...University of Alabama – Birmingham Department of Civil Engineering Lab Summary 1 Dennis D Gray Shayla Olson Chelsea Caldwell Collin Hipps Jamieson Matthews David Pritchett Dustin Schultes Michael Ragan Mark Casson 02/15/13 CE 222 Materials Laboratory Craig A. Copham Introduction The purpose of this lab was to design, mix, and test a specimen of concrete based on a specified strength, and the ingredients used in the testing were cement, air, water, sand, and stone. There was a batch of concrete design to reach the maximum of 5000 psi. The concrete mix designed was done from ASTM ACI 211 Chapter 6. To determine the slump and air content ASTM C143 and C231 were used. To calculate the unit weight and making curing concrete test specimens in the laboratory ASTM C138 and C192 were used for these different test. Once the test specimens were completely equipped they were covered for a period of time and additional testing was done. Results Concrete Mix Design |Material |SG |Design Wt.(pcy) |Vol. (ft^3) |MC % |Abs. % | |Cement |3.15 |763 |763 |3.88 |782 | |Water |1 |305 |292.04 |4.68 |299 | |Stone |2.6 ...
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...1. Introduction The purpose of this lab is to introduce the students to the process, procedures and to determine important physical properties of mixing fresh concrete. With an understanding of concrete properties and the means of which to calculate these properties the students can demonstrate their knowledge in a laboratory environment. The students are expected to achieve this task by designing and mixing a batch of concrete based on specific requirements provided in the ASTM C231. The procedure requirements include strength, slump, air entrainment, volume, aggregate type and size. Students are split into groups and each group is assigned specific parameters to base their designs on. These designs and parameters are used to complete the concrete mixing procedures. The specific parameters for Thursdays Lab Group # 1 were a compressive strength of 8000 psi (55 MPA), limestone aggregate with a maximum size of ¾”. The mixture required moderate air entraining, a supplementary cementitious material called fly ash, and a target slump of 3”- 4”. This design should produce a mixture that is relatively high in strength, durability and workability. The assumption was made that the aggregate properties calculated we accurately described. A sample of this mixture design was created in the lab using the equipment provided. The mixture was then subjected to testing using the slump cone test. The ASTM C231 requires the sample to be tested using an air pot to determine the air content....
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...QUALITY PLAN 1 Introduction 1. Scope The contents of this document are applicable for construction, inspection, testing and operation of works in an environmentally safe manner as carried out in the construction to Bitumen Standards of Meru bypass. 2 Purpose The project Quality Plan has been prepared and formulated as a summary of the quality related activities required, meeting the terms of the contract. This manual sets out the management practices and describes the quality management for this project and its relationship with contractor’s road quality system. 3 Terms and definition In the context of this document, the following abbreviations or phrases shall have the meanings noted against. a) Quality – Totality of Features and Characteristics of a product or service that relies on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs. b) Quality Assurance – All those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a product or service will satisfy the given requirement for quality. c) Quality Control – Operational techniques of Controlling quality activities (e.g. Inspection and Testing) used to verify technical and quality requirement for services and or products. d) Quality Plan – A document setting out specific practices, resources and sequence of activities relevant to a particular material, procedure, service in a contract or project. e) Corrective Action – An activity, the intention of...
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...work will be accepted. Projects are due at the beginning of class on the day of your class meeting during the week beginning October 6, 2014. Due to the nature of the assignment, NO LATE PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED!!! Feel free to turn the project in early. 1. To impeach Walt Dipsey’s primary witness, the Evil Stepmother, Snow White plans to introduce testimony of seven diminutive witnesses in the neighborhood who will testify that the Evil Stepmother has a reputation for untruthfulness. On what basis can Dipsey exclude some of the witnesses? 2. Charles Foster Kane is arrested for possession of cocaine, which the prosecution asserts was contained in a “snowy” paperweight on Kane’s desk. The prosecutor offers as evidence a lab report stating, “The “snow” in the subject paperweight is 95% pure cocaine hydrochloride.” Is the report hearsay? Why or why not? 3. Peter Pan gives John, Wendy and Michael fairy dust to fly. He is arrested on narcotics charges. Wendy is called as a witness at trial. She can’t remember exactly what happened, but, when she is shown some notes she made at the time of the incident, she is able to remember the events perfectly without further reference to the notes. Are the notes admissible under the “recorded recollection” exception to the hearsay rule? 4. The French Maid rushes into the Master’s study, only to find him on the carpet, bleeding profusely, with a sharpened umbrella through his chest. She rushes to him, props...
