Fluidic automation, the practice of programmatically manipulating small fluids to execute laboratory protocols, has led vastly increased productivity for biologists and chemists. Most fluidic programs, commonly referred as are written using APIs that couple protocol specific hardware by referring physical locations on device. This coupling makes isolation impossible, preventing portability, con...

Abstract Beyond ethnographic portrayals of religious competition as conducive to rupture and separation, this article shows forms intradenominational competitive coexistence that allow for both the social reproduction community faith change innovation. In a Spanish village, Catholic congregants compete not only secure worldly resources such priestly time or church-owned spaces, but also over le...

in iran, for column design, double i shape section is used due to lack of ipb profile. double i shape column performance is ambiguous in existing steel structures, especially when subjected to seismic loading. in this paper, double i shape column behavior is evaluated with 3d nonlinear analyses. monotonic behavior of 6 specimens and hysteretic behavior of other six specimens have been simulated...