This work presents the dynamic response of a pavement plate resting on a soil whose inertia is taken into account in the design of pavements by rational methods. Thus, the pavement is modeled as a thin plate with finite dimensions, supported longitudinally by dowels and laterally by tie bars. The subgrade is modeled via Pasternak-Vlasov type (three-parameter type) foundation models and the movi...

Context-aware applications, as a typical type of self-adaptive software systems, are receiving increasing attention. These applications continually adapt to environmental changes in an autonomic way. However, their adaptation may contain defects when the complexity of modeling all environmental changes is beyond a developer’s ability. Such defects can cause failure to the adaptation and result ...

The first surgical procedure, as is well known, was that performed by God on Adam. According to the Torah, God "caused unconsciousness to fall upon Adam and he slept";1 that is, God administercd an anesthetic to Adam, and then performed an operation somewhat akin to a Siamese section. The result of this was the formation of the first male and the first female. Rashi, consistent with the Talmud,...

In this paper, the (m+1)-step Adams-Bashforth, Adams-Moulton, and Predictor-Correctormethods are used to solve rst-order linear fuzzy ordinary dierential equations. The conceptsof fuzzy interpolation and generalised strongly dierentiability are used, to obtaingeneral algorithms. Each of these algorithms has advantages over current methods. Moreover,for each algorithm a convergence formula can b...

It is a standard assumption that subordinate clauses like relative, embedded declarative, and interrogative clauses in natural language vary according to their morphosyntactic and semantic characteristics. Their morphosyntactic variation is expressed in the presence/absence of a wh-word, a relative pronoun, or an overt complementizer; syntactic transparency (embedded declaratives) or opacity (e...

PURPOSE The ADAMs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase) and the ADAMTSs (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin-like motifs) are extracellular proteases that mediate cellular interactions and cell signaling via the modulation of adhesion and the cleavage of cell surface protein ectodomains and extracellular matrix molecules. Gene expression profiling was undertaken to better un...