A rock mass is a material quite different from other structural materials used in civil engineering. It is heterogeneous and quite often discontinuous, but is one of the materials in the earth's crust, which is most used in man's construction. Ideally, a rock mass is composed of a system of rock blocks and fragments separated by discontinuities forming a material in which all elements behave in...

i) ‘English is neutral’ since no cultural requirements are tied to the learning of English, [...] English belongs to everyone or no one, or at least is quite often regarded as having this property. Ronald Wardhaugh (1987) ii) ‘English is imperialist’ What is at stake when English spreads is not merely the substitution or displacement of one language by another [...] from an awareness of this as...

BACKGROUND Despite acknowledgement that the Canadian Medical Educational Directives for Specialists (CanMEDS) framework covers the relevant competencies of physicians, many educators and medical professionals struggle to translate the CanMEDS roles into comprehensive training programmes for specific specialties. AIM To gain insight into the applicability of the CanMEDS framework to guide the ...

With great interest we read the recently published guidelines of European Resuscitation Council (ERC) on adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).1Perkins G.D. Graesner J.-T. Semeraro F. et al.European Guidelines 2021: executive summary.Resuscitation. 2021; 161: 1-60https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.003Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (41) Google Scholar, 2Olasveengen T.M. Ri...

In this article we have studied Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) using 2-aminopurine (2-AP), a structural isomer of adenine as donor and various Coumarins as acceptors inside AROSOL-OT (AOT)-water reverse micelles (RM) using steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopies. We have used three sets of FRET and all the pairs except 2-AP-Coumarin-480 exhibited quite efficient FRE...

Background Immunohistochemical (IHC) detection of multiple antigens on the same tissue section represents a major unmet technological need in research and clinical diagnostics. While primary antibodies from different species have been used with differently labeled species-specific secondary antibodies, quite often the appropriate combination of antibodies is not available. More recently, primar...

With development of technology and science and continuous increase in productivity, product life cycles are shortened and customer demands are more personalized and diversified, which makes companies face with ever changing and unpredictable competitive environment. Therefore, rapid response to market competition has become one of the main focuses and the competitive advantages. Today, one of t...

The problems of the environmental management in river basins are treated as periphery problems. Though, these areas are often included in great reserves of natural resources of the nation, their contribution to the main land is quite often in terms of forest, water, wildlife, tourism and leisure industries. Forest and forest eco-systems of north-east India in general and Manipur in particular, ...

The original problem of supervised classification considers the task of automatically assigning objects to their respective classes on the basis of numerical measurements derived from these objects. Classifiers are the tools that implement the actual functional mapping from these measurements—also called features or inputs—to the so-called class label—or output. The fields of pattern recognitio...