Reinforced concrete (RC) slabs exhibit complexities in their structural behavior under load due to the composite nature of the material and the multitude and variety of factors that affect such behavior. Current methods for determining the load-deflection behavior of reinforced concrete slabs are limited in scope and are mostly dependable on the results of experimental tests. In this study, an ...

A novel algorithm for the fast detection of hubs in chemical networks is presented. The algorithm identifies a set of nodes in the network as most significant, aimed to be the most effective points of distribution for fast, widespread coverage throughout the system. We show that our hubs have in general greater closeness centrality and betweenness centrality than vertices with maximal degree, w...

Flexible piezoelectric nanogenerators for energy harvesting are getting more and attention nowadays by converting the mechanical to electric energy. Here, an environment-friendly nanogenerator based on regenerated cellulose (RC)/MoS2 nanosheet nanocomposite successfully exhibited a relative high output voltage of 2 V current 150 nA under slight press which were 5 7.5 times higher than those nea...

Two studies examined the relationship between social comparison orientation (SCO) and two types of closeness (dimensional closeness and psychological closeness) in the context of appearance-related comparisons among women. A pilot study showed that these two types were relatively independent constructs, and provided evidence for the differential validity of the constructs. Consistent with our e...

The significance of the seismic rotational components have been overlooked in the seismic evaluation of structural behavior. As researchers have measured seismic components more accurately using sensitive rotational velocity sensor, it was observed that the magnitude of rotational components is considerable and could not be neglected. Hence, some parts of seismic damage or failure of structures...

There exist graphs of which all detours are Hamiltonian paths. Such graphs are called by Diudea (J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci. 1997, 37, 1101-1108) full Hamiltonian detour FHΔ graphs. These graphs show the maximal value of the Detour index while the minimal value of the Cluj-Detour index. A selected set of cubic graphs on 16 vertices is tested for the distribution of the relative centrality RC val...

A reading comprehension (RC) system attempts to understand a document and returns an answer sentence when posed with a question. RC resembles the ad hoc question answering (QA) task that aims to extract an answer from a collection of documents when posed with a question. However, since RC focuses only on a single document, the system needs to draw upon external knowledge sources to achieve deep...

The attachment of a relative clause (RC) has been found to differ across languages when its head noun is a complex NP. One attempt to explain the attachment differences is the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis (IPH) proposed by Fodor (1998, 2002). The goal of this paper is to show how the default phrasing of a sentence (explicit prosody), defined phonologically, differs across seven languages (Englis...