For dynamic analyses of railway track structures, the algorithm of solution is very important. For estimating the important problems in the railway tracks such as the effects of rail joints, rail supports, rail modeling in the nearness of bridge and other problems, the models of the axially beam model on the elastic foundation can be utilized. For studying the effects of axially beam on the ela...

Suction caisson is a type of floor foundation for the offshore structures that is also called suction pile, bucket foundation, suction anchor, or sometimes ridge foundation depending on its application. In two past decades, this type of foundation has been widely used around the world as the fixed offshore foundation, anchor of the floating platforms, as well as the foundation of other marine s...

In this study, the seismic interaction of surface foundations and underground cavities was investigated. For this purpose, a parametric study of geometric dimensions of the foundation and cavity, their location, and the effect of the interaction between surface foundations and underground cavities was evaluated. The variable parameters include the ratio of the overburden height to the foundatio...

ion in programming is the process of identifying common patterns that have systematic variations; an abstraction represents the common pattern and provides a means for specifying which variation to use. Variation of pattern can be seen as a configuration of smaller patterns it contains and other patterns it is related to. This configuration can also be seen as a constant in a software’s life cy...

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of the thyroid gland, a reasonable choice of therapy would be to try to correct the alteration in the immune system that initiated the disease. However, this therapeutic approach has yet to be perfected. Therefore, the alternative course of treatment of Graves’ disease is to control the excessive production and release of the thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3), from the ...

Early in the design of the Java Modeling Language (JML) care was taken in the choice of its logical foundation to ensure that JML could accommodate run-time assertion checking, static analysis and formal verification. At the time, classical two-valued logic was adopted. Since then however, we note that the main JML tools have actually implemented differing semantics, by design. In this paper, w...

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“Philosophy cannot become scientifically healthy without an immense technical vocabulary. We can hardly imagine our great-grandsons turning over the leaves of this dictionary without amusement over the paucity of words with which their grandsires attempted to handle metaphysics and logic. Long before that day, it will have become indispensably requisite, too, that each of these terms should be ...

The Myelin Repair Foundation is pleased to present this annual review of our progress toward achieving our goal of discovering and validating effective new treatment targets for multiple sclerosis. We were extremely pleased by the rapid progress of the team both in advancing frontiers of translational scientific research and demonstrating the power of the MRF Accelerated Research CollaborationT...