It is an effective way to improve the flexural behavior of reinforced concrete (RC) members by externally bonded carbon fiber reinforcement polymer (CFRP) laminates on the soffit of the members. However, there is little investigation on flexural performance of RC beam flexurally strengthened by side-bonded FRP laminates. To investigate the flexural behavior of RC beams side-bonded CFRP laminate...

475 Evidence-based practice recently has been an important theme in health care services. Literature in the area of psychiatry has proliferated. Beginning with the January issue of Psychiatric Services in 2001, a regular column has run on evidence-based practices in different aspects of psychiatry. Themes of the column have been severe mental illness (Torrey et al., 2001), routine mental health...

On the basis of analytic method and skill, a strengthened version of well-known Hardy's inequality is obtained. In comparison with some similar results given in recent decades, it successfully reduced the related coefficient.