The near surface mounted reinforcement (NSM) technique is one of the promising techniques used nowadays to strengthen reinforced concrete RC structures. In the NSM technique, the Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) rods ...

The best time for teaching software engineering courses has been an issue of debate for a long time, in addition to the issue of how to teach software engineering courses. Some researchers are arguing that teaching in ...

Background: Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is considered one of the most prevailing disorders among childbearing age women that could considerably interfere with daily living activities life. PMS is underrecognized in Palestine. ...

The study aims to investigate the financial technology (FinTech) factors influencing Chinese banking performance. Financial expectations and global realities may be changed by FinTech’s multidimensional scope, which is ...

Bounding the range of a sum of rational functions is an important task if, e.g., the global polynomial sum of ratios problem is solved by a branch and bound algorithm. In this paper, bounding methods are discussed which ...

The high incidence of breast cancer in women has increased significantly in the recent years. The most familiar breast tumors types are mass and microcalcification. Mammograms—breast X-ray—are considered the most reliable ...

A new type of Heusler nanoparticles of the formula Fe3Ga has been prepared by facile synthesis approaches using pre-fabricated multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The tubes act as a template and a coating to protect the magnetic ...

Inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) is a family of intracellular proteins that plays an essential role in the regulation of apoptosis. Recently, we and others discovered a new member of this family, termed Livin. Many ...

An on-line assessment of the balance of the robot requires information of the state variables of the robot dynamics and measurement data about the environmental interaction forces. However, modeling errors, external forces ...