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...about the product have led to an environment of confusion for the consumer, to such an extent that we have decided to withdraw the product off the shelves, despite the product being safe,” Nestle said in a press release posted on its website late on Thursday night. The decision came on the day five states – Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand — cracked the whip against the popular ‘two-minute’ noodles that is widely consumed across the country and contributes over a quarter to Nestle India’s revenues. At least 10 other states have sent samples of Maggi noodles for tests amid a widespread panic “We promise that the trusted MAGGI Noodles will be back in the market as soon as the current situation is clarified,” Nestle said in the release. “MAGGI Noodles are completely safe and have been trusted in India for over 30 years,” Nestle reiterated, reacting to the lab tests that showed the noodles contained dangerously high levels of lead and chemical flavour enhancer Monosodium Glutamate (MSG). Health experts say excessive intake of lead can cause damage to the kidneys, bones and nervous system and is particularly harmful to children and can cause learning disorders. MSG, on the other hand, can damage the nervous system with long-term use. A number of...
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...M U M B AI SILICON VALLEY BANGA LORE SINGA P ORE MUMBA I BK C NE W DE L HI MUNICH Mergers & Acquisitions in India May 2015 © Copyright 2015 Nishith Desai Associates www.nishithdesai.com Mergers & Acquisitions in India About NDA Nishith Desai Associates (NDA) is a research based international law firm with offices in Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley, Singapore, New Delhi, Munich. We specialize in strategic legal, regulatory and tax advice coupled with industry expertise in an integrated manner. We focus on niche areas in which we provide significant value and are invariably involved in select highly complex, innovative transactions. Our key clients include marquee repeat Fortune 500 clientele. Core practice areas include International Tax, International Tax Litigation, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Fund Formation, Fund Investments, Capital Markets, Employment and HR, Intellectual Property, Corporate & Securities Law, Competition Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, JVs & Restructuring, General Commercial Law and Succession and Estate Planning. Our specialized industry niches include financial services, IT and telecom, education, pharma and life sciences, media and entertainment, real estate and infrastructure. Nishith Desai Associates has been ranked as the Most Innovative Indian Law Firm (2014) and the Second Most Innovative Asia - Pacific Law Firm (2014) at the Innovative Lawyers Asia-Pacific Awards by the Financial Times - RSG Consulting...
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...10 July 2014 National SC restrains States on remission for life convicts The Supreme Court restrained all State governments from releasing life convicts exercising their remission powers. A five-judge Constitution Bench comprising Chief Justice R.M. Lodha and Justices J.S. Khehar, J. Chelameswar, A.K. Sikri and Rohinton Nariman passed the restraint order till July 22, when the matter relating to the release of life convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case would be taken up for hearing. Bollywood to open up for Canadian filmmakers The Bollywood market could soon open up on a large scale to Canadian filmmakers, with the coming into force of the Canada-India Audiovisual Coproduction Treaty, which will enable film producers of both the countries to utilise a common platform for collaboration on various facets of film-making. The agreement was signed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the Canadian High Commissioner earlier this year. It is expected to benefit producers from both the countries and allow them to combine their creative, technical and financial resources for co-production. CBI quizzes Andhra governor in Agusta chopper deal probe The CBI recorded the statement of former Intelligence Bureau director and Andhra Pradesh governor E S L Narasimhan as a witness in its probe into the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal. Senior official to handle PMO's media affairs The Modi government and BJP are planning a major media outreach with a...
