Strengthening of existing circular reinforced concrete columns by CFRP confinement

When a probability density function (pdf) is to be formed on the basis of incomplete information, the “maximum missing information” (mmi) pdf (Jaynes. Phys. Reo. 106, 62M30, 1957) is theoretically preferable. We compare the performance of Lagrangian stochastic (LS) models of vertical dispersion in the convective boundary layer. satisfying Thomson’s (J. Fluid Mech. 180,529-556, 1987) well-mixed ...

To prevent pornography from spreading on the Internet effectively, we propose a novel method of adult image detection which combines bag-ofvisual-words (BoVW) based on region of interest (ROI) and color moments (CM). The goal of BoVW is to automatically mine the local patterns of adult contents, called visual words. The usual BoVW method clusters visual words from the patches in the whole image...

The tangential equilibria are characterized by a bulk plasma velocity and a magnetic field that are perpendicular to the gradient direction. Such equilibria can be spatially periodic (like waves), or they can separate two regions with asymptotic uniform conditions (like MHD tangential discontinuities). It is possible to compute the velocity moments of the particle distribution function. Even in...

In content-based image retrieval, the representation of local properties in an image is one of the most active research issues. This paper introduces a salient region detector based on wavelet transform. The detector can extract the visually meaningful regions on an image and reflect local characteristics. An annular segmentation algorithm based on the distribution of salient regions is designe...

The complete stress field, including the microstress, the moment-stress, and the line forces are derived for the pure bending of a rigid-plastic beam of rectangular cross-section in the model of strain-gradient plasticity. The workless spherical parts of the microstress and the moment-stress tensors are incorporated in the analysis. Their determination is shown to be of importance for the fulfi...

INTRODUCTION: During the 2015–2016 academic year, plastic surgery residents accounted for nearly 4.2% of surgical residents and 0.8% of residents overall. While the number of residency programs and allotted residency positions in plastic surgery have been steadily increasing in recent years, little information exists regarding residents who are accepted for plastic surgery residency but never m...

BACKGROUND Plastic surgery is the most competitive specialty in medicine. We sought to identify factors associated with the successful match of generation Y applicants into integrated plastic surgery residency. METHODS We utilized the most recent data from the Charting Outcomes in the Match published by the National Resident Matching Program in 2011. We had data on US senior or independent ap...

BACKGROUND The plastic surgery literature is vast, consisting of a plethora of diverse articles written by a myriad of illustrious authors. Despite this considerable archive of published material, it remains nebulous as to which precise papers have had the greatest impact on our specialty. The aim of this study was to identify the most cited papers in the plastic surgery literature and perform ...