reinforcement for a specific concrete element will depend on the properties of the concrete mix and the materials of which the reinforcement is made. The properties of the materials include tensile strength‚ compressive strength‚ elasticity‚ creep and shrinkage‚ durability‚ expansion coefficient and other related properties. Other aspects‚ such as the economical implementation and resources‚ must also be taken into account when choosing reinforcement. In practise the best method of reinforcement to apply
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What defines you? Adam Woodworth 23 April 23‚ 2013 Composition 1 Instructor: David Flannery As you might guess‚ being in the military can be one of the most boring jobs you will ever have. After all‚ you are being trained to kill people and break things‚ but how often do you really get to do that? You train in the sun‚ rain‚ and sleet and pose the possibility you’ll wind up pushing paperwork and dealing with politics down range. You’ll also waste more ammo shooting at paper targets than you
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What Are You Proud Of? By: Mulki Abshir Certain things happen in your life that you never forget; sometimes they’re happy moments‚ other times sad moments and sometimes they’re even powerful moments like when it’s your turn to be bullied. I’ve always thought that when your friends or you get bullied‚ by ignoring the bully would make them leave you alone but I realized it just makes things worse. It was 3rd grade in Elementary School‚ a year that I realized something important. So far
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What Motivates You! There was a time where employees were known as just another input into the production of goods and services. What possibly changed the way of thinking about employees was research‚ referred to as the Hawthorne Studies‚ conducted by Elton Mayo. This study found employees are not motivated solely by money and employee behavior is linked to their attitudes (Dickson‚ 1973). Why is motivation so important in the work force and what should be done? Motivated employees
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What Motivates You? Everyday we pursue things. We move from one place to another; one goal from another. This is to satisfy our needs‚ wants‚ things that could pleasure and please us. So‚ what drives us? What motivates us to do such things? The answer is simple: the need to be satisfied and superior. As what was stated in the hierarchy of needs‚ one must satisfy the lower level needs before climbing one step higher in the hierarchy. This is rational because as one is contented with his
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Desiree Rielly Professor Guy Pollio 5 December 2012 English 101 What Shapes You? Often times‚ we rely on the world to we live in to shape us. From mass media‚ to magazines to commercials‚ we always find ourselves seeking the next best thing instead of what we already have. The way society shapes us develops each and every one of us because we are persuaded by such advertisements. Robert Scholes of “On Reading A Video Text”‚ and Shirley Jackson of “The Lottery”‚ show appropriate
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unregulated‚ and this gave a competitive advantage to some states at the expense of others. Ultimately‚ there was a need to change this entire setting‚ to embrace one whereby a central government was in charge of all the activities taking place and it would influence the laws and regulations across
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If you were given all the money you would ever need‚ and were free to do absolutely anything with your life‚ what would you choose to do and why? If I was fortunate enough to have me financial needs guaranteed‚ I would concentrate on my short term goal of getting an education on in engineering and thus prepared‚ move on to my long term goal of becoming an entrepreneur in a twin field of software design and robotic. The great cities of North America are rusting out and we need new industry to create
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embargo. But Venter‚ by speaking to a reporter at a biotechnology conference in France on Feb. 9‚ had effectively broken the embargo. Not for the first time in the increasingly bitter rivalry over the genome project‚ Venter’s version of the story would hit the headlines before his rivals’. "We simply do not have enough genes for this idea of biological determinism to be right‚" Venter told the Observer. "The wonderful diversity of the human species is not hard-wired in our genetic code. Our environments
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Would You Sentence A Murderer To The Death Penalty? I would sentence a murderer to the death penalty because someone who has taken a life (a murderer) should not be allowed to carry on with theirs. My reasons for this opinion are that it will deter other people who are contemplating killing someone from doing so. Also each criminal should get what their crime deserves and in the case of a murder what their crime deserves is death. It can also give closure for the victims’ families. Most importantly
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