It is the purpose of this paper to introduce a computer software that is developed for the analysis of general multi degree of freedom rotor bearing systems with non-linear support elements. A numerical-analytical method for the prediction of steady state periodic response of large order nonlinear rotor dynamic systems is addressed which is based on the harmonic balance technique. By utilizing ...

Travel writings by Western visitors of the Orient have often been rebuffed for disseminating a stereotypical discourse on people and culture East. The rationale collective dismissal such narratives, however, is built upon limited canon whose myopic perspective creates monolithic Orient. It argued that since this dominant leaves nearly no room non-conformism, it has conveniently overlooked large...

Understanding the past significant changes of the East Asia Summer Monsoon (EASM) and Winter Monsoon (EAWM) is critical for improving the projections of future climate over East Asia. One key issue that has remained outstanding from the paleo-climatic records is whether the evolution of the EASM and EAWM are correlated. Here, using a set of long-term transient simulations of the climate evoluti...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinics in England are located conveniently for potential users and to assess whether there are any regional variations in accessibility. METHODS A surface model was created in ArcGIS to estimate driving times to the nearest GUM clinic and to identify the proportion of the population living more than 30 minutes drive from their near...

Biltong is a traditional South African preparation of the meat of game, salted and dried in the sun. I t can be eaten without further preparation, and pieces can conveniently be carried in the pocket. It occurred to one of us (H. E. L.), who is a South African, that biltong might be a useful addition to the sledging rations on the British North Greenland Expedition (Lewis & Masterton, 1955a, b)...

The behaviour of a discrete event dynamic system is often conveniently described using a matrix algebra with operations max and plus Such a system moves forward in regular steps of length equal to the eigenvalue of the system matrix if it is set to operation at time instants corresponding to one of its eigenvectors However due to imprecise measurements it is often unappropriate to use exact mat...

OBJECTIVE To identify the production, distribution and problems experienced with health education (HE) materials in two districts of Mashonaland East (Mash East) province of Zimbabwe. DESIGN A descriptive survey conducted in the rural districts of Mutoko and Murewa within the Province. METHODS The researcher interviewed four doctors, 30 nurses and 10 allied health workers who had been conve...

According to widely publicized WHO data “depression” is an epidemic that by 2020 is set to become the second most important cause of disease throughout the world (World Health Organization 2012). Yet, what the WHO identifies as an emerging pandemic requiring a coordinated global response, more critical voices see as the unreflective application of problematic disease labels that fail to underst...