In this paper, we investigate the possibility to use two tilings of the hyperbolic plane as basic frame for devising a way to input texts in Chinese characters into messages of cellphones, smartphones, ipads and tablets.

Shear wall is one of the most commonly used lateral load resisting in high rise building. Shear wall has high in plane stiffness and strength which can be used to simultaneously resist large horizontal load and support gravity load. The objective of the present study is to study the behavior of building frame in the lateral load analysis of shear wall-frame structures; a fundamental goal is to ...

Using deep HST ACS imaging and VLT FORS2 spectra, we determined the velocity dispersions, effective radii and surface brightnesses for four early-type galaxies in the z = 1.237 cluster RDCS 1252.9-2927. All four galaxies are massive, > 10 11 M ⊙. These four galaxies, combined with three from RDCS 0848+4453 at z = 1.276, establish the Fundamental Plane of massive early-type cluster galaxies at ¯...

background: in general, measurements of solar ultraviolet (uv) radiation are related to horizontal surfaces. while the hu­mans walking and standing outdoors expose to the natural solar uv radiation, their eyes, cheeks, extremities, trunks, or many other anatomical sites are close to vertical plane and random orient to different directions. in this study, we character­ized the diurnal variations...

This works reports on gaseous detectors developments made in the frame of the EXO double-beta decay experiment. LEM (Large Electron Multiplication) are electron amplification grids based on GEM. They were developed in Neuchâtel (1) and showed remarquable resistance to sparks. The new SILEM grid combines the properties of the standard LEM with a micropatterned x − y readout plane on one of the g...

Fluorescence polarization (FP) is a fluorescence detection technique that is based on the observation that fluorescent molecules, when excited by plane polarized light, will emit plane polarized light. In solution, proteins are free to rotate, thus the plane of polarized light emitted can change based on the fluorescence lifetime of the fluorophore in question and the extent of rotation the mol...

We study the properties of the chaotic wave fields generated in the frame of the SasaSatsuma equation when a plane wave solution is randomly perturbed with a white noise. We have found that plane waves with different propagation constant splits into selffocused filaments, that propagate with a velocity which is well approximately given by the group velocity calculated from the dispersion relati...

Abstract:   Previous research on bracing members show that the ductility of bracing members is compromised due to the buckling phenomena. Therefore, many researchers have tried to use special considerations to increase the fracture life of bracing members. Some of these recommendations such as increasing the slenderness ratio, using lower width to thickness ratio, increasing the out-of-p...

In  this  paper  a  new  method  is  presented  for  structural  damage  identification.  First,  the damaged structure is  excited by short  duration impact acceleration  and then, the  recorded structural displacement time history responses under free vibration conditions are analyzed by Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) and Wavelet Residual Force (WRF) is calculated. Finally, an effective d...