COMPARISONS OF SEISMIC ROCK SLOPE STABILITY ASSESSMENTS BETWEEN THE HOEK-BROWN FAILURE CRITERION AND MOHR-COULOMB FAILURE CRITERION By Qian Zhiguang A thesis is submitted for the degree of Bachelor of Civil engineering at The Deakin University School of Civil Engineering October 2012 Comparisons of the Hoek-Brown and Mohr-Coulomb ABSTRACT This paper describes uses limit equilibrium analyses to produce stability for rock slopes to show the difference between Mohr-Coulomb and
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Question B For Question B‚ there was a need to simulate the possibility of supplier-1 not meeting the demand of the chocolate manufacturing company as it had an unexpected disease run across its fields. In order to simulate this hypothetical situation‚ we assume the company is diversified and has a backup supplier they could order from. The order amount supplier-1 could fulfill was set at 17 no matter what demand was because of the tree disease and the simulation was run for 5000 holiday seasons
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Over Population Name: Instructor: Course: DATE: Healthcare 5‚ 10‚ and 15 years from now Given the rapid changes in the world today‚ global healthcare and the United States in particular is expected to change over the next two decades. Since the year 1994‚ a period that witnessed the failure of healthcare reforms‚ there has been an escalation in cost coupled with poor quality. Moreover‚ more Americans have become uninsured. With the healthcare sector in the US facing different hurdles and
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Chapter 1 Sociology the study of human society Groups of sociology sports religion music medicine sociologists Social Structure – patterns of social behavior Martial age Food Reality shows Cultural Myths Social Institutions are groups of Social positions Social relations Social roles Social identity Social imagination wants you to look at structural ties that keep you aligned with a group looks at the historical past Sociologists generally look common categories Age Gender
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leadership performance with 50 % net profit in quarter 2‚ ’08-09 on the day before. This share price increase continued in the year 2009 also‚ and from there on‚ in 2010 they have been increasing at steady rate. (Adapted from moneycontrol.com‚ 2011) However with the passage of years‚ the company has seen ups and downs and recently the company is in news because of the joint venture termination between hero group and Honda Motors Company. This news was announced on 16 December 2010 and on the same
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comments in Spanish about two co-workers. The president of Spun Steak concluded that an English-only rule would promote racial harmony in the workplace and would enhance worker safety because some employees claimed that it distracted them‚ it would also add to product quality because the U.S.D.A. spoke only English and could not understand if product-related concerns were raised in Spanish. This rule complied that only English was to be spoken in connection with work. During breaks the employees were
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society many people believe that what you perceive on TV is what the actual court proceedings are in a downtown district court. However this is not the case. Many individuals in society believe that these court proceedings are paid actors or that the judges do not have that type of power. According to McNeely (1995) Research
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2 Years Two years from now I see myself in a State University. I am a Full time student at Cerritos College. I am here because I want to be successful in life. I want to prove my children that even though being a full time student‚ mother‚ and obtaining a full time job is hard but I can still accomplish my dream goals. There isn’t anything in this world that can stop me from going to school and graduating from a state university. I am majoring in Business Administration. I had previously graduated
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2 Operations Strategy Defining how firms compete Chapter Objectives • Introduce the concept of operations strategy and its various components‚ and show how it relates to the overall business strategy of the firm. • Illustrate how operations strategy pertains to adding value for the customer. • Identify the different ways in which operations strategy can provide an organization with a competitive advantage. • Introduce the concept of trade-offs between different strategies
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Defense in Depth provides the university several layers of protection. Starting at the endpoints‚ host intrusion protection (HIPS)‚ should be installed on each Device. Properly installed‚ HIPS will not permit the installation of unauthorized programs. This was the root cause of the (D)DoS recently experienced. At the routers access control lists (ACLs) must be put in place to allow only traffic with a legitimate protocol and destination. Between the routers and the endpoint a firewall solution must
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