The tension stiffening index is a critical factor which improved their effect on the torsional behavior of fibrous reinforced concrete beams which included the bond strength between the reinforcement and the concrete, and the amount of reinforcement indexes. Thus, this paper highlights the effect of the tension stiffening index on the torsional resistance of ultra-high performance fiber reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) beams under pure torsion. Therefore, four under-reinforced ultra-high performance fiber reinforced concrete beams were cast and tested under pure torsion which contains the fixed amount of longitudinal and transverse reinforcements, while the grade and the rib pattern on the surface of reinforcement have been changed. Test results verified that the torsional resistance, stiffness of the cracked section and the twisting angle were improved at the crack and peak loads due to a reduction in the tension stiffening index. However, the axial strains in transverse and longitudinal reinforcements.

This paper presents the results of systematic analysis of joints trends in the rock masses exposed in the stretch between Al-Rawnah and Al-Huriyah areas, northwest of Taiz city, Yemen, using Fabric-8 software technique. From the field investigations and structural relations between the various lithounits, the exposed rock masses in the study area are classified into four litho-tectonic units viz., from bottom to the top:1) basement rocks, 2) Amran limestone rocks, 3) Al-Tawillah sandstone rocks and 4) volcanic rocks. Results of the study indicate that the rock units of the study area are cut and deformed by NNW-SSE, NE-SW, WNW-ESE, N-S, and E-W trending joints. NNW-SSE and NE-SW trends are the most predominant trends influencing the rock units of the study area. The dominant and major NNW-SSE trend correlates to the direction of the maximum extensional stress associated with the Red Sea rift system, while the second one (NE-SW) is perturbed regional stress field related to the direction of the stress generated during the opening of the Gulf of Aden. The basement rocks are commonly affected by both vertical and conjugate joints. The conjugate joints are represented by X and Y types, although T and H types were also recognized. Amran limestone rocks are affected by subvertical joints in addition to asymmetric with symmetric joints of veins filled by calcite minerals. Orthogonal cross joins, conjugate joints, polygonal joints and exfoliation joints were documented in Al-Tawillah sandstone rocks. Columnar jointing, plumose structures, horsetail fractures, kink joints and exfoliation joints are commonly observed in the volcanic rocks. This study indicates that the fracture spacing, orientation and thickness of the rock mass and patterns of fractures are controlled by lithology and structural evolution of the study area.

The State of Qatar has been undergoing radical transformation, coordinated by the national development planning strategy, to realise the aims of Qatar National Vision 2030 (QNV-2030). Efforts towards sustainable urban growth and development have included the establishment of a new transportation system, as well as transitoriented developments (TODs), which significantly enhanced pedestrians‘ access to amenities and facilities, particularly during major events. This research study aims to develop alternative design strategies for public transit systems and land use amidst the larger challenge of urban metamorphosis focused on boosting sustainability by enhancing liveability. The Al Sadd district was selected as a case study due to (1) its significance as one of the oldest mixed-use districts in Qatar, with a significant role in the economic development of Doha; (2) its many layers, which have overlapped; and (3) its lack of heritage significance. Data, gathered from both primary and secondary sources, consisted of questionnaires, site visits, walk-through observations, focus groups and structured interviews. The use of these research methods facilitated the exploration of the physical forms and sociocultural characteristics of the area, enhancing understanding of the urban quality, and providing inputs for a strategy to enhance the urban sustainability and liveability of the district.

In the current social scenario, trauma is on the rise, which leads to physical, mental as well as social consequences. If the coping skill of an individual is not able to manage the stress, it may lead to an acute stress reaction. If it retains more than 1 month and satisfies the diagnostic criteria, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the condition. It can be considered as the alteration of the functions of manas as per Ayurveda due to the resulted irreplaceable loss. The acute stress reaction needs psychological support and in case of PTSD, Ayurvedic medication along with selected satwavajaya techniques and yoga therapy tends to produce better results. Selected sodhana procedures along with internal medications including rasayanas are useful in this regard. The prime knowledge so as to diagnose a case of PTSD is a must for a general practitioner as the prevalence is on the rise and immediate intervention produces better results.

The purposes of the research were to find out the significances of the implementation of simulation technique and the using of posters as visual aids in improving students’ social interaction and creative thinking. Semester II English students of Muslim Nusantara University Medan were selected as the population of the research, then, two classes were chosen of the sample of the research y applying random purposive sampling. Moreover, quantitative research method was used with factorial design 2 X 2 to achieve the aims of the research. based on the data analyzed, this research found out that students’ social interaction taught by implementing simulation technique and using the poster was being extremely higher with 80,05 than experimental class II with 68,68. Then, the indicator average of creative thinking also showed a very significant effect in which experimental class II was 86,69, while experimental class II was only 60,75. Moreover, there was an interaction occured between technique simulation with the poster with student’s creative thinking toward students’ social interaction with Fobsesrved>Ftablewith 294,740 > 4,00 and Sig < 0,05 with 0,000< 0,05, and with Fobsesrved189,190 >Ftable4,00 and with Sig 0,000 < 0,05. Last, there was an interaction between simulation technique and poster in which simulation technique was being much more effective combined with poster as visual aids with sig <prob (0,000 < 0,05). In conclusion, students whose higher creative thinking in creating the poster would have higher social interaction in EFL speaking class in which the more frequent student’ social interaction in the classroom, the higher speaking skill achieved.

