The use of “ductile seismic frames,” whose proper seismic behavior largely depends upon construction details and specific design rules, may do not always lead to effective seismic resistant structures, as dramatically denounced by the famous Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in his artwork Straight. The artwork (96 t of undulating metal bars that were salvaged from schools destroyed by the 2008 Sichuan,...

Consistent stochastic orders of processing times and objective functions yield optimal policies in many stochastic scheduling problems. When these orders fail to hold, however, finding optimal values may be difficult. In this paper, we show how to bound these values in general situations including problems with unreliable machines and tardiness-based objectives.

A REGIMENTED PROGRAM OF RESISTANCE TRAINING CAN PROVIDE A MULTITUDE OF BENEFITS FOR THE PREGNANT WOMAN. HOWEVER, A WOMAN UNDERGOES SIGNIFICANT PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES THROUGHOUT THE TERM, AND THESE ISSUES NEED TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT WHEN DESIGNING A ROUTINE. THEREFORE, THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER WILL BE 3-FOLD: (A) REVIEW THE BENEFITS OF MATERNAL RESISTANCE EXERCISE, (B) DISCUS...

In our daily lives, the advances of new technology can be used to sustain development for people across the globe. Particularly, e-government can be the dynamo of the development for the people. E-government services are intended to be responsive, citizen-centric based and social inclusive. It also engages citizen to participate in the process of delivery of services. Consequently, users can ea...

Railway interlockings are dominated by highly proprietary systems. We present the development project Alister 2.0 – an interlocking system based on industry-proven standard components: Safety PLCs in distributed nodes communicate over safe network protocols. This enables a highly productive and highly maintainable fail-safe interlocking system for centralised traffic control.

Open disclosure of unanticipated outcomes to patients is a key component of patient-centered care and is incresingly mandated by hospital acrreditation requirements and some state laws. Yet, transparent communication with patients about unanticipated outcomes appears to be the exception rather than the rule. We describe why the current approach to disclosure is broken and review a new Safe Prac...

Herbal medicine, botanical medicine, phytotherapy, alternative medicine or, complimentary medicine are terms used to describe the science of using plant-based materials to treat specific symptoms or diseases. People have strong belief that natural remedies are perfectly safe. Because we have strong ties to traditional culture we use herbs and spices on daily basis. Plants are an abundant natura...

Herbal medicine, botanical medicine, phytotherapy, alternative medicine or, complimentary medicine are terms used to describe the science of using plant-based materials to treat specific symptoms or diseases. People have strong belief that natural remedies are perfectly safe. Because we have strong ties to traditional culture we use herbs and spices on daily basis. Plants are an abundant natura...

Safe, efficient liquid feeding in infant mammals requires the central coordination of oropharyngeal structures innervated by multiple cranial and spinal nerves. The importance of laryngeal sensation and central sensorimotor integration in this system is poorly understood. Recurrent laryngeal nerve lesion (RLN) results in increased aspiration, though the mechanism for this is unclear. This study...