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...32 Innovations That Will Change Your Tomorrow The electric light was a failure. gets you there. It’s bad financial decisions and blueprints for machines that weren’t built until decades later. It’s the important leaps forward that synthesize lots of ideas, and it’s the belly-up failures that teach us what not to do. When we ignore how innovation actually works, we make it hard to see what’s happening right in front of us today. If you don’t know that the incandescent light was a failure before it was a success, it’s easy to write off some modern energy innovations — like solar panels — because they haven’t hit the big time fast enough. Worse, the fairy-tale view of history implies that innovation has an end. It doesn’t. What we want and what we need keeps changing. The incandescent light was a 19th-century failure and a 20th- century success. Now it’s a failure again, edged out by new technologies, like LEDs, that were, themselves, failures for many years. That’s what this issue is about: all the little failures, trivialities and not-quite-solved mysteries that make the successes possible. This is what innovation looks like. It’s messy, and it’s awesome. Maggie KoerthBaker Invented by the British chemist Humphry Davy in the early 1800s, it spent nearly 80 years being passed from one initially hopeful researcher to another, like some not-quite-housebroken puppy. In 1879, Thomas Edison finally figured out how to make an incandescent light bulb that people would buy. But...
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...University of South Florida Scholar Commons Graduate School Theses and Dissertations Graduate School 6-1-2010 Effects of reading comprehension and fluency abilities on the N400 event-related potential Annie Hirt Nelson University of South Florida Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd Part of the American Studies Commons Scholar Commons Citation Nelson, Annie Hirt, "Effects of reading comprehension and fluency abilities on the N400 event-related potential" (2010). Graduate School Theses and Dissertations. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1721 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate School Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact scholarcommons@usf.edu. Effects of Reading Comprehension and Fluency Abilities on the N400 Event-Related Potential by Annie Hirt Nelson A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of Childhood Education and Literacy Studies College of Education University of South Florida Major Professor: Mary Lou Morton, Ph.D. Jacqueline Hinckley, Ph.D. Jim King, Ed.D. Richard Marshall, Ph.D. Date of Approval: July 1, 2010 Keywords: syntax, semantics, ERP, N400, sentence structure, children, indexical hypothesis Copyright © 2010, Annie Hirt Nelson ...
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...Business Plan Topic: Waste to Building Materials Prepared for: Dr. A.K.M. Saiful Majid Professor Course Instructor: Entrepreneurship Course Code: W301 Prepared by: Safa Tasneem (RQ-17) BBA 18th Batch Date of Submission: January 21, 2013 Institute of Business Administration University of Dhaka [pic] 201, 202 TEJGAON INDUSTRIAL AREA DHAKA 1212, BANGLADESH +8801676907083 tasneem_safa@yahoo.com Partners: The partnership has been formed amongst a group of three close friends and highly aspiring entrepreneurs graduating from the BBA 18th batch of Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka. |Name |Address | |Safa Tasneem |House # C-39, Road # 6, Niketan, Gulshan-1, Dhaka-1212 | |Adel Mostaque Ahmed |House # 37, Road # 1, Block– A, Banasree, East Rampura, Dhaka – 1219 | |Ahnaf Zabee |House # 3/6, Block- A, Lalmatia, Mohammadpur, Dhaka | | | | | | ...
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...Table of contents 1. Introduction 2. Adoption cycle 3. Desktop environments 4. Year of desktop linux 5. Hardware support 6. Connectivity with windows 7. Linux distribution 8. Application 9. Performance 10. Market adoption 11. Education 12. Future of desktop linux 13. Conclusion Introduction “Bill Gates was the first to realize the power of ‘good enough.’ We don’t have to offer the perfect desktop environment, just one that’s good enough for most people.” [pic] Desktop Linux, also called Linux on the desktop, refers to specialized Linux distributions with features designed for desktop personal computer users. These features include a graphical user interface and personal use applications. Some Linux distributions have targeted the desktop role specifically, while others include all the software available for the platform. In that case, the user will be given the choice to select either a "desktop" or "server" type when the operating system is installed. THE ADOPTION CYCLE Looking back Many technologies have enjoyed widespread success when a new application was released that allowed the benefits of the new technology to fully demonstrate themselves. The Macintosh computer, for instance, started gaining momentum with the release of Adobe Pagemaker and the postscript printer, creating the desktop publishing industry. Likewise, the Internet was used only in academic and technical circles...
