A Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis of a Damaged Building

A twenty years old reinforced concrete building suffered from fracture of one of its ground floor corner columns. The extent of damage resulting from fracture of the column is examined. Plane frame structural analysis is used in the interpretation of the signs of damage of the building. Soil compressibility is incorporated in the analysis by assuming the footings to rest on Winkler type subgrade. The theoretical analysis is assessed by comparing the results with the actual behaviour of the structure

Penerapan Teknologi Pertanian melalui Penggunaan Alsintan pada Lahan Sawah Kepada Masyarakat Tani di Nagari Minangkabau Kec. Sungayang Kab.Tanah Datar

Tujuan dan target khusus yang akan dicapai pada kegiatan KKN-PPM : 1) Menggunakan alat dan mesin pertanian yang sesuai dengan kontur tanah dan kemampuan petani didalam kegiatan budidaya tanaman padi sawah, 2) Meningkatkan kapasitas kerja, dan 3) Meningkatkan hasil dan mutu pertanian. Metode kegiatan yang akan diterapkan, dilakukan melalui pendekatan pada petani untuk menumbuhkan dan meningkatkan motivasi kelompok tani. Kegiatan yang akan dilakukan :1) Pengenalan alat dan mesin pertanian khususnya untuk budidaya padi sawah, 2) Pelatihan dan demonstrasi penggunaan alat dan mesin pertanian padi sawah. Dalam kegiatan penggunaan alat dan mesin pertanian ini didahului dengan kegiatan penyuluhan dan pelatihan dilaksanakan pada tanggal 16 Juli 2016. Penyuluhan diberikan oleh narasumber tentang alat pengolahan tanah (handtraktor), penyiang, penyemprot dan perontok. Kapasitas kerja handraktor di dapatkan sekitar 0,056 Ha/jam, sedangkan pengolahan tanah dengan cara manual menggunakan cangkul adalah 0,0017 Ha/jam. Ini berarti pekerjaan pengolahan tanah lebih efektif dengan handtraktor daripada dengan cara manual yaitu 33 kali lipat dari kerja handtraktor. Penyiangan dengan menggunakan tangan untuk padi sawah didapatkan kapasitasnya 0,0277 Ha/jam. Sedangkan dengan menggunakan alat semi mekanis osrok/landak, cara ini terbilang efektif dari cara manual diatas selain lebih cepat, ramah lingkungan dan waktu yang dibutuhkan untuk menyiangi gulma lebih cepat berkisar 28-30 jam/Ha. Sehingga di dapatkan kapasitas dengan alat mekanis ini adalah sebesar 0.8033 Ha/jam. Kapasitas perontokan yang dilakukan dengan cara banting atau memukul batang padi pada papan atau susunan bambu adalah ±50 kg/jam. kapasitas mesin perontok gabah citra dragon yang digunakan dilahan sawah yaitu 750 kg/jam. Dengan demikian diharapkan terjadinya peningkatan pengetahuan dan keterampilan anggota kelompok tani Sawah Kapuak, seperti peningkatan pengetahuan dan keterampilan dalam menggunakan alat dan mesin pertanian

The Influence of Measures Supervision on Performance of the Internal Auditors to Work Motivation as an Intervening Variable (Studies in Riau Province Representative BPKP)

This study aims to determine how actions influence the performance of the internalauditor supervision through work motivation. The population of this study is that the internal auditors work in BPKP Representative Office of Riau Province. Total respondents in this study is 74 respondents (64.3%). Methods of data collection in this study is the use of survey method and deliver directly by sending a questionnaire to 115 pieces staffing subsection BPKP Representative Riau Province. The method of data analysis used in this study is to use the technique of path analysis (path analysis) is similar to multiple regression analysis yet done gradually with the help of software SPSS version 17.0. The results of this study indicate that the act of supervision and motivation direct and significant impact on the performance of the internal auditors. The results of this study also showed that motivation does not work mediate the relationship between measures of supervision with the performance of internal auditors.Keyword : Measures Supervision, Work Motivation and Performance of the Internal Auditor

Network enabled partial reconfiguration for distributed FPGA edge acceleration

Partial reconfiguration supports virtualisation of applications on FPGAs, enabling compute to dynamically adapt to workloads in distributed infrastructure and datecenters. While the latter often makes use of the PCIe interface and supporting infrastructure to allocate and load compute kernels via a host CPU, FPGAs are becoming increasingly popular as standalone resources in edge-computing, requiring them to manage ac- celerators autonomously. This paper presents a platform that supports the managing of accelerator bitstreams over the network interface on a Xilinx Zynq device without intervention by the Arm processor. We compare against traditional vendor provided PR management for both library accelerators and custom acceler- ators and show that we achieve a 29% decrease in reconfiguration trigger latency using this approach

Hepatoprotective and antiproliferative activity of moringinine, chlorogenic acid and quercetin

Background: The three well-characterized phytochemicals in Moringa oleifera leaves are moringinine, quercetin, and chlorogenic acid. Moringa oleifera is postulated to have the highest antioxidant content in food and also has a remarkable range of medicinal uses and high nutritional value.Methods: Evaluation of the antiproliferative effect of moringinine, quercetin and chlorogenic acid as well Moringa oleifera leaves extract on two human cell lines, breast cancer cell line (MCF7) and liver carcinoma cell line (HepG2) using the sulforhodamine B (SRB) assay. The efficacy on liver toxicity induced in rat by alloxan was carried out.Results: Our results indicated that both quercetin and moringinine are strong antitumor agents against the two human cell lines, the extract and its three active ingredients improved the induced liver toxicity.Conclusions: Quercetin and moringinine are responsible to a great extent for the antitumor activity of the whole extract. Chlorogenic acid is a potent hepatoprotective in alloxan induced liver toxicity

Thermal Equilibrium as an Initial State for Quantum Computation by NMR

We present a method of using a nuclear magnetic resonance computer to solve the Deutsch-Jozsa problem in which: (1) the number of molecules in the NMR sample is irrelevant to the number of qubits available to an NMR quantum computer, and (2) the initial state is chosen to be the state of thermal equilibrium, thereby avoiding the preparation of pseudopure states and the resulting exponential loss of signal as the number of qubits increases. The algorithm is described along with its experimental implementation using four active qubits. As expected, measured spectra demonstrate a clear distinction between constant and balanced functions.Comment: including 4 figure