The importance of the equipment and secondary systems in seismic design and performance evaluation is well recognized and has been the subject of many studies. In all of these studies, earthquake is considered as a single component, and in most of them the primary system is considered as shear building. Most attention has been concentrated on the response of secondary system and its response sp...

To prospect mineral deposits at regional scale, recognition and classification of hydrothermal alteration zones using remote sensing data is a popular strategy. Due to the large number of spectral bands, classification of the hyperspectral data may be negatively affected by the Hughes phenomenon. A practical way to handle the Hughes problem is preparing a lot of training samples until the size ...

This paper provides a methodology to quantify the interrelationship between the seismic intensity parameters and the structural damage. First, a computer-supported elaboration of the accelerograms provides several peak, spectral and energy seismic parameters. After that, nonlinear dynamic analyses are carried out to provide the structural response for a set of seismic excitations. Among the sev...

This work provides a systematic comparison of vibrational CD (VCD) and electronic CD (ECD) methods for spectral prediction of secondary structure. The VCD and ECD data are simplified to a small set of spectral parameters using the principal component method of factor analysis (PC/FA). Regression fits of these parameters are made to the X-ray-determined fractional components (FC) of secondary st...

The analytic continuation method of homogenization theory provides Stieltjes integral representations for the effective parameters of composite media. These representations involve the spectral measures of self-adjoint random operators which depend only on the composite geometry. On finite bond lattices, these random operators are represented by random matrices and the spectral measures are giv...

The concept of golden spectral graphs is introduced and some of their general properties reported. Golden spectral graphs are those having a golden proportion for the spectral ratios defined on the basis of the spectral gap, spectral spread and the difference between the second largest and the smallest eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix. They are good expanders and display excellent synchroniza...

Remote sensing technology is very useful in getting synoptic estimates of grass bio-parameters which is important for rangeland monitoring . The retrieval of bio-parameters is usually realized by developing empirical regression formula. However, it is less convincing if the regression line is built on limited observations from one growth stage . In this research, three field surveys were carrie...

In this paper, we perform a detailed study of the spectral response of the gold U-shaped nano-structures for different geometrical parameters and polarizations in order to obtain significant localization factor in the wavelength 1.55 μm. The obtained near-field distribution of electric fields reveals that resonances in these nano-structures correspond to the even and odd plasmonic modes dependi...