The article analyses the impact of modeling the cross-section of two-nave and two-storey reinforced concrete frame with dimensions: 18.0 m × 32.0 m as a bars on the results of bending moments, the ...value of elastic deflection and dimensioning of reinforcement due to bending. Six options were considered: a beam as a rectangular section and five T-beam variants with different definition of effective flange width. The differences in obtained results were commented. Conclusions useful for the designing of reinforced concrete structures were presented. The procedure for determining the effective flange width in the context of PN-EN 1992-1-1:2008 and PN-B 03264:2002 standards with a commentary on the use of effective flange width in calculations and construction of reinforcement in reinforced concrete structures were described. Brief description of determining the reinforcement due to bending according to simplified method given in PN-EN 1992-1-1:2008 was presented. In addition, the standard formula for determining the minimum cross sectional area of reinforcement (9.1N) in PN-EN 1992-1-1:2008 with a proposal for its strict determination for the T-beam with a flange in the tensile zone was analyzed.
This study explores the political and social significance of Argentina national team at the 2002 World Cup in Asia against the global backdrop of Argentina's economic crisis in 2001-2002. The efforts ...of the national team players in seeking to emphasize their solidarity with the Argentine people through mass media before and after their ouster from the tournament took on global significance. The public statements of members of the Argentine national team are considered as local and global projections. The national team's lofty expectations and early exit from the tournament offers an important avenue of historical reinterpretation for understanding the Argentine crisis played out in a global context.
In the third volume of this popular series, leading experts provide fascinating and unexpected insights into critical issues of culture, economy, politics, and society in today's China. This world, ...outside the reach of state control and either misunderstood or unreported in Western media, gains clarity and dimension from the fresh insights of a prominent group of activists, investigative journalists, lawyers, scholars, and travelers, who share a common interest in lessening the profound information gap between China and the rest of the world. In sixteen new essays, they address such key topics as civil society, consumerism, environmental adversity, ethnic tension, the Internet, legal reform, new media and social networking, nationalist tourism, sex and popular culture, as well the costs of urban gigantism to portray the complexity of life in contemporary China—and how, increasingly, it speaks to the everyday experience of Americans.
The 2002 midterm elections were noteworthy U.S. congressional campaigns for many reasons. They marked the last national contests before implementation of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) and ...thus were expected by many to be the "last hurrah" for soft money. These midterm campaigns provided a window on the activity of parties, interest groups, and political consultants on the eve of BCRA, as they prepared to enter a new era of American elections. The results of Campaign 2002 were remarkable. As the party in power, the Republicans defied history by gaining seats in both houses of Congress, giving them a majority in the Senate. To some degree this resulted from the GOP's new emphasis on "ground war" voter mobilization. Another key was the unusually aggressive support of the sitting president, who leveraged his popularity to advance his party's candidates for Congress. The Last Hurrah? analyzes the role of soft money and issue advocacy in the 2002 battle for Congress. Having been granted access to a number of campaign operations across a broad array of groups, David Magleby, Quin Monson, and their colleagues monitored and documented a number of competitive races, including the key South Dakota and Missouri Senate contests. Each case study breaks down the campaign communication in a particular race, including devices such as advertising, get-out-the-vote drives, "soft money" expenditures, and the increasingly influential role of the national parties on local races. They also discuss the overall trends of the midterm election of 2002, paying particular attention to the impact of President Bush and his political operation in candidate recruitment, fundraising, and campaign visits. Magleby and Monson consider an important question typically overlooked. How do voters caught in the middle of a hotly contested race deal with -and react to -a barrage of television and radio ads, direct mail, unsolicited phone calls, and other campaign communications? They conclude with a look to the future, using the trends in 2002 to understand just how candidates, political parties, and interest groups might respond to the new campaign environment of BCRA.
Various measures of satisfaction with life or happiness in China appear not to have risen in recent years, despite China's remarkable growth of income per capita. The paper brings together and ...integrates the results of four papers by the authors to provide a methodologically and substantively innovative explanation for this paradox. The four papers are based on a cross-section national household survey relating to 2002 and containing questions on subjective well-being. Their findings help to explain the time-series evidence: they highlight the importance of relative income, rising urban insecurity, rapid urbanization, and changing reference groups in preventing happiness from rising with income.
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Contagious capitalism Gallagher, Mary Elizabeth
2008., 20110627, 2011, 2005, 2005-01-01, 20050101
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One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "reform and openness" will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that assumption and ...the general relationship between economic liberalization and democratization. Moreover, it analyzes the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) liberalization on Chinese labor politics.
A high performance liquid chromatographic method with fluorimetric detection for the determination of aflatoxin M
1 (AFM
1) in milk has been optimized and validated according to Commission Decision ...2002/657/EC by using the conventional validation approach. The procedure for determining selectivity, recovery, precision, decision limit (CC
α
), detection capability (CC
β
) and ruggedness of the method has been reported. The results of the validation process demonstrate the agreement of the method with the provisions of Commission Regulation 401/2006/EC. The mean recovery calculated at three levels of fortification (0.5, 1.0, and 1.5-fold the MRL) was 91% and the maximum relative standard deviation value for the within-laboratory reproducibility was 15%. Limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantitation (LOQ) values were 0.006
μg
kg
−1 and 0.015
μg
kg
−1 while the CC
α
and CC
β
values were 0.058
μg
kg
−1 and 0.065
μg
kg
−1, respectively. The relative expanded measurement uncertainty of the method was 7%. The method was not affected by slight variations of some critical factors (ruggedness minor changes) as pre-treatment and clean-up of milk samples, thermal treatment and different storage conditions, as well as by major changes valued in terms of milk produced by different species (buffalo, goat and sheep). The method allowed accurate confirmation analyses of milk samples, resulted positive by the screening method. In fact, the
Z-score values attained in a proficiency test round were well below the reference value of 1, proving the excellent laboratory performances.
Rekindling the Strong State in Russia and China offers a thorough analysis of the profound regeneration of the State and its external projection in Russia and China. The book is an essential guide to ...understand the deep changes of these countries and their global aspirations.
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