exceeded losses of nonstructural components from structural ones in most demolished buildings in previous earthquakes and its limitation on functionality of critical facilities and building serviceability after earthquakes should be got the point of view for accounting loss of building as a merit for building performance. this paper attempts to demonstrate the significant role of distribution p...

The coefficient of correlation evaluates the similarity of two sets of measurements (i.e., two dependent variables) obtained on the sameobservations. The coefficient of correlation indicates the amount of information common to two variables. This coefficient takes values between −1 and +1 (inclusive). A value of 0 indicates that the two series of measurement have nothing in common. A value of +...

BACKGROUND Few studies have addressed the challenges associated with international students as they adapt to studying medicine in a new host country. Higher level institutions have increasing numbers of international students commencing programmes. This paper explores the experiences of a cohort of students in the early years of medical school in Ireland, where a considerable cohort are from an...

according to many scholars, social apathy is considered retaining ring dichotomy development-underdevelopment in modern societies. indeed, apathy is a kind of cynical and feeling paranoid, a passive process and social depression. from the perspective of cognitive impairment, apathy in society is recognized as a social disease. as opposed to that regardless of any social and altruism in social a...

The works of T. S. Eliot and Bob Dylan seem to flow from the same spring – an agonizing sense of the contemporary human condition and the state of society – and several critics have recently begun to observe the similarities between these two writers. Through comparative readings of T. S. Eliot’s and Bob Dylan’s earlier and later works this project investigates how their religious turn influenc...