• allow teleparticipation by remote users in tests performed in any of the three laboratories, • provide open access to consistently formatted data from tests in the three laboratories, • enable synchronous distributed tests between the three laboratories, maximising the size of structure that can be tested, and • allow the laboratories to link into the US NEES network, giving access to advance...

ABSTRACT The method described in Part 1 of this paper was applied to about 30 earthquakes in various parts of the world. The modified single couple hypothesis proposed in Part 1 appears to explain the observations generally better than the double couple hypothesis. Surprisingly consistent pictures of tectonics were obtained in the Mediterranean region and in Japan on the basis of the modified s...

On March 11, 2011 an unusually strong earthquake, now called the Tohoku earthquake, occurred off the north-eastern coast of Japan's main island, Honshu. While the earthquake caused some destruction, the ensuing tsunami about three quarters of an hour later largely destroyed numbers of towns and devasted cities such as Sendai. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2011/2011031...

With the increased reliance on the Internet, digital piracy is a hot topic that is receiving substantial interest. And while most studies concentrate on understanding piracy in developed countries, few studies have been done in developing countries. In order to fill in this gap, this study reports on an experiment to deter/prevent digital piracy behavior in an Arab and a Middle Eastern country....

The so-called “phishing” attacks are one of the important threats to individuals and corporations in today’s Internet. Combatting phishing is thus a top-priority, and has been the focus of much work, both on the academic and on the industry sides. In this paper, we look at this problem from a new angle. We have monitored a total of 19,066 phishing attacks over a period of ten months and found t...

OBJECTIVE The features of earthquake-related head injuries may be different from those of injuries obtained in daily life because of differences in circumstances. We aim to compare the features of head traumas caused by the Sichuan earthquake with those of other common head traumas using multidetector computed tomography. METHODS In total, 221 patients with earthquake-related head traumas (th...

A recent technique that forms virtual ray lights (VRLs) from path segments in media, reduces the artifacts common to VPL approaches in participating media, however, distracting singularities still remain. We present Virtual Beam Lights (VBLs), a progressive many-lights algorithm for rendering complex indirect transport paths in, from, and to media. VBLs are efficient and can handle heterogeneou...

The residential earthquake insurance of 2002 created additional protected residential earthquake insurance plan, under which residential earthquake insurance is available to individuals from insurance industry in Taiwan. Earthquake damages that occurrence in Taiwan remain largely uninsured losses despite the efforts of governmental and private insurance programs. Spatial Econometrics has been r...

Modeling of earthquake sequences using an epidemic-type aftershock sequence model by Phys. Rev. E 66, 061104 (2002)] has led these authors to conclude that previous analyses of apparent earthquake diffusions were flawed. We show here that diffusion analyses based on spatiotemporal correlation measures for earthquake populations are an appropriate method for capturing the space-time coupling pre...

In order to quantify the internalization of stimulus control during skill learning, 20 rats were trained to complete a left-right sequence of lever presses guided by the onset and offset of panel lights over the respective levers. Once sequence accuracy was high and stable, the rats were divided into two groups. For the No-Lights group, the lights were eliminated without changing the response r...