Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE STRUCTURAL DESIGN OF CONCRETE PAVEMENTS - PART 4 - A STUDY OF THE STRUCTURAL ACTION OF SEVERAL TYPES OF TRANSVERSE AND LONGITUDINAL JOINT DESIGNS

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEORY AND PRACTICE IN REGARD TO JOINT CONSTRUCTION IN CONCRETE PAVEMENTS IS TRACED. IT APPEARS THAT JOINTS IN CONCRETE PAVEMENTS MAY BE CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THEIR INTENDED FUNCTION: (1) THOSE DESIGNED TO PROVIDE SPACE IN WHICH UNRESTRAINED EXPANSION CAN OCCUR, (2) THOSE DESIGNED FOR THE RELIEF OR CONTROL OF THE DIRECT TENSILE STRESSES CAUSED BY RESTRAINED CONTRACTION, AND (3) THOSE DESIGNED TO PERMIT WARPING TO OCCUR, THUS REDUCING RESTRAINT AND CONTROLLING THE MAGNITUDE OF THE BENDING STRESSES DEVELOPED BY RESTRAINED WARPING. IN STUDYING THE STRUCTURAL ACTION OF JOINTS IN THIS INVESTIGATION, EACH JOINT WAS SUBJECTED TO TESTS TO DETERMINE ITS RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OR: (1) PERMITTING UNRESTRAINED EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION, (2) PERMITTING UNRESTRAINED WARPING AT THE JOINT, AND (3) REDUCING THE STRUCTURAL WEAKNESS CREATED BY THE BREAK IN THE SLAB CONTINUITY AT THE JOINT. INSTALLATION AND DETAILS OF TRANSVERSE AND LONGITUDINAL JOINTS ARE DESCRIBED. EXPANSION JOINTS SHOULD BE PROVIDED IN NO GREATER INTERVALS THAN ABOUT 100 FEET IN ORDER TO KEEP THE JOINT OPENINGS FROM BECOMING EXCESSIVE. THE SPACING OF CONTRACTION JOINTS WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE PERMISSIBLE UNIT STRESS IN THE CONCRETE. IF THIS IS RESTRICTED TO A LOW VALUE, WHICH IS DESIRABLE, CONTRACTION JOINTS SHOULD BE PROVIDED AT INTERVALS OF ABOUT 30 FEET. JOINTS TO CONTROL WARPING SHOULD BE SPACED AT INTERVALS OF ABOUT 10 FEET. THE DOWELED TRANSVERSE JOINTS INVESTIGATED WERE QUITE EFFECTIVE IN RELIEVING STRESSES CAUSED BY EXPANSION, CONTRACTION, AND WARPING, BUT THEY WERE NOT PARTICULARLY EFFECTIVE IN CONTROLLING LOAD STRESSES NEAR THE JOINT EDGE. THE DOWEL- PLATE JOINT TESTED HAS MERIT AS A MEANS FOR LOAD TRANSFER, THOUGH IT OFFERED MORE RESISTANCE TO EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION THAN IS DESIRABLE. AGGREGATE INTERLOCK AS IT OCCURS IN WEAKENED-PLANED JOINTS CANNOT BE DEPENDED UPON TO CONTROL LOAD STRESSES. EVEN WHEN JOINTS OF THIS TYPE ARE HELD CLOSELY BY BONDED STEEL BARS THERE IS WIDE VARIATION IN THE CRITICAL STRESS VALUE CAUSED BY A GIVEN LOAD. IT APPEARS NECESSARY, THEREFORE, TO PROVIDE INDEPENDANT MEANS FOR LOAD TRANSFER IN PLANE-OF-WEAKNESS JOINTS. TONGUE-AND-GROOVE JOINTS HELD TOGETHER BY BONDED STEEL BARS WERE FOUND TO BE THE MOST STRUCTURALLY EFFICIENT OF ANY OF THE JOINTS STUDIED.
The Influence of Social Media on Arabic Writing Skills among Jordanian 10th Graders'