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...Environmental Analysis The information technology (IT) industry has always been highly driven by innovations in technology. It is dynamic and highly competitive, with frequent changes in both technologies and business models. Each industry shift is an opportunity to conceive new products, new technologies, or new ideas that can further transform the industry and businesses. The following PESTEL analysis will try to gain an understanding of Microsoft’s business potential, future market situation and the direction of its operation. The political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal factors are six components of PESTEL analysis. Table 1: PESTEL Analysis of IT industry | Political * Restrictions on foreign recruitments * Regulations to education * Regulations to the industry * Regulations at emerging markets | Economic * Fluctuations and unpredictable behaviours of foreign currency * Trade cycles * Economic growth rates (around the world) * Disposable income level of people * Demand and supply...
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...0 8 2 C 8 6 8 5 6 2 3 0 0 38 8 8 8 8 6 2 0 0 40 8 8 6 6 6 2 2 2 40 6 6 8 2 Course No EC-1101 CS-1101 MA-1102 ME-1101 PH-1101/ CH-1101 CS-1111 EE-1111 PH-1111/ CH-1111 Course Name Semester-2 Basic Electronics Introduction to Computing Mathematics-II Engineering Mechanics Physics/Chemistry Computing Laboratory Electrical Science Laboratory Physics/Chemistry Laboratory Physical Training –II NCC/NSO/NSS Semester-4 Structural Analysis-I Hydraulics Environmental Engg-I Structural Design-I Managerial Economics Engg. Geology Laboratory Hydraulics Laboratory Physical Training-IV NCC/NSO/NSS Semester-6 Structural Design-II Structural Analysis-III Foundation Engineering Transportation Engineering-II Hydrology &Flood Control Concrete Lab Structural Engineering Lab L 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 15 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 15 3 3 3 3 3 0 0 T 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 P 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 C 6 6 8 8 8 2 2 2 0 0 42 8 8 6 8 6 2 2 0 0 40 8 8 8 6 6 2 2 MA-1201 CE- 1201 CE -1202 CE -1203 CE-1204 CE-1211 Semester-3 Mathematics-III Building Materials and...
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...HP- CISCO Alliance • • Executive Summary • • Despite HP- CISCO top management intentions and senior and middle management commitment to renewed alliance stalemate has reached, due to lack of clearly defined ground rules, absence of detailed plan of action, cultural disconnect in decision making and non availability explicit financial integration plan. • • Hurdles for the formal agreement between the two organizations • Change of management team • Both teams assuming that they are middleware spanning horizontally across Bus and vertically between top management and sales forces • Alliance team asking BUS to do activities , which might be beneficial to the organization’s whole but a loss proportion to the unit • Multiple interdependencies and potential for conflicts • Incentives stopped for HP sales staff for selling Cisco products • Training needs of managers to understand both technologies • Organizational changes for persona reason of employees • Absence of dedicated sales teams • Product overlap beyond limits • Non availability of performance metrics for individual business unit initiatives • Absence of clearly defined metrics for customer requirements • Alliance team members not meting regularly for lack of interactions • Demand for high level of management skills in the absence of formal authority • • Positive points ...
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...HEWLETT-PACKARD GRIFFIN CONSULTING GROUP Jason Blauvelt Paul Ciasullo Owen Hawkins Sunday, April 15, 2012 CONTENTS Executive Summary ..................................................................................................................... 4 History ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard .............................................................................................. 5 Expansion .................................................................................................................................. 6 The Age of Computers ............................................................................................................ 7 Acquisitions, Innovation, and New Markets ....................................................................... 7 Struggles in Recent Years ........................................................................................................ 8 Financial Analysis ........................................................................................................................ 9 Overview ................................................................................................................................... 9 Chart 1: Stock Performance Over 5 Years............................................................................. 9 Chart 2: Basic Financial Information...
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