corrosion of reinforcing steel and other embedded metals is the main cause of severe deterioration in reinforced concrete structures which subsequently imposes adverse effects on ultimate and serviceability limit state performance of the whole structure. in this paper, a new corrosion detection method for reinforced concrete beams, based on wavelet analysis is presented. to evaluate the capabil...

Previous research has demonstrated that destructive behavior may be reduced through noncontingent presentation of attention when attention is identified as the stimulus responsible for behavioral maintenance. Because it may not always be possible to deliver attention in all situations, we examined the extent to which alternative stimuli that have been identified through a choice assessment woul...

For patients with borderline personality disorder, separations from significant figures in their lives, including therapists, are thought to be particularly painful. According to clinical wisdom, these patients manifest aggressive and self-destructive behavior around the time of separation. However, virtually no empirical studies have been conducted to test these beliefs. In this study, the beh...

Background: Reproductive variables may play an important role on the correlation between irrational parenthood cognition (IPC) and destructive behaviors of infertile couple. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between IPC and destructive behaviors by reproductive variables in primary infertile women. Methods: The study was descriptive-analytic. 183 cases of prim...

In this paper we describe the proof of an optimisation that can be applied to tuple space based run-time systems (as used in Linda). The optimisation allows, under certain circumstances, for a tuple that has been destructively removed from a shared tuple space (for example, by a Linda in) to be returned as the result for a non-destructive read (for example, a Linda rd) for a di erent process. T...

The article discusses the features of destructive and non-destructive testing methods in framework forensic construction technical expertise. Construction inspection buildings structures course expertise is aimed at determining characteristics actual condition, both structure itself its individual elements structures. Conducting objective reliable research not possible without accurate measurem...

Whenever an auto manufacturer refreshes an existing car or truck model or builds a new one, the model will undergo hundreds if not thousands of tests before the factory line and tooling is finished and vehicle production beings. These tests are generally carried out on expensive, custom-made vehicles because the new factory lines for the model do not exist yet. The work presented in this paper ...