failure of the quay walls due to earthquakes results in severe economic loss. because of hazards threatening such inexpensive nodes of national and international transportation networks, seismic design of quay walls is still an evolving topic in marine structural engineering. this study investigates the sensitivity of the gravity-type quay wall stability respect to uncertain soil and seismic pr...

Because of growing populations, more people living in cities, and higher incomes, the demand for food has changed both quantity quality. This sped up growth different agricultural production distribution chains. The necessary transition processes agri-food sectors, however, can often take a very long time to complete have negative social environmental effects, which puts traditional development...

poly(vinyl acetate) is synthesized via solution polymerization, and then it is converted to poly(vinyl alcohol) by alkaline alcoholysis. the aim of the work study was to investigate statistically the  influence of reaction variables in vinyl acetate polymerization, the conversion of this monomer to polymer, degree of branching of acetyl group in poly(vinyl acetate), as well as the molecular wei...

As a follow-up to a previous assessment of complications of sleep-disturbed breathing in 265 patients, we have reevaluated measures of sleepiness and hypertension in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) (n = 518), central sleep apnea (n = 50), and subclinical sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) (n = 107). Both subjective and objective (multiple sleep latency test [MSLT]) measures indicated ...

Decision Support System or DSS is a branch of computer science to help person group in making decision. In decision, it has conditions such as there must be choice candidate commonly referred an alternative and also criteria option consideration, the themselves are most important part determining feasibility decision making, each criterion its own value provided by maker but makes not clear on ...

Past research has provided evidence that older adults have more difficulty than younger adults in discriminating small differences in lifted weight (i.e., the difference threshold for older adults is higher than that of younger adults). Given this result, one might expect that older adults would demonstrate similar impairments in weight ratio perception (a suprathreshold judgment) compared to y...

BACKGROUND Although hospitalized children are at risk of malnutrition, routine screening of nutritional status has been hindered by lack of a validated nutritional assessment tool. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to develop a simple pediatric nutritional risk score that could be used at hospital admission to identify patients at risk of acute malnutrition during hospitalization. DESIGN Nutritional ri...