2—review of core strength correction factors

guide for obtaining cores and interpreting compressive strength results

guide for obtaining cores and interpreting compressive strength results

... range of core strengths due to single-operator error Number of cores Expected range of core strength as % of average core strength Range with 5% chance of being exceeded as % of average core strength ... average strengths will differ by more than 13% of their average 6 .2—Review of core strength correction factors The measured strength of a core depends partly on factors that include the ratio of length ... in-place strength; fcore is the core strength; and strength correction factors Fl /d, Fdia, and F mc account for the effects of the length-to-diameter ratio, diameter, and moisture condition of the core, ...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 17:40

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Confined conversion of CuS nanowires to CuO nanotubes by annealing-induced diffusion in nanochannels" ppt

Báo cáo hóa học: " Confined conversion of CuS nanowires to CuO nanotubes by annealing-induced diffusion in nanochannels" ppt

... leading to the formation of nanoparticles instead of nanotubes [20,21] Thus, the spreading of CuO and formation of CuO layer on the nanochannel surface of AAO and the confinement offered by AAO nanochannels ... Schematic illustration of the growth process of CuO nanotubes space The spreading of CuO and formation of CuO layer on the nanochannel surface of AAO and the confinement offered by AAO nanochannels ... are in the range of 50 ± nm, which agree well with those of the pores of the AAO template used, indicating fine confinement of the template pores Figure 2b gives a SEM top view of the CuS nanowire...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

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An investigation into some types of verbal responses to questions in English and Vietnamese conversation

An investigation into some types of verbal responses to questions in English and Vietnamese conversation

... always consists of a first part and a second part The utterance of a first part immediately creates an expectation of the utterance of a second part of the same pair There is a class of first pair ... the basis of evidence he has In (27), there is a clash of non-observance of the maxim of Quantity and Quality A great number of similar cases are available in Vietnamese These patterns of responses ... in the case of open-ended questions, as the responses given depend on the number of possibilities anticipated in the design of the questionnaire In a study of linguistic 20 forms of a speech...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:54

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Harvesting, oil extraction, and conversion of local filamentous algae growing in wastewater into biodiesel

Harvesting, oil extraction, and conversion of local filamentous algae growing in wastewater into biodiesel

... surface of the RRWRD launders during the month of June (2011) showed the rate of production in wastewater to be 8.5 kg/m2 This approximates to 0.85 kg of dry weight over that four-week period Mats of ... rivers to the point of being “nuisance species” [8] Harvesting of these algae from shoreline areas of lakes (e.g., Lake Michigan, USA) could be an option for additional sources of biofuel feedstocks ... consisted of some filaments up to 10 mm long, with most of the powder consisting of particles that were 1-2 mm long; the result is shown in Figure The powdering step increased the surface area of algae...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

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A study of semantic and syntactic features of idioms relating to fruits in english and vietnamese

A study of semantic and syntactic features of idioms relating to fruits in english and vietnamese

... 4.5: Frequency of Semantic and Syntactic Features of IsRTFs Expressing Success/Failure in English and Vietnamese ENGLISH amount of English idioms (N= # 3.6%) of the semantic field of VIETNAMESE ... which are good conditions for subject of culture but also the embodiment of the reflection of culture cultivation Because of such different characteristics of the East, on living environment Thus, ... least, the way of life roots in mind of agricultural and fruits The poverty of Vietnamese people could be expressed Vietnamese people, the style of synthetic thought and the idea of through the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:21

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Alternate strategies for conversion of waste plastic to fuels

Alternate strategies for conversion of waste plastic to fuels

... environmental problem of disposal of plastic waste It also offers the higher cracking ability of plastics, and the lower concentration of solid residue in the product [3] 4.2.1 Mechanism of Catalytic ... Lewis acid sites characterize acid strength of solid acids The presence of Bronsted acid sites supports the cracking of olefinic compounds [3, 19].The majority of the acid sites in crystalline ... the recovery of energy content only As most plastic waste has high heat content so it is incinerated Generation of the heat energy is the only advantage of this process The residual of this incineration...

