The evolution of building codes typically produce design provisions that are expected to create safer and more accurate designs. We as engineers expect building codes to advance the state of the art with each successive edition. The 2009 International Building Code (IBC) and the Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-08) have significant revisions affecting the design of ti...

The patient presented herein, is a 29-yearold man with history of unilateral alkaline chemical injury 14 years ago. Upon referral, visual acuity was 20/20 and the examination was unremarkable in the right eye. Vision was hand motions (HM) in his left eye and a small angle exotropia (10-15 Prism Diopters) was evident. Slitlamp examination revealed severe corneal opacification and vascularization...

*Corresponding author: Hossein Ali Adineh, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Iranshahr, Iran; Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. Tels: +98 9156388799, +98 5437222230 E-mail: [email protected] This study protocol was performed according to the Helsinki Declaration and was assessed for...

This paper estimates reduced-form Phillips curves for Brazil with a framework of time series with unobserved components, in the spirit of Harvey (2011). However, we allow for expectations to play a key role using data from the Central Bank of Brazil’s Focus survey. Besides GDP, we also use industrial capacity utilization rate and IBC-Br index, as measures of economic activity. Our findings supp...

To improve accuracy and reliability, Boolean combination (BC) can efficiently integrate the responses of multiple biometric systems in the ROC space. However, BC techniques assume that recognition systems are conditionally-independent and that their ROC curves are convex. These assumptions are rarely valid in practice, where systems face complex environments, and are designed using limited enro...

Title 1 Observing Motor Learning Produces Somatosensory Change 2 3 4 Nicolò F. Bernardi1,2, Mohammad Darainy1,3, Emanuela Bricolo2, David J. Ostry1,4 5 6 1 McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 1B1 7 2 University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy, 20126 8 3 Shahed University, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran 9 4 Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, 06511 10 11 Corresponding author 1...

We study the kidney market in Iran. The most effective treatment for end-stage renal disease is a kidney transplant. While the supply of cadaveric kidneys is limited, the debate has been focused on the effects of the existence of a free market for human organs. Economists as well as medical and legal researchers are divided over the issue. Iran has a unique kidney market which has been in place...

A description is given of the events associated with decisions and actions by IEEE to close the IEEE Iran Section and impose restrictions on IEEE members in Iran from 2000 onwards. Index Terms —IEEE Policy and Procedures, IEEE Member services, IEEE Regions, IEEE Sections, IEEE Student Branches. I. IEEE AND IRAN BEFORE THE OFAC [2] INFLUENCE The Iran Section of IEEE was founded in February 1970....

Data-Driven Inversion-Based Control (D-IBC) is a recently introduced control design method for uncertain nonlinear systems, relying on a two degree-of-freedom architecture, with a nonlinear controller and a linear controller running in parallel. In this paper, extending to the MIMO case a previous result holding for the SISO case, we derive a finite-gain stability sufficient condition for a clo...