1 INTRODUCTION Pile foundation is widely used whether if the bearing capacity of soil layer under the building could not support the building and the force itself (Sardjono HS, 1988), or if the bearing capacity of the soil could support the structure of the building and the force on the depth from the soil surface > 8 m (Bowles, 1991). However, pile driving inevitably causes varying degrees of ground vibrations, which both may damage the surrounding structures and environment comfortable. Regarding to that reason, this study analyze the ground vibration during pile driving using finite e...

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The latent period provides a driving force behind shortening of sarcomeres and its mechanical manipulation contributes to the force of a contraction. ... Table 2 provides resting force, twitch force, and net force values for each 1mm increase in stretch length. The net force value in Table 2 was calculated by subtracting the resting value from the twitch force value. ... Table 3 shows the maximum height of both contractions as 1st and 2nd responses of force. ... Figure 3 exemplifies that the force of the 2nd response remained greater than the force of the 1st response as the interval was decre...

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The use of excessive force by police officers added more fuel to the fire. ... The officers in that case were said to have used reasonable force. ... Besides Koreans many non-African American people were attacked during the riots while driving through South Central. ... Unable to retaliate against police officers, African Americans living in South Central attacked anyone driving through their area. ... Parker is accredited for militarizing the police force. ...

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What exactly is it that drives the driver who knows the rules of driving and knows the consequences if the rules are broken, i.e.; a moving violation with a heavy fine attached or a potentially fatal car crash, to continue to break the rules despite their knowledge? What is the driving force causes male drivers to run through a stop sign and what would cause a female driver to be more compliant to the rules of the road? ... The subjects consisted of 220 accidental samples of vehicles that emerged on the stop sign, meaning that each car was chosen without any reason other than the ...

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This type of person makes driving a fun, enjoyable adventure. It is a pleasure driving in the company of someone who shares the same opinions about driving. ... I constantly have to reassure them that I know my vehicle and its dimensions, and will not hit anything without an outside force acting on my vehicle. ... This is what I like to call tag-team driving. ... On the topic of highway driving. ...

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Introduction Today the key elements of the "modern welfare state" are understood as being: -Social Security (e. g. income support, child benefit...) -Health Care (e. g. NHS, free medical treatment...) -Housing (e. g. private rented and local authority housing, problem estates, owner occup...

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When I was a junior in high school, a friend of mine, Sarah, a sophomore, was driving to school one day. ... Most of these resulted in careless driving from either driver, or a lack of knowledge of rules. ... While driving down a highway he drove over some gravel lying in the road. ... Out of total crashes in the year 2000, in accordance with 2000 Wisconsin Traffic Crash Facts, 30% of the accidents where due to an exterior force, 27% where due to inattentive driving, 20% do to speed and 13% due to alcohol. ... How can we when we are driving a car avoid accidents with two wheel vehicles? ...

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Though the types of reputation may vary between men and women, it is nevertheless a powerful force that determines the fate of every single character in Othello. ... Again, reputation is the driving force that leads Cassio to make these mistakes. ... It is a driving force that decides the fate of men, and can be ever so easily changed with just a few simple lies. ...

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With husbands, father, and brothers enlisting the need for women to enter the work force quickly grew. By 1942 the labor forces were drained and women were actively recruited into the work force for the first time. ... Women were employed in areas such as building ships, driving fire engines, nurses, ambulance drivers, factory works particularly those that supported the war effort such as the making of military clothing Women were employed in areas such as building ships, driving fire engines, nurses, ambulance drivers, factory works particularly those that supported the war effort such as t...

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Army Air Force had recovered the remains of a crashed UFO and that they were sent to higher headquarters. ... The Air Force said that this was what was recovered at Roswell. ... Air Force started an operation called Project Blue Book that dealt with all the individual UFO reports over the next 20 years. ... In Bangor on February 27, 1998 a man reported that he had seen a flashing white light move rapidly across the sky while driving along a highway. Another sighting in Bangor on March 23, 1965 involved a man who claimed to have met a huge domed disc on the road while driving. ...

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The fellowship of the craft is the driving force of seamen and their voyages, it is so important to have unwavering trust, unhindered response to command, and complete teamwork to properly run a ship, but perhaps it also just as important to that productivity; living in such isolation, to have a secure emotional backing. ... (Dana, pg. 83) The fellowship is much more obviously rendered in fiction, as an exploited force for driving fantastic and or horrifying storylines. ...

