Two separate groups of numerical applications are presented, checking influence of the self-induced stresses: a unrestrained concrete prism usually used for shrinkage measurement, and concrete slabs subjected to external loads.
Checking influences manually is slow and prone to errors.
Further exploration of the mechanism by which body checking influences body dissatisfaction would be of interest and clinical relevance.
The tool, called Checking Influence, is a downloadable browser bookmark that analyzes your online credit card or bank account statement and presents you with a summary of the lobbying activities and campaign contributions of the companies you do business with, noting how much is going to Democrats versus Republicans.
Its Transparency Data website, for example, is a database of federal and state campaign contributions, federal grants and contracts, and lobbying disclosures going back 20 years; Party Time keeps track of the political party circuit; Checking Influence is a database of campaign contributions and lobbying activity by companies.
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The country's involvement in Afghanistan after the U.S. invaded in 2001 — it deployed special forces in 2003 and also invested in building mosques and hospitals — was all about checking Tehran's influence, a U.S. official tells Chandrasekaran.
General Golan told the Israel Hayom newspaper that Israel could work with "many hundreds" of Syrian fighters who share "a common interest" in checking the influence of extremists.
From this study, it appears that the process of body checking only influences body dissatisfaction for a brief period and then body dissatisfaction returns to its baseline level.
In Pittsburgh in 1906, a personal registration law, sponsored by Republicans to check the influence of a crusading reformer, cut the number of registered voters in half.
