Tests were conducted to compare the performance characteristics of school chairs constructed with pinned but unglued round mortise and tenon joints with those of chairs with glued but unpinned joints. Chairs with 0.125-inch cross pins in 0.723-inch diameter tenons developed over 90 percent of the strength of the chairs with glued tenons, whereas chairs with 0.313-inch diameter pins developed on...

This research is motivated by the Omani government’s desire to reduce tax avoidance and bolster revenue collected from financial institutions. The purpose of this paper examine impact overlapped audit committee (AC) chairs other directors on practice whether they play a monitoring or advisory role in practice. As measure AC chairs, we used dummy variable indicate an chair sits committees within...

Why do lawmakers resort to physical violence in some parliaments but not others? Brawls only constitute a stark break with democratic norms and ideals, they also affect voter perceptions have been seen as bellwether for conflict backsliding. Yet, the phenomenon remains poorly understood. This paper introduces new, original dataset recording reported incidents of fights across globe between 1980...

Objectives This research was intended to provide a greater understanding of the context and needs of aged care seating, specifically:To conduct an audit of typical chairs used in aged care facilities;To collect data about resident and staff experiences and behaviour around chairs in order to gain a deeper understanding of the exact issues that residents and staff have with the chairs they use a...

China is experiencing a syphilis epidemic of enormous proportions. The regions most heavily affected by syphilis correspond to regions where sexually transmitted HIV infection is also a major public health threat. Many high-risk patients in China fail to receive routine syphilis screening. This missed public health opportunity stems from both a failure of many high-risk individuals to seek clin...

This paper presents a distributed broadband multimedia information service that is realised within the project EPRICOM that is supported by the European Union within the ACTS program. The primary idea of the EPRI-COM information service is to provide in-depth information from the Europen parliament to the parliamentarians of Central and Eastern Europe supporting the integration process of these...