The advancement of construction techniques and high-performance sustainable materials enables the increase span length for arch bridge. It is great importance to study theoretical ultimate Based on parabolic catenary axes, analytical solutions bridge are solved using derivation accounting strength, in-plane stability out-plane conditions, respectively. Then, use concrete, reactive powder concre...

The most commonly used method for the production of thin films is based on deposition of atoms or molecules onto a solid surface. One of the suitable method is to produce high quality metallic, semiconductor and organic thin film is Ionized cluster beam deposition (ICBD), which are used in electronic, robotic, optical, optoelectronic devices. Many important factors such as cluster size, cluster...

Slurries of rice-straw cellulose (obtained by delignification and removal of hemicelluloses from the powdered raw material) were subjected to ultrasonic waves at different intensities for various times (constant temperature). Susceptibility of the samples to cellulose-hydrolysis increased initially with pretreatment time, reaching a maximum or a constant level thereafter. Maximum glucose yi...

their movements, coupling between action and perception is probably essential to ensure high accuracy in maintaining a specific trajectory that is followed by the animal (Heisenberg and Wolf, 1988). Bats are good model systems for studying the interaction between sensory and motor systems because they use echoes from calls generated by their motor systems as sensory information. Bats cannot per...

One of the main topics of the proposed book is the computational requirements for designing a functioning mind. This could either be a “purely rational” mind or it could be a mind with affective capacity. In this paper I would like to consider whether is is meaningful to consider designing such a mind without simultaneously designing a body to go with it. We shall take a non-dualist perspective...

We found that peat moss, amended with various ratios of pellets comprised of equal proportions of biochar and wood flour, generally had chemical and physical properties suitable for service as a substrate during nursery production of plants. High ratios of pellets to peat (>50%) may be less desirable because of high C:N, high bulk density, swelling associated with water absorption, and low volu...

An operon is a functioning unit of genomic DNA containing a cluster of genes under the control of a single promoter. Gene regulation is achieved by the control of an operon through induction or repression. Operons are of two types: inducible operons and repressible operons. Inducible operon is a type of operon which gets switched on by a substrate chemical, i.e., an inducer. In a repressible op...