steel corrosion of bars in concrete structures is a complex process which leads to the reduction of the cross-section bars and decreasing the resistance of the concrete and steel materials. in this study, reliability analysis of a reinforced concrete beam with corrosion defects under the distributed load was investigated using the enhanced hasofer-lind and rackwitz-fiessler (ehl-rf) method base...

The expectation and the mean of partitions generated by a cluster ensemble are not unique in general. This issue poses challenges in statistical inference and cluster stability. In this contribution, we state sufficient conditions for uniqueness of expectation and mean. The proposed conditions show that a unique mean is neither exceptional nor generic. To cope with this issue, we introduce homo...

The protein glutaredoxin, required for GSH-dependent ribonucleotide reduction, has been purified to homogeneity from calf thymus. The preparative method consisted of ammonium sulfate precipitation and three chromatography steps on DEAEkellulose, Sephadex G-50, and CM-Sepharose. Calf thymus glutaredoxin was assayed on the basis of its inherent GSH-disulfide transhydrogenase activity. Glutaredoxi...

Abstract This article explores the shifting connotations of two key terms in propaganda texts on bilingual education policy Inner Mongolia. The are dumdadu-yin ündüsten (Ch.: Zhonghua minzu , Chinese nation) and ulus-un neidem hereglehü üge hel guojia tongyong yuyan national common language). I examine how meanings these have begun to shift as China strives shed its multinational character buil...