the current building codes provide limited prescriptive guidance on design for protection of buildings due to progressive collapse. progressive collapse is a situation in which a localized failure in a structure, caused by an abnormal load, such as explosions or other happenings. three procedures, often employed for determination of the structural response during progressive collapse i.e. linea...

The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of culture and communication style (explicit versus implicit) on people’s reactions on recommendations in intercultural collaboration. The experimental results from three intercultural collaboration teams were studied: Chinese-American, Chinese-German, and Chinese-Korean. The results indicate that Chinese participants showed more positive...

Arabic language is characterized by extensive use of dots or secondary characters associated with main body or primary characters. More than half of the Arabic characters can only be distinguished by these secondary characters. Hence recognition of these characters has a vital importance in Arabic OCR. In printed text the problem is much easier than handwritten text because of the variety of sh...

Load modeling is widely used in power system studies. Two types of modeling, namely, static and dynamic, are employed. The current industrial practice is the static modeling. Static modelss are algebraic equations of active and reactive power changes in terms of voltage and frequency deviations. In this paper, a component based on static modeling is employed in which the aggregate model is deri...

In this research foliar anatomy of seven species of Avena are studied under the light microscope and the scanning electron microscope (SEM). This study includes seven species, namely, A. barbata, A. clauda, A. eriantha, A. fatua, A. ludoviciana, A. sativa and A. wiestii. Different anatomical characters sush as number of bulliform cells, mesophyll thickness, midrib, number of vascular bundles fr...

A total of 200 threadfin bream Nemipterus japonicus was collected from Chennai in the east coast and Kochi in the west coast during January to February 2013 and studied for their morphometric and meristic characters. In total, 21 characters were analyzed out of which 3 characters namely dorsal, ventral and anal fins were not considered since they were unaltered. The findings indicate that 91% o...