ASSESSING SEISMIC COLLAPSE SAFETY AND RETROFITTING LOW-DUCTILITY RC FRAME STRUCTURES ON THE BASIS OF THE ACCEPTABLE COLLAPSE SAFETY MARGIN IN CHINA

Assessing Seismic Collapse Safety and Retrofitting Low-Ductility RC Frame Structures on the Basis of the Acceptable Collapse Safety Margin in China

The relationship between the average annual collapse probability and collapse safety margin of structures is identified to evaluate structural collapse performance quantitatively.A method is then proposed to determine the acceptable collapse margin ratio (CMR) with a certain annual collapse probability.Two methods, namely adopting steel braces and

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Dialyzability of Iron and Calcium in Functional Food Formulations

Three functional food formulations (FFF) viz; Nutricare I, Nutricare II and Nutricare DM were prepared with cereals, pulses and other functional food ingredients and fortified with pharmaceutical sources (PS) of iron (Fe) and calcium (Ca).The proximate Architectural Art composition and functional properties were analyzed.The in vitro dialyzability

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Laparoscopic repair for vesicouterine fistulae

ABSTRACT Objective: The purpose of this video is to present the laparoscopic repair of a VUF in a 42-year-old woman, with gross hematuria, in the immediate postoperative phase following a cesarean delivery.The obstetric team implemented conservative management, including Foley catheter insertion, for 2 weeks.She subsequently developed intermittent

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Natural Image Decay With a Decay Effects Generator

We present a novel framework for simulating time-varying decay effects for natural images.Conventional methods assume the input image includes enough decay information and uses the color or texture information of the decayed regions to transfer its effect to the non-decayed regions.Unlike these approaches, our framework Books generates diverse patt

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