A performance-based seismic design (PBSD) method is aimed at controlling the structural damage based on precise estimations of proper response parameters. PBSD method evaluates the performance of a building frame for any seismic hazard, the building may experience. Use of this method for vertical irregular building is verified with comparison of conventional method. Vertical irregular frame is ...

Nowadays we have heterogeneous wireless environment with several wireless access technologies which can provide to the users seamless and continuous Quality of Service. For real-time applications is crucial to have satisfying QoS during vertical handovers between different wireless and mobile networks, for different velocities of the mobile users. In this paper we propose a solution for improvi...

A performance-based seismic design (PBSD) method is aimed at controlling the structural damage based on precise estimations of proper response parameters. PBSD method evaluates the performance of a building frame for any seismic hazard, the building may experience. Use of this method for vertical irregular building is verified with comparison of conventional method. Vertical irregular frame is ...

The instantaneous linkages between cloud vertical structure and various large-scale meteorological parameters are investigated using 5 years of data from the CloudSat/CALIPSO instruments. The linkages are systemically explored and quantified at all vertical levels and throughout the global ocean in both the long-term mean and on month-to-month timescales. A number of novel large-scale meteorolo...

To identify preoperative factors which influence the effectiveness of strabismus surgery in adults, we retrospectively reviewed the records of 179 patients > 15 years old (131 with exotropia, 48 with esotropia) who had had combined recession and resection surgery for correction of horizontal strabismus. Eighteen preoperative variables were evaluated; those with significant influence on the surg...

BACKGROUND A previous submission defined methods to objectively define nipple position and vertical and horizontal skin excess in mastopexy and breast reduction. This article defines a set of second-stage processes for quantified design and operative planning for skin envelope modification. METHODS A skin envelope modification procedure (periareolar, periareolar plus vertical, or periareolar ...

A method is presented by which combined S-band polarimetric weather radar and UHF wind profiler observations of precipitation can be used to extract the properties of liquid phase hydrometeors and the vertical velocity of the air through which they are falling. Doppler spectra, which contain the air motion and/or fall speed of hydrometeors, are estimated using the vertically pointing wind profi...

This paper explores the fusion of inertial information with vision for 3D reconstruction. A method is proposed for vertical line segment detection and subsequent local geometric map building. Visual and inertial sensing are two sensory modalities that can be explored to give robust solutions on image segmentation and recovery of 3D structure from images, increasing the capabilities of autonomou...

This study used both time and frequency domain analyses to investigate walking patterns with ankle load in children and adults. Twenty-two children aged 7-10 years and 20 young adults participated in this study. Three levels of ankle load were manipulated: no load, low load (2% of body mass on each side), and high load (4% of body mass on each side). An instrumented treadmill was used to regist...

— Various model parameter calculation equations of RF CMOS inductors are compared. The calculation equations are using as variables either Y, Z-parameters or S-parameters. Results are based on on-wafer RF S-parameter measurements of a 3.75 turn spiral inductor fabricated in AMIS 0.7 μm CMOS DM1P n-well technology. Results obtained with calculation equations for a differentially driven inductor ...