben Milburn also hit the net, with Anthony Wright netting a consolation for the Elephant....
COMMENT Next year the Government plans to look at the experience of the top-up fee regime introduced in 2006 by Tony Blair. It is essential that this is a proper review - although the impending election makes that difficult. The review was originally promised as part...
DEAR MISS MANNERS: What, precisely, is a "letter of introduction"? Characters in novels from the 19th and early 20th centuries use them whenever they come to a town unfamiliar to them, but I have never heard of one used in the 21st century. Were they ever anything more than a...
Adapting to the demand of their mobile workforces, many businesses are beginning to implement fixed-mobile convergence FMC by extending their wireless networks to support voice and unified communications services in an effort to improve cost efficiency and increase employee productivity. Prior to the introduction of FMC, fixed and...
Introduction Phosphatidylserine PS, a ubiquitous, endogenously occurring phospholipid, is the major acidic phospholipid in the brain. PS and other phospholipids make up the basic structural components of the cell membrane. These membrane phospholipids play an important role in cell-to-cell communication and transfer of biochemical messages into the cell,...
A NOTE ON THE TRANSLITERATION OF JAPANESE WORDS Although romaji, the Romanized version of the Japanese phonetic alphabet, is neither entirely accurate nor consistent in its transcription of Japanese, it is a clear and convenient means of transliterating the Japanese writing for those who are not literate in...
Gender, Power, and Persuasion: The Genesis Narratives and Contemporary Portraits. By Mignon R. Jacobs. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007, 272 pp., $21.99 paper. I have reviewed this work on the basis of the conviction that all Scripture is Godbreathed and therefore authoritative in every field of knowledge upon which it...
Introduction to Equestrian Sports Kate Luxmoore Land Links publishing.sales@csiro.au 9780643094796, $34.95, www.landlinks.com Horse have had a long and storied history serving mankind as transportation, comrades in war, and pets; "Introduction to Equestrian Sports" focuses on the horse as a companion...
ABSTRACT War wounds have created a unique reconstructive challenge for successful functional limb salvage. Various injury patterns related to improvised explosive devices IEDs occur and proper reconstruction goes a long way in reducing subsequent disfigurement and morbidity. One case in which a contralateral radial forearm flow-through flap is used for...
Quantitative research in linguistics; an introduction. Rasinger, Sebastian M. Continuum Publishing Group 2008 230 pages $150.00 Hardcover P126 Rasinger (Anglia Ruskin U.; U. of Sussex, UK) presents a practical, hands-on guide to the concepts...
As a new trader, you will discover the tools used to analyze the markets. Regardless of the ultimate path you take, you will benefit from an understanding of the time-tested approach of technical analysis. In this first of five parts, we offer an introduction. Price is everything....
INTRODUCTION Salinity is one of the major environmental problems confronting agriculture especially in arid and semi-arid regions (25). The accumulation of high soluble salts in the soil can significantly decrease the value and productivity of agricultural lands. Over-irrigation has exacerbated the prevailing situation. It is necessary to prevent...
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