This study aimed to investigate the influence of using social media on the 10 th graders' progress in writing skills, and their attitudes towards writing at Naour District in Amman schools, and the effect of gender, academic qualifications, educational and professional experiences. A five-point questionnaire, and a standardized writing test were sophisticated. It included three composition questions to get three paragraphs based on writing. The sample of the randomized study consisted of (1064) students of the 10 th grade. The study showed, there were no significant differences in the effect of social media towards writing skills for 10 th graders’ due to academic qualification on third domain, whereas there were significant differences on the effect of social media towards Arabic writing proficiency due to academic qualification in the first and second domains. There were also statistically significant differences on the effect of social media towards writing proficiency for 10 th graders’.
The Manager as Leader

Against the backdrop of corporate downsizings and rightsizings that have forever blurred the line between leaders and followers, The Manager as Leader presents practical strategies, tools, and techniques for developing the leadership mindset and applying it on a daily basis. The book introduces the Contextual Leadership Model, which identifies nine fundamental leadership roles and six common contexts in which leadership is exercised, and guides readers toward matching their roles and actions to the particular context at hand-as well as making adjustments when context changes. Packed with illustrative examples, diagnostic tools, worksheets, and other interactive elements, and featuring an extensive listing of resources, The Manager as Leader is a hands-on guide to the art of leadership, whether you are an executive, manager, supervisor, or aspiring leader anywhere in the organization. An invisible line between individual contributor and leader was once thought to exist, separating leaders from followers. Two decades of downsizings and rightsizings have forever blurred this distinction and left us with three fundamental challenges: (1) How can an organization elicit leadership from everyone? ; (2) How can those who choose to lead influence others to perform more effectively and efficiently than they ever thought possible? ; (3) How can leaders continue to be successful when the environment in which they lead is constantly changing? Addressing these challenges requires a certain awareness and nimbleness on behalf of the person thinking and acting as the leader, regardless of their formal position. The Manager as Leader presents practical strategies, tools, and techniques for developing the leadership mindset and applying it on a daily basis. The book introduces the Contextual Leadership Model, which identifies nine fundamental leadership roles and six common contexts in which leadership is exercised, and guides readers toward matching their roles and actions to the particular context at hand; it also shows readers how to anticipate changes in context and adjust their roles and actions accordingly. Packed with illustrative examples, diagnostic tools, worksheets, and other interactive elements, and featuring an extensive listing of resources, The Manager as Leader is a hands-on guide to the art of leadership, whether you are an executive, manager, supervisor, or aspiring leader anywhere in the organization.
Introduction to Normal Auditory Perception

Section One Acoustics Chapter 1: Simple Harmonic Motion, Sine Waves, and Pure Tones Chapter 2: Sound Transmission and Sound Waves Chapter 3: Sound Measurement and the Decibel Scale Section Two Intensity Chapter 4: Auditory Sensitivity Chapter 5: Loudness Chapter 6: Intensity Discrimination Section Three Frequency Chapter 7: Masking Chapter 8: Frequency Selectivity and the Critical Band Chapter 9: Frequency Discrimination Chapter 10: Pitch Perception Section Four Duration Chapter 11: Stimulus Duration and its Role in Audibility, Loudness, And Discrimination Chapter 12: Auditory Fatigue and Adaptation Chapter 13: Introduction to Binaural Hearing
Effects of diffusion factor, aspect ratio and solidity on overall performance of 14 compressor middle stages. [the effects of varying both diffusion through the rotor and compressor blades and blade aspect ratio]

A series of high hub tip radius ratio compressor stages representative of the middle and latter stages of axial flow compressors is discussed. The effects of aspect ratio, diffusion factor, and solidity on rotor and stage performance are determined. Fourteen middle stages are tested to study the effects on performance of varying both diffusion through the rotor and stator blades and blade aspect ratio. The design parameters in the streamline analysis program, the blade geometry program, and the blade coordinate program are presented.
Reputation Rules: Strategies for Building Your Company’s Most valuable Asset