Ngày tải lên: 27/11/2013, 21:35

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Robust Conversion of CCG Derivations to Phrase Structure Trees" pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Robust Conversion of CCG Derivations to Phrase Structure Trees" pdf

... roughly factors out the errors However, the results suggest that the performance of the CCG parsers is approaching that of the Petrov parser Conclusion By exploiting the generalised combinators of ... that the quality of converted parser output (y) is upper bounded by the quality of conversion on gold parses (x) Right: No clear correlation is present, indicating that the set of sentences that ... on all metrics of at least 1.1%, and increases exact sentence match by over 11% (both absolute) Many of the remaining errors relate to missing and extra clause nodes and a range of rare structures,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

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The Economic Effects of Restricted Access to Land in the West Bank ppt

The Economic Effects of Restricted Access to Land in the West Bank ppt

... significant number of Palestinian people in want of basic services The Ministry of Agriculture explained how too often its efforts to improve the lot of rural people are frustrated by lack of permits ... southwest of Ramallah, is one of many examples of a vital link now closed to the Palestinians 21 13 In total, the land area of the West Bank restricted from Palestinian use adds up to 38.3% of the ... of the number of reported incidents of illegal construction and squatting by Israelis in the West Bank In a similar vein, data obtained from the Ministry of Defense shows that in the period of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

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The Economic Effects of Restricted Access to Land in the West Bank pdf

The Economic Effects of Restricted Access to Land in the West Bank pdf

... significant number of Palestinian people in want of basic services The Ministry of Agriculture explained how too often its efforts to improve the lot of rural people are frustrated by lack of permits ... southwest of Ramallah, is one of many examples of a vital link now closed to the Palestinians 21 13 In total, the land area of the West Bank restricted from Palestinian use adds up to 38.3% of the ... of the number of reported incidents of illegal construction and squatting by Israelis in the West Bank In a similar vein, data obtained from the Ministry of Defense shows that in the period of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "An analysis of ecophysiological responses to drought in American Chestnut" ppt

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "An analysis of ecophysiological responses to drought in American Chestnut" ppt

... investigation of the role of xeric conditions in natural hypovirulence biocontrol of the blight fungus [16] Interestingly, post blight populations of American chestnut exist mostly in the understory of ... experiment consisted of a total of 20 randomly selected plants, chosen for repeated sampling of gas exchange, light absorption, height, leaf number, stem caliper, and canopy width Of the 20 plants, ... were calculated from the linear portion of the initial part of the light response curve and axis intercepts Model parameters of convexity or the bending rate of the curve (k) and light saturation...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

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Enhancement of tolerance development to morphine in rats prenatally exposed to morphine, methadone, and buprenorphine docx

Enhancement of tolerance development to morphine in rats prenatally exposed to morphine, methadone, and buprenorphine docx

... in dams after chronic opioid Page of 10 administration, the average number of pups per litter and the average body weight of the offspring on the first day of birth did not differ significantly ... of buprenorphine, compared with that of the animals receiving the 3rd administration of morphine or methadone (Figure 4B); moreover, the slope of tolerance development was steeper than that of ... (A) The latency and AUC of rats after receiving first injection of buprenorphine (B) The latency and AUC of rats after receiving 4th injection of buprenorphine (C) Rate of tolerance development...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

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báo cáo khoa học: " Intein-mediated site-specific conjugation of Quantum Dots to proteins in vivo" pdf

báo cáo khoa học: " Intein-mediated site-specific conjugation of Quantum Dots to proteins in vivo" pdf

... appearance of the band in the agarose gel is due to the fact that the size of the protein-QD conjugates varies greatly as a result of the Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Nanobiotechnology ... conjugation of QD's to Akt-PH-EGFP via intein mediated protein splicing (a) Schematic representation of site-specific intein-mediated conjugation of QD's to target protein (b) Co-localization of QDot585 ... Briefly, we genetically tagged EGFP fusions of the PH domains of Akt and Btk with the N-terminus half of a split intein (IN) The complementary C-terminus half of the intein (IC) was biotinylated and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

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Báo cáo y học: " Criterion distances and environmental correlates of active commuting to school in children" pps

Báo cáo y học: " Criterion distances and environmental correlates of active commuting to school in children" pps

... following formula: score on question 1a + 12*score on question 1b + 25*score on question 1c All the other subscales were scored by taking the mean of the different question scores A measure for ... following formula: score on question 1a + 12*score on question 1b + 25*score on question 1c All the other subscales were scored by taking the mean of the different question scores on a point scale ... formula: walkability z-score = z-score residential density + 2*z-score connectivity + z-score land use mix [37] Data analysis SPSS 15.0 was used to describe the characteristics of the sample Two-level...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

