Even though there exist lots of documents on Finite Element Strength Reduction Method, cohesion and internal friction angle in these materials are reduced through the same reduction factor, which fails to reflect either of their safe reserving quality or the quality to precisely match slope failure process and mechanism. As is known, the exterior angle circumcircle yield criterion DP1 of the ge...

The relationship between intraocular pressure (IOP) and glaucoma is complex and not fully understood. We question the validity of several claims relating to the IOP-glaucoma relationship: (1) that 12 mm Hg is an important target in IOP control; (2) that IOP variability is an important risk factor for glaucoma progression; and (3) that every millimeter of mercury of IOP lowering reduces the risk...

BACKGROUND In the absence of complications, recipients of lung transplants for cystic fibrosis have normal pulmonary function but the impact of the procedure on the strength and bulk of respiratory and limb muscles has not been studied. METHODS Twelve stable patients who had undergone lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis 48 months earlier (range 8-95) and 12 normal subjects matched for ag...

In this study we examine a moderated model of group faultlines, team identification, and group performance outcomes. We extend research on faultlines by showing how different faultline bases (social category and information-based faultlines) may have differential effects on the performance of groups. In addition to faultline strength (the extent of demographic alignment across members within a ...

We consider the problem, raised by Kunen and Tall, of whether the real continuum can have non-homeomorphic versions in different submodels of the universe of all sets. This requires large cardinals, and we obtain an exact consistency strength: Theorem 1. The following are equiconsistent : (i) ZFC + ∃κ a Jónsson cardinal ; (ii) ZFC + ∃M a sufficiently elementary submodel of the universe of sets ...

While noise is a phenomenon present in many real-world optimization problems, the understanding of its potential e ects on the performance of evolutionary algorithms is still incomplete. This paper investigates the e ects of noise for the in nite-dimensional quadratic sphere and a (1+1)-ES with isotropic normal mutations. It is shown that overvaluation as a result of failure to reevaluate paren...