The role of higher-“mode” pushover analyses in seismic analysis of buildings is examined in this paper. It is demonstrated that the higher-“mode” pushover curves reveal plastic hinge mechanisms that are not detected by the first-“mode” or other FEMA-356 force distributions, but these purely local mechanisms are not likely to develop during realistic ground motions in an otherwise regular buildi...

HURRICANE KATRINA WAS THE MOST DEVASTATING natural disaster in US history. Large parts of New Orleans and nearby Louisiana parishes were destroyed. About 90 000 square miles of the Gulf Coast, an area roughly the size of Great Britain, was declared a federal disaster area. The often contaminated flood waters covering much of New Orleans for almost 2 months contained a mix of raw sewage, bacteri...

Staphylococcus capitis EPK1 produces a glycylglycine endopeptidase, ALE-1 (M. Sugai, T. Fujiwara, T. Akiyama, M. Ohara, H. Komatsuzawa, S. Inoue, and H. Suginaka, J. Bacteriol. 179:1193-1202, 1997), which hydrolyzes interpeptide pentaglycine chains of cell wall peptidoglycan of S. aureus. Characterizations of the enzyme activity and cloning of ale-1 revealed that ALE-1 is very similar to prolys...

با توجه به عدم­‌قطعیت‌های حاکم بر پروژه‌های عمرانی و تفاوت بارز آن‌ها صنایع خدماتی تولیدی از منظر محدوده زمان‌بندی کار، عوامل محیطی چالش‌های اجرایی، پیمانکاران کارفرمایان همواره اختلافات دعاوی قراردادی مواجه هستند. در چنین شرایطی، پژوهشی موضوع ضروری است. هدف این پژوهش، شناسایی مرتبط فرآیندهای طرح ادعا رویه مواجهه چالش‌ها راستا، لوایح ادعایی ارزیابی شدند. روش پژوهش به‌صورت کمّی ـ کیفی مشتمل بررسی...

Abstract Introduction The cardiac anomalies associated with left and right atrial appendage isomerism (LAAI RAAI) are systematically described. However, for the abdominal abnormalities, only laterality of organs, cardinality spleen (asplenia or polysplenia) presence absence intestinal malrotation noted. This study aimed to describe in greater detail anatomy heterotaxia. Method A detailed review...

This paper focuses on information acquisition and individual decision making in ambiguous situations and presents a novel experimental design which may help to tackle open questions from a fresh perspective. Instead of giving subjects the choice between risky and ambiguous Ellsberg urns, we let them choose between a safe option and a risky lottery, whose risk is a priori unknown to subjects. By...

Analysis of V3 and C4 sequences of HIV-1 reveals correlated mutations at gp120 positions 322 and 440, and a very strong preference for a positively charged residue at position 440 when position 322 is negatively charged. This observation suggests that these two residues are close to each other and interact electrostatically in R5 viruses. This interaction was used to model V3 in the context of ...