Value management (VM) and its integration in the whole life cycle (WLC) have become huge concepts for construction projects to provide additional value of an asset end user or client. However, role VM as part WLC a project remain reactive, highly impacted by nature project, this has more challenging with epidemic impact COVID-19. This research aims investigate mechanisms that delivers “re-inven...

Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is one of the essential alternative sources water that may be used. However, finding potential RWH locations on a broad scale has always been challenging, requiring further research. The effectiveness structures depends their design and selection suitable sites. This study aimed to select sites for rainwater in Garmian region Kurdistan-Iraq, using GIS Remote Sensing (...

With the advent of zSeries processors and z/OS, IBM decided to offer a new software cost structure. The new pricing structure, Sub-Capacity Workload License Charges, attempts to reduce the cost of key IBM software in the z/OS environment. This paper discusses the author’s experiences with Sub-Capacity License Charges, the tools available to help manage the LPARs running sub-capacity WLC, result...

Atomic force microscopy force spectroscopy has become a powerful biophysical technique for probing the dynamics of proteins at the single molecule level. Extending a polyprotein at constant velocity produces the now familiar sawtooth pattern force-length relationship. Customarily, manual fits of the wormlike chain (WLC) model of polymer elasticity to sawtooth pattern data have been used to meas...

The 14-18 amino acid kinesin neck linker domain links the core motor to the coiled-coil dimerization domain. One puzzle is that the neck linker appears too short for the 4 nm distance each linker must stretch to enable an 8 nm step - when modeled as an entropic spring, high inter-head forces are predicted when both heads are bound to the microtubule. We addressed this by analyzing the length of...

OBJECTIVES To develop the diagnostic criteria for benign and neoplastic conditions of the urinary tract using probe-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (pCLE), a new technology for dynamic, in vivo imaging with micron-scale resolution. The suggested diagnostic criteria will formulate a guide for pCLE image interpretation in urology. METHODS Patients scheduled for transurethral resection of bl...

Using a sample of 45 women, this study compared the effectiveness of a previously studied (Mintz, Balzer, Zhao, & Bush, 2012) bibliotherapy intervention (Mintz, 2009), a similar self-help book (Hall, 2004), and a wait-list control (WLC) group. To examine intervention effectiveness, between and within group standardized effect sizes (interpreted with Cohen's, 1988 benchmarks .20 = small, .50 = m...

We provide a unified theory for the high force entropic elasticity of biopolymers solely in terms of the persistence length, ξp , and the monomer spacing, a. When the force f>ℱ h ~ kBTξp /a2 the biopolymers behave as freely jointed chains (FJCs) while in the range ℱ l ~ kBT/ξp <f<ℱ h the worm-like chain (WLC) is a better model. We show that ξp can be estimated from the force extension curve (FE...

BACKGROUND Many pain patients appreciate biofeedback interventions because of the integration of psychological and physiological aspects. Therefore we wanted to investigate in a sample of chronic back pain patients whether biofeedback ingredients lead to improved outcome of psychological interventions. METHOD One hundred and twenty-eight chronic back pain patients were randomly assigned to co...