This paper presents a parametric study of steel I- beam with stepped flanges by using finite element analysis. Stepped flange beam is used in structures to decrease the negative bending moments near interior supports that causes failure due to buckling. Steps in the cross section can be achieved by adding cover plates to the beam flanges, changing the size of the hot rolled section, or changing...

Studies of circulating T (CD3(+)) lymphocytes have shown that on a population basis T-cell numbers remain stable for many years after HIV-1 infection (blind T-cell homeostasis), but decline rapidly beginning approximately 1.5-2.5 years before the onset of clinical AIDS. We derived a general method for defining the loss of homeostasis on the individual level and for determining the prevalence of...

Aerodynamic measurements of latent (λE) and sensible heat (H) exchange were made in an intensively managed peat pasture during 2 consecutive years; the fetch was approximately 1.5 km. The surface conductance (gs) was calculated from the Penman-Monteith equation. The analysis focused on 2 successive aspects of gs: gs as a function of environment (primarily vapour pressure deficit [D]) and the en...

PURPOSE In this study, the authors investigated whether errors with subject-verb agreement in monolingual Dutch children with specific language impairment (SLI) are influenced by verb phonology. In addition, the productive and receptive abilities of Dutch acquiring children with SLI regarding agreement inflection were compared. METHOD An SLI group (6-8 years old), an age-matched group with ty...

Biologists have discovered a kind of weakly electric fish that identifies its prey by using active electrolocation in virtual darkness. In this study, we built an underwater system platform designed to investigate the biological mechanism allowing these distinguish objects and determine how amplitude information-frequency characteristic (AIFC) response are affected geometric characteristics tar...

We experimentally demonstrate wideband dispersion-free slow light in chirped photonic crystal coupled waveguides (PCCW). In unchirped PCCWs, the zero group velocity can occur at an inflection point of a photonic band of even symmetric mode. The even symmetric mode is selectively excited by connecting the device with input and output waveguides through optimized branch and confluence structures....