Self-centering rocking walls are known as viable alternatives to typical shear walls, as they provide a number of solutions for eliminating seismic flaws of conventional designs. These rocking walls have a generally positive impact on the seismic behavior of structural systems, but their design makes them susceptible to concrete crushing around their base, which can lead to significantly advers...

There is a growing need for abstractions in logic specification languages such as FO(·) and ASP. One technique to achieve these abstractions are templates (sometimes called macros). While the semantics of templates are virtually always described through a syntactical rewriting scheme, we present an alternative view on templates as second order definitions. To extend the existing definition cons...

SIR,-The leading article on "The Therapeutic Uses of Vitamin E" (December 20, 1952, p. 1345) certainly calls for comment by us, the proponents of the use of a-tocopherol in cardiovascular disease. Such an article might conceivably have been written in 1948 or 1949. However, the picture has changed so rapidly since that time that your leading article now simply does not reflect the findings of i...

this paper uses the tsuji’s characteristic to investigate the uniqueness of transcen- dental meromorphic function with shared values in an angular domain dealing with the multiple values which improve a result of j. zheng.

In 1944 the Association for Education in Citizenship published a pamphlet entitled ‘Health’ by Major Jerry Morris1 (of the Royal Army Medical Corps), as one of a series of Handbooks for Discussion Groups. The preface to the pamphlets in this series said that they were intended to be used by discussion circles concerned with the social, economic and political problems that arose from the Second ...

Depression is a very common mood disorder, resulting in a loss of social function, reduced quality of life and increased mortality. Music interventions have been shown to be a potential alternative for depression therapy but the number of up-to-date research literature is quite limited. We present a review of original research trials which utilize music or music therapy as intervention to treat...