Evolva Holding (United States)

In passive control systems in wooden houses, the members and joints around the damper (: support member) tend to be deformed locally, which reduce the energy absorption of the damper. The authors have proposed the passive control system with post-tensioned and reinforced support members. In this paper, the effectiveness of the system is verified from the mechanical and dynamic characteristics and seismic behavior obtained through static and dynamic tests and shaking table tests. Also, the maximum response prediction method of the passively controlled wooden frame with oil dampers is proposed and predict the results of the shaking table tests.

This article analyzes the main legal trends in the field of maximum electrical capacity reserve in the Russian Federation in the light of energy law innovations. The article examines the various meanings of the concept of maximum electrical capacity reserve, the development trends of the legal substance of the institution of maximum electrical capacity reserve, and contains a comparative legal analysis of foreign law provisions. The identified aspects of the new institution of Russian energy law allow us to conclude that there is excessive public legal regulation of private law relations in this field. The author substantiates the point of view that the potential development of a standard agreement with a condition for maximum electrical capacity reserve will affect the reduction of the discretion of the parties to the agreement and upset the balance of interests of all parties to the legal relations in question. The article discusses options of using the most balanced mechanism for legal regulation of relations associated with maximum electrical capacity reserve in Russia.

While there has been much work on finding and developing top performers in the workplace, less attention has been focused on how to manage those workers who are harmful to organizational performance. In the most dramatic form, such workers can generate enormous regulatory and legal liabilities for the firm, harm its reputation, and invalidate its corporate social responsibility program. We explore a large dataset of over 50,000 workers across 11 different firms to document a variety of aspects of workers characteristics and circumstances that lead them to engage in actual toxic behavior. We also find that removing a toxic worker or converting him into an average worker enhances organizational performance to a much greater extent than replacing an average worker with a superstar worker.

Based on the research of situation of handicapped people at earthquake in Kobe and Tottori [1,2], we designed “Information Delivery System for Deaf People at a Larger Disaster (IDDD)” using on mobile phone and ad hoc networking technology with evaluation test performed at many different locations for five years. We confirmed that the size and color of characters are legible and recognizable. There are, however, many different requirements at the different demo location and attendances. However, IDDD is not enough flexible to meet every requests, so that we needed to modify software both in display controller and mobile phone application. In this paper, we propose a designing method to enhance system flexibility, after explaining basic idea of IDDD.

Heterochromatin patterns were analyzed in the genus Ctenomys from Uruguay which exhibits high karyotype variability. Different amounts and localizations of heterochromatin were observed in species and populations analyzed. While species as C. rionegrensis presented heterochromatic arms in all the chromosomes of the karyotype, other species like C. torquatus showed only few chromosomes with pericentric heterochromatin. At the pachytene stage, bivalents merge in densely stained chromocenters. We detected in these chromocenters the typical highly repeated DNA of this genus after in situ hybridization, the M31 chromodomain through immunofluorescence as well as dense Giemsa staining after C-banding. In species that present low amounts of heterochromatin, only 1 or 2 chromocenters were observed in which bivalents merge as observed in C. rionegrensis. After BRCA1 immunodetection we observed in early pachytene cells positive spots located over heterochromatic chromocenters that strongly suggest heterochromatic DNA repair. Mechanical stress mainly due to increasing chromatin compactness before metaphase I might be a mechanism to spread heterochromatin between different chromosomes within a karyotype.