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Báo cáo y học: " Lineage-specific expansion of proteins exported to erythrocytes in malaria parasites" doc

Báo cáo y học: " Lineage-specific expansion of proteins exported to erythrocytes in malaria parasites" doc

... total, at least 287 of 396 exported proteins are members of families - approximately 75% of the exportome One of the major goals of this study was to determine whether a subset of exported proteins ... (FDR) as a function of score (Figure 1c) From this curve, a score threshold of 4.3 was selected, corresponding to a 5% FDR [70], meaning that we expect 5% of the resulting set of ExportPred predictions ... secondary structure prediction In the majority of these cases, the presence of a significant volume of biochemically verified data is offset by the weakness of the signal they aim to detect Although...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 16:21

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Study on situation to overcome the consequences of toxic chemicals to humans in Cam Lo District, Quang Tri province

Study on situation to overcome the consequences of toxic chemicals to humans in Cam Lo District, Quang Tri province

... there are many different figures of the amount of 2,3,7,8-TCDD (often called Dioxin) created while spraying 26 thousands of tons of 2,4-D and 24 thousands of tons of 2,4,5-T in southern Vietnam ... Interrelation of average income of households having victims of 68 Agent orange/dioxin Table 2.19 Condition of households having victims of toxic chemical in Cam 70 Lo district Table 2.20 Diseases of the ... Number of dioxin victims in families in Cam Lo district 71 Figure 2.7 Rate of labor declination of victims of toxic chemicals in communes and towns of Cam Lo district 72 Figure 2.8 Number of victims...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2015, 17:34

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Antecedents of student SI to pacificipcip in extra curricular

Antecedents of student SI to pacificipcip in extra curricular

... (SPSS) software was applied on this study to analyze and present the result of this research First of all, SPSS software was used to import data Raw data would be imported into spreadsheet of SPSS ... 40  Variance of residual test: `Changing of variance of residual can lead to inefficient estimation of regression variable (β), so that it may lead to mistake about accordance of regression ... predict the behaviour of human  Theory of reasoned action (TRA) The first one is the theory of reasoned action (Ajzen & Fishbein, 1980; Fishbein & Ajzen, 1975) The purpose of this model is to...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2015, 16:30

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thảo luận tiếng anh 1.5 VCU Topic Factors to consider in setting up a business

thảo luận tiếng anh 1.5 VCU Topic Factors to consider in setting up a business

... information and send it to head of the team Head of the team MEETING MINUTES – GROUP: Secretary Time: from pm to pm (05/04/2015) Place: campus of Viet Nam university of commerce Members: Đinh Đào ... economics of the business proposal On the other hand, family investors bring their own set of problems, including the possibility of strained relations if the investment fails A variety of funding ... for presentation • Designing slide Head of the team MEETING MINUTES – GROUP: Time: from am to am (08/04/2015) Secretary Place: campus of Viet Nam university of commerce Members: Đinh Đào Phương...

Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2015, 14:38

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Conversion of saline water to fresh water using air gap membrane distillation (AGMD)

Conversion of saline water to fresh water using air gap membrane distillation (AGMD)

... and attention you were deceived of during the course of my study iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS i TABLE OF CONTENTS iv SUMMARY xi LIST OF TABLES xv LIST OF FIGURES xvi NOMENCLATURE Chapter ... Classification of MD and process limiting factors 1.1.3 Advantages of MD 1.1.4 Areas of interest for MD research 1.2 Objectives 1.3 Chapter Scope of the thesis LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Description of major ... of membrane 29 2.3.3.2 Improvement of flow system and module 32 2.3.3.3 Improved energy efficiency with multistage/extraction 34 of condensation latent of condensation latent heat 2.3.4 Use of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:57

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Research study on the trends and patterns of corporate giving to charities in singapore

Research study on the trends and patterns of corporate giving to charities in singapore

... drafts of the dissertation I am very grateful to Professor Ann Wee, of the Department of Social Work and Psychology, National University of Singapore, and Dr Ngiam Tee Liang, Head, Department of ... top 200 most profitable companies in 1999 and 2000 have given less than 0.01 percent of their net profits to charitable causes, based on annual statements of accounts of 200 most profitable companies ... Growth of Corporate Philanthropy The growth of corporate philanthropy is attributed to a few factors, namely, resurgence of civil society initiatives, globalization of business and scale of social...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:31

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