many old damaged and undamaged building structures do not meet the criteria of modern seismic design codes. such structures need to be seismically enhanced. the main objective of this paper is to propose and validate the effectiveness of an upgrade scheme for non-seismic buildings using steel plate shear walls (spsw). the upgrade is carried out considering a probability-based drift-based criter...

In this study, a rapid, simple and sensitive ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) method with corona discharge as ionization source was described for the morphine determination in human urine. Morphine was extracted and purified from urine samples using solid phase extraction procedure with C18 column. It can offer the clean extracts which no extra peaks were observed in IMS. Under operating experim...

Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is the causative agent of an acute vesicular disease affecting wild and domesticated animals. Despite the economic burden of the disease and all efforts to eradicate it, FMD outbreaks continue to emerge unexpectedly in developed and developing countries. Correlation of the mutational dynamics of the virus with its epidemiology remains unexplored. Analysis of ...

The English ’s possessive construction occurs frequently in text and can encode several different semantic relations; however, it has received limited attention from the computational linguistics community. This paper describes the creation of a semantic relation inventory covering the use of ’s, an inter-annotator agreement study to calculate how well humans can agree on the relations, a large...

In Japan, excavated soils generated from construction sites in urban areas are being disposed tolandfill as industrial waste. With limited land big cities, the landfill will be more and scarceand overload state next few years. Therefore, effective use of soil is anurgent issue. Liquefied Stabilized Soil (LSS) one methods using withconstruction works, has become popular Japan. Numerous previous ...