In this article, I seek to find whether the type of government in a country affects the amount of education provided. To do this, I propose a model where political power is distributed throughout the population, and their choice to support a government is based on an observable factor; whether the government provides access to education. Using the results from this model, I propose 3 hypotheses...

Executive Summary Ensuring safety requires reducing the risk of incidents, faults and failures that can disrupt normal operations. This effort goes far beyond simply installing fail-safe controllers or a safety instrumented system. In fact, to mitigate the risk of serious incidents that can cause injury to personnel, equipment and the environment, it is important to consider safety from all asp...

1 Kathleen L. Kitto, Western Washington University, Engineering Technology, Bellingham, WA 98225, [email protected] 2 Dr. Barbara Sylvester, Western Washington University, University Writing Program, Bellingham, WA 98225, [email protected] Abstract -In teaching the Engineering Technology Department’s new ethics course, instructors from Western Washington University’s Writing Program and ...

the objective of this paper is to present a new method for protecting the lives of residents in catastrophic earthquake failures of unreinforced masonry buildings by introducing some safe rooms within the buildings. the main idea is that occupants can seek refuge within the safe rooms as soon as the earthquake ground motions are felt. the information obtained from the historical ground motions ...

structural health monitoring of cracked structures is one of beloved subject of researchers recently. consider of crack behavior in the water and energy pipeline is important because of environmental problems. in this paper consider of crack parameters in the underwater pipe subjected to mechanical transient load is investigated. for this purpose, three- dimensional parametric model of cracked ...

• A unified damage model to describe the level of as well spatial distribution damage. Local vibration modes caused by complete loss one part or more members. Fail-safe optimization problems with millions local stress constraints. Solving fail-safe a working-set method. In conventional frame structures is usually modelled removal We propose and incorporate two additional types models into desig...