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    Since the 1960’s prefabricated trusses have become more popular. They allow for architects to design structures with large open floor plans. They have become especially common in large metal buildings that require large spans. Prefabricated trusses are made of a variety of materials including hot rolled and cold formed steel, timber, and other metals. Prefabricated trusses’ popularity has rapidly increased because they are lightweight, stable, easy to install, and cheap (Grogan, 2007). Because they

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    Ultralight Beam Analysis

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    various reasons, songs such as “Ultralight Beam” leave the listener inspired and motivated to change. Kanye West and various artists combine church gospel vocals and different styles of lyrics with long pulsing chords of music to describe his trust with God, creating an uplifting piece of music. The music establishes an enlightening mood, yet does not detract the

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    Beam Routine Analysis

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    The judge raises her hand, a sign for me to begin my beam routine. Beam. A four-inch piece of wood that they expect us to jump, twist, and flip on while never losing our balance. It seems illogical, but girls everywhere risk their lives performing these acrobatic skills just to place first at every competition. And I am one of them. As I approach my greatest opponent, never having conquered it at all in the season, I remember all the hours of practicing I had to prepare for this moment—the national

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    AM 317 Experiment 1 Essay

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    MECHANICS LAB EXPERIMENT 1 BEAM DEFLECTIONS TEST PERFORMED: FEBRUARY 4, 2015 REPORT SUBMITTED: FEBRUARY 11, 2015 BY HAGOP MERTEKHANIAN Student I.D # 105200288 Wednesday 7:00 pm GROUP 1 ABSTRACT Deflections of a beam are important to be able predict the amount of deflection for a given loading situation. This experiment addresses determining the yield point for a material to fail, so the stress in the material does not have to reach to that point. This is where understanding beam deflection becomes a

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    A Summary Of Melody Beam

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    As of Pioneer High School, I have now taught a variety of subjects such as English, Accelerated English, Yearbook, and Journalism. My student, Melody Beam has spent 3 out of four years in my classroom. She has accumulated two years of journalism knowledge, even promoted her to an editor. But she originally was in my accelerated english 3-4 class. The classes Melody took were evidently harder than other classes. Accelerated english provided a lot more opportunities where she had to work harder such

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    Kyle J. Holland Dr. Clinton Atchley University Writing 18 September 2014 The Philosopher’s Beam The Flitcraft parable tells of a Tacoma real estate agent who abandons his comfortable job, wife, and two children a day after a falling beam narrowly misses him in the street. As Spade tells it: “He went like that, like a fist when you open your hand” (Hammett 58). The incorporation of this short story has little if any significance on the actual plot of The Maltese Falcon. Through the character analysis

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    Discussion: The graph produce a straight line that passes through the origin, with the distance between adjacent maxima ( ) and the inverse of the slit separation producing a having an equation of . This indicates that there is a direct proportionality between and . As the slit separation increased, the distance between adjacent maxima decreased, and as the slit separation decreased, the distance between adjacent maxima increases. The data from this experiment has the relationship , and by

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    –External Beam Therapy to Eliminate Cancer According to The American Cancer Society, 43.92% of males and 38% of females have the risk of developing cancer during his/her lifetime (“Lifetime Risk,” 2013). External beam therapy is a common cancer treatment that is distributed from a machine and is focused on the cancer inside the patient (External Beam Therapy, 2014). The treatment is a lot like getting an x-ray only the treatment is more time-consuming and uses a high dosage of radiation which is

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    systems. In this paper, the behavior of composite beam-column connections is examined through results of an experimental research program where15 two-thirds scale joint specimens were tested under monotonic and cyclic loading. Such connections are typically employed in composite framed structures consistingof steel beams and reinforced concrete or composite columns. Significant strength increases were

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    I was watching TV today and I saw a Jim Beam commercial featuring the actress Mila Kunis. In this commercial Mila talks about how Jim Beam has made their bourbon the same way that they have for years and years. Mila talks about how their bourbon better with age and people expect the great traditional taste. This commercial reminded me of

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