International Journal of Engineering Research and General Science

6-12

Authors: Thamer A N. Alenezi

This paper has been prepared to evaluate whether the design and building codes of earthquakes resistance are used or not being used in Al Mutlaa city. A questionnaire survey has been carried out from a wide range of professional engineering, construction and architecture practitioners operating in Kuwait. The finding from this research revealed that the proper steel/concrete reinforcements are used in all projects of Al Mutlaa city, while the design/building codes of earthquakes resistance are not being used in Al Mutlaa city. The main conclusions from output of the data could help to develop a better understanding of the proper reason for why the design/building codes of earthquakes resistance are not being used in Al Mutlaa city. Keywords:- Steel, Concrete, Design, Building, Earthquake Resistance, Al-Mutlaa City, Kuwait.

6-13

Authors: Nureddin Ben Issa1 , Mustafa Lawar1 , Yaseen Elhebshib2

- In this study, the ion exchanger resin was hybridized to the selective resin in the form of R-AgCl (SCR). The SCR was used as a chemical adsorbent of thiocyanate from aqueous solutions. The effect of several factors on the efficiency of hybrid resin SCR in batch system has been studied. The factors were studied to obtain the optimal method of the adsorption process, the experiments were conducted with different of ; pH value, contact time, mass of SCR and the concentration of SCN- was also varied between 1.0 mgL-1 to 50 mgL-1 , while the experiments were investigated at temperature of 25 °C to 40 °C. The results showed that the adsorption process of SCN- on SCR is significantly affected by pH value and the concentration of SCN- , it was observed that the adsorption capacity increased in the acidic solution at pH value of ( pH 4.0, pH 5.0 and pH 6.0) it was found that the capacity of adsorption is reached up to 95.8% at temperature 25 °C. Keywords— thiocyanate, hybrid resin, AgCl, adsorption, aqueous solution, pH value

5-18

Authors: A Putcha1 , S Ferson1 , N Thornton1 , A Mannis1 , A Bhagavatula2

Abstract- This is an interdisciplinary paper integrating the concepts of engineering and Social sciences dealing with depression. This study mainly deals with audience engagement with representations of cinematic depression through Engineering risk analysis which is a continuation of the work by the authors (Putcha et al., 2020) and is part of the doctoral study of the first author at University of Liverpool. The main aim of this research work is to do a thorough review of the existing literature on depression as it relates to media, identify the main methods for measuring depression, and pick a suitable method for measuring depression and the associated Depression severity index (DSI) which is then calculated for various people before and after watching the selected movies. This will explore the effect that cinema has on depression of people. As part of the study a new method, called Liverpool method, has been developed without use of surveys to study the effect of movies on people with depression.