In the food industry, some additives such as carob bean gum are highly sought after thanks to their power to present, even at low concentrations, a particular texture, guaranteeing stability, attending sanitary quality, and improving the taste and appearance of food. The main problem in the valorization of such seeds is the presence of shrinkage phenomenon issued from the airflow drying, which would lead to altering the functional quality. It would be also possible to meet among the problems, the risks of contamination by microbes, insects and larvae. It is obvious that an adequate intensification of the drying should address such issues while preserving the functional quality. The current work aimed at identifying the ability of DIC (instant controlled pressure-drop) processing to confer the seeds higher porosity, better tortuosity, greater exchange surface, that they get better aptitude to dry, to allow an effective decontamination that it can even reach a sterilization level of these seeds, while, by instant cooling, to preserve even improve their own functional (rheological) quality. The kinetic of DIC-assisted airflow drying was analyzed using the phenomenological Coupled Washing/Diffusion (CWD) model. Since DIC is a perfectly controlled hightemperature/short-time process, an adequate Design of Experiment DoE was used through operating parameters of saturated steam pressure (P), processing time (t), and number of cycles (c), to measure the washing starting accessibility and the effective diffusivity. It, also, was possible to assess the functional properties and rheological attributes, for systematically performing the statistical calculation of the DoE using Statgraphics software.

European imperialism and eventual process of colonization of Africa was largely characterised by arbitrary attack on African political and social structures. The consequence of this action was the rise of African independent movements. These movements whether militia, religious (churches) or educational (schools) were founded by charismatic personalities who attracted followers through their lifestyle, preaching and healing, attributed to the power of the Holy Spirit. This study provides a critical appraisal of the life and the educational role played by John Owalo in the establishment of the first independent schools and church movement in colonial Africa the Nomiya Luo Mission.

In recent studies, specific neurons were discovered in the brain which is devoted to a single person or object. For example, various pictures of Jennifer Aniston elicited a response in the same specific neuron unit inside the temporal lobe. In this study, I aimed to explore the relationship between beta waves and famous face processing by electroencephalography (EEG). Two healthy volunteers participated in this study (one male). EEG recordings were taken from while they were watching pictures of famous (20) and fameless (20) people pictures with a 32 channel EEG recording system. Beta power values in the temporal lobe were analyzed from the EEG data. Beta power values were 20, 15µV2 and 12, 25 µV2 for famous people and fameless people, respectively. Face-specific neurons are located in the temporal lobe and beta wave considered related to higher cognitive functions. I concluded higher beta power value for famous people as famous‐specific neurons create more electrical activity than non‐specific visual neurons in the temporal lobe. This was a prestudy and I believe that this study paves the way to explore the role of the beta wave in processing ‘Jennifer Anderson photos’

Criticim Republic of Indonesia Law Number 13 of 2003 concerning Manpower is often the spotlight of labor activists. The "outsourcing" employment contract system for plantation workers is seen as a practice of fragmentation, degradative, discriminatory and exploitative effects on workers. Researchers on Nias migrant workers in Pelalawan Riau HTI plantations are interpretations of the meaning of the assumption of labor exploitation with a qualitative method approach. Results of research on Nias migrant workers in HTI found that the application of the outsourcing system is one form of labor exploitation. The level of education and openness to initial information when in the recruitment process does not work properly. Workers are "locked up" by agents through power structures that influence each other in dominant and subordinate power. Model debt and payroll system it does not bring prosperity, instead, workers are trapped in a cycle of poverty and exploitative. The head of the group (kepala rombongan) (KR) as a “wild agent" and the contractor of the company providing labor actually became an exploitative agent. The dream of workers getting social security, THR, and welfare is gone when they see the situation they are treated like a slave. Finally, Nias migrant workers can only come out if they struggle through resistance and are assisted by "hands" of observers engaged in the struggle for labor advocacy.

