The question of whether architectural creativity is more of an artistic or engineering nature is one with a long history but also one with no conclusive answer. The art camp would argue that technology should be treated as a means towards and end, and that technology alone cannot give meaning to our lives. The engineering camp on the other hand would argue that good problem-solving result...

Broadband (0.1–20 Hz) synthetic seismograms for finite-fault sources were produced for a model where stress drop is constant with seismic moment to see if they can match the magnitude dependence and distance decay of response spectral amplitudes found in the Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) relations recently developed from strong-motion data of crustal earthquakes in tectonically active regio...

Depth-varying characteristics of high-frequency seismic radiation for megathrust earthquakes have been inferred from several recent giant earthquakes and large tsunami earthquakes. To quantify any depth dependence more extensively, we analyzed 114 Mw ≥ 7.0 thrust-faulting earthquakes with centroid depths from 5 to 55 km on circum-Pacific megathrusts using teleseismic body wave finite-fault inve...

the question of whether architectural creativity is more of an artistic or engineering nature is one with a long history but also one with no conclusive answer. the art camp would argue that technology should be treated as a means towards and end, and that technology alone cannot give meaning to our lives. the engineering camp on the other hand would argue that good problem-solving results in b...

Employing the Lanczos algorithm in combination with a kernel polynomial moment expansion (KPM) and the maximum entropy method (MEM), we show a way of calculating charge and spin excitations in the Holstein t–J model, including the full quantum nature of phonons. To analyze polaron band formation we evaluate the hole spectral function for a wide range of electron–phonon coupling strengths. For t...

Barkhausen noise, including both periodic and aperiodic components, is found in and near the relaxor regime of a familiar relaxor ferroelectric, PbMg1/3Nb2/3O3, driven by a periodic electric field. The temperature dependences of both the amplitude and spectral form show that the size of the coherent dipole moment changes shrink as the relaxor regime is entered, contrary to expectations based on...

Using Lagrange’s multiplier rule, we find upper and lower bounds of the energy of a bipartite graph G, in terms of the number of vertices, edges and the spectral moment of fourth order. Moreover, the upper bound is attained in a graph G if and only if G is the graph of a symmetric balanced incomplete block design (BIBD). Also, we determine the graphs for which the lower bound is sharp.  2003 E...

The structure and dynamics of luminescent excitons in tetracene thin films and nanoaggregates are investigated using time-resolved spectroscopy and theoretical calculations. The orientation of tetracene's transition dipole moment along its short molecular axis leads to properties qualitatively different from those observed in aggregates of phenylene-vinylene and thiophene oligomers, despite sim...

Metal chelates of Schiff base derived from thiophene-2-aldehyde with 4-aminoantipyrine have been synthesized. The ligand and the complexes have been characterized by IR, molar conductance, magnetic moments, EPR, cyclic voltammetry, XRD and SEM measurements. Computational studies were also carried out. The geometry of the complexes was investigated by electronic spectral data and magnetic moment...

We obtain an inequality complementary to the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in Hilbert space. The inequalities involving first three powers of a self-adjoint operator are derived. The inequalities include the bounds for the third central moment, as a special case. It is shown that an upper bound for the spectral radius of a matrix is a root of a particular cubic equation, provided all eigenvalues ar...