Moreover, they were also able to overcome initial stimulus preferences in the conditioned reinforcement study but, unlike controls, failed to develop a response bias towards the visual stimulus paired with the conditioned reinforcer.
The AI/AN participants were included in the 18-month reinforcement study.
Because reinforcement was not associated with any improvements (see below under reinforcement study), the two treatment groups were combined for the 6-month comparison to usual-care control subjects, as well as kept separate.
Bruce Sexauer, chief of planning for the Army Corps' Alaska district office, said the corps is currently considering funding for additional relocation or reinforcement studies for Shishmaref as part of its budget request for next year -- but it's unclear whether they will get it.
Among the geosynthetic reinforcements studied, strip-type reinforcements and composite-type geogrids showed excellent long-term performance.
But no single subjective quality imagined by theorists seems invariably effective in reinforcement studies.
Although SFRC is mainly used along with mild steel bars as transverse reinforcement, studies have shown (Dhonde 2006) that presence of only steel fibers could enhance the shear behavior of concrete even in the absence of mild steel.
In this study, the reinforcement of wooden beams with fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) for restorative and constructive purposes was investigated.