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Everyone seemed to believe that the police used excessive force in arresting King. ... In the morning of March 3, 1991 Rodney Glen King was spotted driving at very high speeds. ... Everyone felt that excessive force was used against King. ... The scale will assist officers in applying the law and departmental policy in use of force situations, documenting the use of force, and presenting testimony in a court proceeding. ... The officer simply escalates to deadly force accordingly. ...

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Fate seemed to control their lives and force them together, becoming a large part of their love, and the ending of their parent's hatred. ... Little does Romeo realize that this force that is driving his sail is fate. ... Believing in fate and trusting dreams such as these is believing in the idea that a stronger power and force controls us, and in the case of such a strong love as the love between Romeo and Juliet, that there is one person out there destined for everyone. ...

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CUSTOM AND LAW According to the Living Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary: Custom: A long-established practice which has acquired the force of law. ... The distinction with regard to norms is those that are upheld through custom and those that carry the force of law. ... Because of the values, belief and norms, inherent in its Board of Directors, Executives and employees (the driving force behind the airline), the company continues to strive to be "the airline of choice-. ...

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The driving force of all life is re-birth and water provides the potential for renewal. The Waste Land portrays a dead land that lacks the fertility and sexual force needed to sustain and progress life. ... Water is a life giving force and the realisation of this comes at the end of The Waste Land. ...

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Since then he has explored, and presented through his creative works, the culturally popular themes of money, power, military force, and technology. ... Burden believed that intense actions such as this would force the audience to consider the nature of violence. ... For this piece he nailed himself to the back of a Volkswagen Beetle in the crucifix position while other local artists took turns driving him around town. ... This work produces an intense, uneasy feeling from the idea that such a powerful force could easily break free and send 6,000 pounds of iron flying through the gallery....

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The video revealed that the problem of excessive force in American policing is very real. ... Two officers spotted King driving at high speeds. ... "(Dunn) Informed norms support excessive use of force and demand officers to be loyal and maintain secrecy when fellow officers employ it. ... "The nation will likely witness corresponding encounters involving racial, ethnic, profiling, abuse of authority, and the unnecessary use of force by the police, particularly among people of color. ... (Police Brutality: Excessive Force and Racial Profiling)....

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It is doubtful if Macbeth, who starts off as a brave and valiant warrior, described like "Valour's minion" would have ended up the "Dead Butcher" with his " fiendish Queen", without the driving force of his wife behind him. ... They are becoming separated from each other as their own private hells force them apart. ... However, the relationship gathers dangerous momentum as their two strong personalities feed off eachother, creating a dynamic force with which they can achieve their aims. Ultimately, it becomes a destructive force which drives them apart and consumes their in...

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Emotional abuse can consist of name calling, insulting, humiliation, criticizing, blaming, accusing, intense jealousy, or forcing you to do something against your will. Sexual abuse consists of unwanted touching, withholding or demanding sex, forcing sex, martial rape, or insisting on anything sexual that frightens or hurts you. ... Physical abuse consists of pushing, pinching, slapping, chocking, pinning you down, breaking down a door to get to you, breaking bones, using any type of weapon against you, driving at an unsafe speed to intimidate you, biting, pulling your hair, or throwing thing...

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(Pastor Jerry Falwell, Grace College Chapel Convocation, April, 2002) "You can't expect fifteen year olds to be good drivers because they are too young to exercise good judgment in the dangers of driving." ... Fallacy of Force: The use of force, fear, or even threat is used to make an argument. 3. ...

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North Korea wasn't happy with the divide, and set out to force unification with the south, under communism. ... To aid South Korean armies, they appointed Task Force Smith- 540 men to stop North Korean advance. ... Mao succeeded in driving all US troops below the 38th parallel before Christmas. ...

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The Country Wife is the third Restoration comedy by William Wycherley written in 1675. The exact date of the first performance of the play is unknown. January 12, 1675 is first appearance before royalty, indicated by The Lord Chamberlains records. Though some scenes of the play are indebted to Molie...

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Her divided temperament is shown in the Wife by her driving impulse for "maisterie" and her inability to be content with her fine clothes and garments. ... As was said early about her divided star sign her driving force could not be circumnavigated and she had to have "maisterie". ...

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The West Wind acts as a driving force for change and rejuvenation in the human and natural world. ... The stanzas are made up of interlinking three-line units with the rhyme scheme ababcbcdc, continuing this to the end of the stanza: O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, (a) Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead (b) Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, (a) Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, (b) Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, (c) Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed (b) The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, (c)...

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These reality based shows are now the driving force of T.V. entertainment. ... What made this show popular was the up close footage of drug busts, drunken driving, weaponry use and the good old high speed chases along the bad guy good guy heists. ...

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