A concrete element when kept under sustained load presents progressive strain over time, associated to the creep.In reinforced concrete columns, such deformations cause the stress increase in the steel bars of the reinforcement and may induce the read more material to undergo the yielding phenomenon.The pioneering formulations about the creep effec
Several outbreaks of COVID-19 caused by imported cases have occurred in China following the successful control of the outbreak in early 2020.In order to avoid recurrences of such local outbreaks, it is important to devise an efficient control and click here prevention strategy.In this paper, we developed a stochastic discrete model of the COVID-19
Using read more a large social media dataset and open-vocabulary methods from computational linguistics, we explored differences in language use across gender, affiliation, and assertiveness.In Study 1, we analyzed topics (groups of semantically similar words) across 10 million messages from over 52,000 Facebook users.Most language differed little
Abstract Background The Taiwan government adopted National Health Insurance (NHI) in 1995, providing universal health care to all citizens.It was financed by mandatory premium contributions made by employers, employees, and the government.Since then, the government has faced increasing challenges to control NHI expenditures.The aim of this study wa