FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES STRENGTHENED WITH FRP LAMINATES Final Report SPR 316 Oregon Department of Transportation FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES STRENGTHENED WITH FRP LAMINATES Final Report SPR 316 by Damian Kachlakev‚ PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering Department‚ California Polytechnic State University‚ San Luis Obispo‚ CA 93407 and Thomas Miller‚ PhD‚ PE; Solomon Yim‚ PhD‚ PE; Kasidit Chansawat; Tanarat
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CIO Leadership Profiles: Implications of Matching CIO Authority and Leadership Capability on IT Impact Q E CIO LeadershIp prOfILes: ImpLICatIOns Of MIS Uarterly matChIng CIO authOrIty and LeadershIp xecutive CapabILIty On It ImpaCt1 Executive Summary Ultimately‚ organizations invest in information technology (IT) initiatives to improve their level of performance. However‚ there have been mixed results from the payoff of IT investments. This article presents evidence that the variation in
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Final Project TOBIAS A. TERRELL ETH /125 27 JUNE 2013 SHANDA JONES-BUREL Final Project This class has been challenging in many ways and has encouraged me to look at ethics and cultural diversity in many different ways. Institutional discrimination‚ racial discrimination‚ age discrimination‚ and gender discrimination is some of the information about diversity in the United States that has helped me better understand
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Trident University International Daniel Carnley Module 1 Case Assignment ETH 501: Business Ethics Dr. Susan Gunn 24 January 2015 Introduction Adelphia Communications‚ one of the largest cable companies is the nation at its height‚ is now out of business as of 2006 due to several unethical decisions by the Rigas family. Any organization‚ if operated under unethical decision making to this extent‚ would be destined for failure and Adelphia Communications is no exception. The two main unethical actions
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Personel Profile Plan HSM/220 October 28‚ 2012 Angela Flowers Personnel Profile Plan An organization may take four steps to changing its personality profile when they feel it needs restructuring to become more effective; organizational structure‚ job design‚ using the human resources system to make personnel changes‚ and using internal options with integrity. The first step to changing an organizations personality profile is by looking at the needs of the personnel and changing
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Corey Lott ETH 501 Case 2 Business Ethics Utilitarianism is a type of theory that was developed to come up with a proper course of action that maximizes the joy of the stakeholders involved. While consequentialism is defined as the view that value of an action derives solely from the value of its consequences. Today‚ consequentialism is the form that usually takes form. Utilitarianism tries to evaluate the moral worth of an action after one has considered the actual consequences‚
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Early Years Samuel Moore Walton was born on March 29‚ 1918 to Thomas Gibson and Nancy Lee Walton near Kingfisher‚ Oklahoma. In Oklahoma‚ he lived and worked on his family’s farm. He grew up during the depression and knew the meaning of hard work and dedication. He started selling magazine subscriptions by the age of only eight years old to help with money because it was lacking on the farm making it hard to feed their family. The Walton’s decided that the farm was not profitable enough to raise
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“The Meeting” The room is silent other than the steady hum of the air conditioner. Businessmen and location supervisors all sit around a large rectangular table‚ waiting for the man in charge. There is a projector screen at the head of the table with an opening slide displayed. It reads “Monthly Safety meeting” in plain black text on a white background. A few of the men lean back in their chairs and relax. Two start a casual conversation. Even in the silence of the room I cannot understand
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English Composition 1 My Grandmother My Grandmother goes by the name of babunya‚ and baba for short‚ this means grandma in Ukrainian. She lived in Ukraine for most of her life‚ and she is almost 90 years old now. She’s been through a lot in her years‚ thus her appearance has changed. For every wrinkle she has there’s a story to match. She has had every color hair: blonde‚ red‚ brown‚ and black. Now her hair is a short gray color. She keeps it short because it stays out of the way‚ even though
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*MACAU GDP (PPP) – $47.19 billion (2011 est.)rank 98 GDP (OER) – $44.3 billion (2012 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate – 10% (2012 est.)rank 9 GDP Per Capita – $82‚400 (2011 est.) rank 4 Labor Force – 356‚700 (2012 est.)rank 159 Unemployment Rate – 1.9% (2012 est.)rank 11 Inflation Rate – 6.2% (2012 est.)rank 166 *KUWAIT GDP (PPP) – $153.4 billion (2012 est.)rank 62 GDP (OER) – $173.4 billion (2012 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate – 5.1% (2012 est.)rank 60 GDP Per Capita – $40‚500 (2012 est.)rank 27 Labor Force
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