This research is concerned with behavior of composite steel-concrete arches under static load.For this purpose, eight models of composite steel-concrete arches are fabricated as test specimens.According to their supporting systems, the eight fabricated specimens are equally divided into Hinge-Roller and Hinge-Hinge supported arches in which varied

Healthcare services (HCS) based on cloud computing and the Denim Internet of Things are a great opportunity for the development of medical information technology.Task scheduling in cloud computing is one of the most critical problems facing health care services, as it affects the time required to fulfill user requests and the cost and quality of se

We use the works of Diogenes and Zeno to argue that the cosmopolitan world view remains torn between negation and conformation; between anti-conventional resistance against and super-conventional organization of power.In their separate codes and relations to convention, Diogenes and Zeno expose complementary and conflictual sides of cosmopolitanism

The notion of subtyping has gained an important role both in theoretical and applicative domains: in lambda and concurrent calculi as well as in programming languages.The soundness and the completeness, together referred to as the preciseness of subtyping, can be considered from two different points of view: operational and denotational.The former

Orientation: Although there has been an improvement in workforce diversity in South Africa, gender and ethnicity issues such as discrimination, prejudice and sexual harassment prevail within Feature organisations.This is because organisational leaders view diversity as a matter of legal compliance instead of as a value addition to organisational gr