Contents Introduction: The Second Most Important Item on the CEO's Agenda Chapter 1: Thomas Off the Rails-The Decisive Moment and How to Miss It Chapter 2: Mercedes and the Moose-Brand Management Beyond Customers Chapter 3: Shell Turns on the Water Cannons-The Growing Impact of the Second Circle Chapter 4: Of Shower Curtains and Waste Baskets-Perks, Scandals, and Moral Outrage Chapter 5:The Katrina Chronicles-Doing the Right Thing and Getting Credit for It Chapter 6: The Terminator Gene-From Outrage to Fear Chapter 7: Beat the Grim Reaper-Strategic Anticipation and the Anticipation and the Management of Reputational Risk Chapter 8: The Aim Team-How to Build a Sixth Sense Chapter 9: Andersen Before the Fall-Values, Culture, and the Teachable Moment
Syrian Women Refugees: Coping with indeterminate liminality during forcible displacement

This paper examines how forcibly displaced people cope with prolonged liminality through identity work. Our paper is based on a longitudinal multiple case study of women refugees who fled Syria and experienced liminality in Amman-Jordan, the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan and the United Kingdom. We contribute to the liminality literature by demonstrating how forcibly displaced people respond to extreme structural constraints and maintain cognitive control over their sense of self during liminality with an end date that is unknown. We develop the concept of liminality by illustrating how the actors were pushed into a state of ‘indeterminate liminality’ and coped by co-constructing it through three forms of identity work – recomposing conflicting memories, reclaiming existence and repositioning tradition. This enabled them to stretch the boundaries of indeterminate liminality, symbolically restore their familiar past and narratively construct a meaningful future.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PRODUCTION FUNCTION FOR A CONTAINER TERMINAL IN THE PORT OF MELBOURNE

DConneD Transport Openuions and Reuarch Manager Port of Melbourne Authority D I Ross Port Statistician Port of Melbourne Authority It is generally accepted that for Australia to be competitive on world markets it must become more productive. As a trading nation it is dependent on a reliable transportation system in which container terminals are a vitalHnk for the shipment of goods and commodities. The waterfront in particular· has been criticised for disadvantaging local exporters because of inefficiencies, an accusation that is all the more significant because of the large percentage of cargo that is carried by sea In order to find ways of increasing port productivity it is essential that it can be suitably measured. This paper is the study of an attempt to develop a production function for a container terminal in the Port of Melbourne as an alternative performance indicator to partial factor productivity measurement Contact author: Rudy Reker Port of Melbourne Authority World Trade Centre Melbourne Vie 3005 Telephone: (03) 611 1895 Fax: (03) 629 8121
REVIEW OF TRUCK CHARACTERISTICS AS FACTORS IN ROADWAY DESIGN

This report presents guidance for roadway geometric designers on how best to accommodate large trucks on the U.S. highway system. Under National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 15-21, a research team reviewed the range of dimensions and performance characteristics of trucks currently used on U.S. highways and predicted how these characteristics may change in response to current political, economic, and technological trends. The research team conducted an analysis of those geometric design features affected by vehicle characteristics and then evaluated the adequacy of current geometric design policy to accommodate the current and anticipated truck fleet. Based on the findings, the report makes recommendations for a number of changes to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) "Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets" ("Green Book"). The report (1) provides valuable guidance for designers of roads and facilities that need to accommodate large trucks and (2) will assist AASHTO in updating geometric design policy. The information developed in this project will also be useful as input to future editions of other documents such as the Transportation Research Board (TRB) "Highway Capacity Manual," the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) "Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices," and the AASHTO "Roadside Design Guide. "
Surface mount technology with fine pitch components : the manufacturing issues

Foreword. Introduction. Economic aspects of manufacturing. Driving forces in electronics. Basic properties of solder materials. Printing of solder pastes for fine pitch components. The printing process. The soldering process. Parameters influencing soldering results. Optimization of soldering results. Design related manufacturing problems. Manufacturing problems specific to fine pitch components. Soldering process influence on component reliability. Limitations of current surface mounting technology and new packages types. Future manufacturing technologies.
Numerical Simulations in Electro-osmotic Flow

NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS IN ELECTRO-OSMOTIC FLOW Joseph S. Tenny Department of Mechanical Engineering Masters of Science The developing flow field in a parallel plate microchannel, induced by wall motion, has been modeled numerically. This type of flow simulates the physical driving mechanism that exists in electro-osmotically generated flow with large channel diameterto-Debye length ratios (Z). The physics of the flow field were compared between the moving wall model (MWM) and electro-osmotic flow (EOF) at Reynolds numbers of 1 and 1800, and Z > 2500. Also, Z-values between 50 and 500 were studied to investigate the accuracy of the MWM. Results show that for Z-values greater than 100 the MWM shows good agreement with EOF. The dynamics of the developing flow field for the MWM were explored for channel length-to-hydraulic diameter ratios (aspect ratio) of 5, 10, 20 and 40 at ten Reynolds numbers, Re (based on the wall velocity), below Re < 2000. The results show that far from the inlet the maximum fluid velocity occurs at the walls, as is expected, and the minimum velocity occurs at the channel center. Near the channel inlet, however, the centerline velocity is not a minimum but reaches a local maximum due to a resulting pressure imbalance generated by the wall motion. As the aspect ratio increases, the centerline velocity tends to approach the wall velocity far downstream from the inlet. Increases in the Reynolds number have the opposite effect on the centerline velocity. The hydrodynamic developing region, defined by that section of the channel where the wall shear stress is changing, also depends on the channel aspect ratio and Re, and is greater than the developing region for classical pressure-driven flow of a parallel plate channel. Also, the flow field physics was analyzed for a process called electro-mobility focusing (EMF). EMF is a process that separates and detects species of like charge with the use of electro-phoresis and EOF utilizing a varying voltage gradient. The velocity distribution and the effective diffusion were solved for analytically, for both a linear and non-linear voltage gradient, using the MWM and the creeping flow approximations. The resulting equations aid in optimizing the detection system by forcing the lowest effective diffusion (uniform velocity profile) to the detection location.
Immune and clinical features of CD96 expression in glioma by large-scale analysis

Background: Immune checkpoints target regulatory pathways in T cells which enhance antitumor immune responses and elicit durable clinical responses . As a novel immune checkpoint, CD96 is an attractive key target for cancer immunotherapy. However, there is no integrative investigation of CD96 in glioma. Our study explored the relationship between CD96 expression and clinical prognosis in glioma. Methods: A total of 1,024 RNA and clinical data were enrolled in this study, including 325 samples from the Chinese Glioma Genome Atlas (CGGA) database and 699 samples from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset. R language was used to perform statistical analysis and draw figures. Results: CD96 had a consistently positive relationship with glioblastoma and highly enriched in IDH-wildtype and mesenchymal subtype glioma. GO enrichment and GSVA analyses suggested that CD96 was more involved in immune functions, especially related to T cell-mediated immune response in glioma. Subsequent immune infiltration analysis manifes ted that CD96 was positively correlated with infiltrating levels of CD4+ T and CD8+ T cells, macrophages , neutrophils, and DCs in GBM and LGG. Additionally, CD96 was tightly associated with other immune checkpoints including PD-1 , CTLA-4 , TIGIT , and TIM-3 . Univariate and multivariate Cox analysis demonstrated that CD96 acts as an independent indicator of poor prognosis in glioma. Conclusion: CD96 expression was increased in malignant phenotype and negatively associated with overall survival (OS) in glioma. CD96 also showed a positive correlation with other immune checkpoints, immune response, and inflammatory activity. Our findings indicate that CD96 is a promising clinical target for further immunotherapeutic in glioma patients.
A study of side airbag effectiveness in reducing chest injury in car to car side impacts using a human FE model

The effect of side airbag in reducing chest injury in car-to-car side impacts was studied using a human FE model (THUMS). A simulation was conducted assuming that a car was struck by another car at 50 km/h impact speed. Injuries were predicted for both front and rear seat occupants, and compared between cases with and without side airbags. Rib fractures were observed in the inferior thorax regardless of seating position without side air bags. With side air bags, on the other hand, the number of rib fractures was reduced because of smaller local deformation. The study also compares responses between the THUMS and the Euro-SID2 dummy model. For the covering abstract see ITRD E141569.
Quantifiers