The study conducted was to evaluate the quality of oral pediatric antimalarials drugs found in the formal and informal sectors of the city of Douala: particular case of syrups and suspensions of quinine and some powders for oral suspension of artemether-luméfantrine. An analytical study was made on 100 samples selected at random sanitary formations, whole salers distributors and markets of illicit distribution found in the various districts of the city of Douala at which the takings were made. The labeling, the visual aspect, the pharmaco-technical parameters (pH, density, volume) and physic chemical parameters (identification, dosage and stability of actives ingredients) of the different samples were estimated. The results of the analyzes showed an global rate of non-compliance of 77%, the informal sector was the most represented with 92% of its samples non-compliant as compared to 62% in the formal sector. The pharmaco-technical non-compliance concerns the pH with 30%, then the density with 46.7% and the volume 46.7%. The physico-chemical non-compliance concerns the identification of the active substance with 2% and the dosage of active substances with 77%. As regard the stability of the reconstituted suspensions, the pH was stable during 14 days after the reconstitution whereas 22.7% of samples saw their concentration of artemether reduce more than 10% and 41.4% of samples for the lumefantrine. In view of all this, the WHO recommends instead the use of dispersible compressed forms for the treatment of simple malaria in children

The epileptic power supply in the society today has become a chronic problem in our industrial sector. This inconsistence in power supply can be outwitted by using biological gas like improving biogas electrical power output using fuzzy logic controller. This can be done in this manner, characterizing the network under study, designing a membership function that analyzes the increase of biogas electrical power, designing a fuzzy rule that sticks in the increase of biogas electrical power output, designing a Simulink model for Improving biogas electrical power output using fuzzy logic controller and comparing the percentage biogas electrical power increase with and without fuzzy controller. The result obtained shows that biogas electrical power output without using fuzzy is 8KW while when fuzzy is incorporated is 10.77KW which is 14.78% increase when fuzzy controller is incorporated than when it was not imbibed.

Student satisfaction is one of the parameters of the success of university services. Student satisfaction will greatly affect their loyalty to the university. Mercu Buana University student satisfaction can be influenced by several factors such as learning methods, lecture support facilities, and the quality of student lecture services. Based on the results of the pre-study, it can be concluded that there are still many Mercu Buana University students who were dissatisfied during their studies at Mercu Buana University. Student dissatisfaction is much influenced by service facilities, lecture methods, and lecture support facilities. Descriptive research can be obtained a description of the problem formulation regarding the satisfaction of students of the Master of Management program at Mercu Buana University campus Kranggan. Hypothesis testing research methods can answer the allegations that exist in the phenomenon of the satisfaction of students of the Master of Management program at Mercu Buana University campus Kranggan. In this study a sample of 100 university management master students from Mercu Buana Kampus Kranggan took samples. In this study, quantitative methods will be used in which to measure an object related to the phenomenon that occurs (Sugiyono, 2012). The data collection in this study was carried out by simple random sampling technique. Which is assisted by a questionnaire? As for the weighting of the Likert scale

Combined with the advantages of Wavelet threshold denoising method and data fusion technology. A data processing method of thermal measurement based on wavelet transform and data fusion is proposed. After decomposing the thermal measurement signal of each measuring point separately by wavelet decomposition, the high frequency components are first filtered by the threshold noise reduction method, and then the signal of each measuring point after noise reduction is got by wavelet reconstructing to reduce the influence of noise, and then , we normalize the signal of each measuring point, and make the data fusion based on the least mean square of the normalized measuring points, so as to obtain a better reconstructed signal. The experimental results show that this method improves the accuracy and reliability of the measured data and makes the signal features more apparent.

Down syndrome (DS) is a common chromosomal anomaly. Congenital heart disease (CHD) is main prognostic factor contributing to a favourable or unfavourable outcome in these patients. To study the patterns of congenital heart diseases in children with Down syndrome. Hospital based descriptive type of observational study of 70 patients conducted at SPMCHI, Jaipur from April 2012 to Sept 2013. There were 70 DS children; 46 (65.71%) male and 24 (34.29%) female. Congenital heart disease was detected in 47 (67.14%) DS children. Out of those, 95.74% were detected as acyanotic heart disease and 4.26% were cyanotic heart disease. Total 73 congenital heart defects were detected in 47 DS children with CHD. In these children, 46.81% have single defect, 31.91 % have 2 defects and 21.28 % have multiple defects. In total congenital heart defects ASD (41.10%) was the commonest congenital heart defect followed by PDA (21.92%) and VSD (15.07%). It is imperative to know about presence of congenital heart disease in Down syndrome children. Contrary to result of most of other workers who observed atrioventricular septal defect was commonest defect. In present study ASD, PDA and VSD were the commonest CHD in order of frequency

According to the non-stationary characteristics of wind power, a novel wind power combined multi-step prediction model based on differential auto regressive moving average model in variational mode decomposition and time series analysis is proposed. Firstly, the wind power sequence is subjected to variational mode decomposition to reduce the non-stationary characteristics of the wind power sequence. Secondly, the ARIMA model is established for each component. Finally, the component prediction results are superimposed to obtain the final wind power prediction value. The experimental results show that the proposed combined prediction model has higher prediction accuracy.