How is the visual system able to maintain object identity as the objects or the eyes move? While many early studies have shown small or no influence of feature information on this correspondence process, more recent studies have shown large feature effects. Here we investigated if this incongruity might be due to the distance over which the feature influence has an effect. We used a variation o...

Jakarta is a heavily populated city, which has been experiencing ongoing ground subsidence for several decades, due to heavy use of groundwater, soil characteristics and tectonic motion. It is expected that this ground motion will increasingly impact upon flood risk management and ongoing development of the city, in particular critical infrastructure. Persistent Scatterer Interferometry (PSI) i...

Almost all living species regularly explore environments that they experience as pleasant, aversive, arousing or frightening. We postulate that such exploratory behavior and emotional experience both are regulated based on the interdependent perception of one's body and stimuli that collectively define a spatial context such as a cliff. Here we examined this by testing if the interaction of the...

The relationship between the ground motion intensity measure (IM) and the engineering demand parameter (EDP) is analysed in the paper so as to identify and define the most efficient EDP-IM relationships for RC high-rise buildings. A 30-story RC high-rise building with the core wall structural system was selected as the reference building. 240 nonlinear time-history analyses were conducted for 6...

In the paper a detailed analysis of the dynamic response of a cooling tower shell to mining tremors originated from two main regions of mining activity in Poland (Upper Silesian Coal Basin and Legnica-Glogow Copper District) was presented. The representative time histories registered in the both regions were used as ground motion data in calculations of the dynamic response of the structure. It...

An analysis method called macro-micro analysis method has been proposed to compute strong ground motion distribution with highest spatial and temporal resolution, which is based on multi-scale analysis. Strong ground motion (SGM) simulator with high-resolution is developed using this analysis method. Basic validity is verified by comparison with measured data. Prototype of Integrated Earthquake...

We present a parallel octree-based finite element method for large-scale earthquake ground motion simulation in realistic basins. The octree representation combines the low memory per node and good cache performance of finite difference methods with the spatial adaptivity to local seismic wavelengths characteristic of unstructured finite element methods. Several tests are provided to verify the...

Detecting beats, estimating tempo, aligning scores to audio, and detecting onsets are all interesting problems in the field of music information retrieval. In much of this research, it is convenient to think of beats as occuring at precise time points. However, anyone who has attempted to label beats by hand soon realizes that precise annotation of music audio is not possible. A common method o...

The earthquake ground motions of over 1700 earthquakes recorded on a small-aperture strong-motion array in south Iceland (ICEARRAY I) that is situated relatively uniform site condition characterized as rock, exhibit statistically significant spatial variation ground-motion amplitudes across the array. Both and microseismic horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratios (HVSR) have been shown to distinc...