We introduce two schemes of quantiﬁers analogous to the H¨artig quantiﬁer I and the Equal Coﬁnality quantiﬁer Q e.c. , which tell us about regular cardinals of small Cantor-Bendixson rank. We examine how the L¨owenheim-Skolem-Tarski numbers of these quantiﬁers interact with one another, and with those of I and Q e.c. We then ﬁnd the exact lower bound for each of the LST numbers, assuming the consistency of supercompacts.
Talent Flow: A Strategic Approach to Keeping Good Employees, Helping Them Grow, and Letting Them Go

The economy may be ascending to new heights or in a downward spiral. But no matter what the state of the economy, managers must focus their attention on the flow of employees through their organizations and how those employees perform on the job. Written by Robert Levin and Joseph Rosse--the authors of the acclaimed book High-Impact Hiring--Talent Flow shows how to develop a strategic approach that will give any organization a competitive advantage by helping it increase performance, reduce counterproductive behavior, and improve retention of top-level performers. alent Flow offers managers clear-cut advice for keeping employees who consistently deliver high performance and directions for managing (and if necessary, terminating) those who deliver poor performance. Using the same winning formula that made High-Impact Hiring such a success, the authors take a scientifically researched approach to create this highly readable and practical resource. Throughout Talent Flow, Levin and Rosse show how to deal effectively with complex issues such as performance, satisfaction, and retention in ways that will ultimately benefit both the organization and the people within it. "
Results and Conclusions from the Productivity Potential Assessment Studies

Productivity Potential Assessment (PPA) has been used in 45 studies of manufacturing companies in Sweden. The overall conclusion is that there is a great potential for improving the efficiency and ultimately the profitability and the ability for long term survival of these companies. The key issue is to start with the basics; in terms of correct operation and set-up times, routines for follow–up of times and costs, manual work standards, ideal cycle times for machines, and so on. Too many companies are trying to make shortcuts, intentionally or against better knowledge, investing time and money in expensive IT support system and the latest management philosophy. These investments usually never pay off as intended because of the lack in basic information about actual times and costs. To retrieve the basic information, scientifically founded engineering methods and a lot of hard work is needed. Every operation for every product and every variant need to be measured, analysed, revised, and continuously updated. Ignore that and every management and support system will fall flat.
Enforcing planning control

Enforcement has been called the weakest link in the planning control system. This review looks at the scope and effectiveness of the provisions for enforcement of planning control as set out in Parts V and XII of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 and offers recommendations for improvement. It gives a brief summary of the evolution of the current system and its main features. The author also comments on some of the ideas that have been put forward for improving enforcement, such as introducing a 'Planning Enforcement Tribunal'. Among the main recommendations are that powers to obtain information and secure co-operation before enforcement action should be strengthened. The author also concludes that many of the perceived weaknesses of the system arise from lack of appropriate experience or knowledge on the part of those who have to use it.
Capacity Building of Village-owned Enterprises in Strengthening Village Economy

—This study aimed to develop the capacity and institution of Village-owned Enterprises as a driving force for the village economy. The existence of Village-owned Enterprises as a pillar of economic activity in the village has a function as a social institution as well as a commercial institution. This study used system thinking approach with the system archetype method. The location of the Village-owned Enterprises capacity building research was in Batu City. The results showed that the process of building the capacity of Village-owned Enterprises in Batu City referred to the concept of capacity building from Grindle which was carried out at three levels, namely system level, organizational level, and individual level. Based on the Village-owned Enterprises capacity building model produced, there were several factors, namely leadership factor, role factor for village government, managerial and organizational factor as well as technological factor that can leverage Village-owned Enterprises capacity building. Village-owned Enterprises capacity building has been carried out, even business development to technology utilization has been implemented. However, the management structure of the Village-owned Enterprises in Batu City has not been completely separated from the village government. Through the Village-owned Enterprises capacity building and institutional governance model, it can support efforts to embody the concept of building a regional economy starting from the village economy.