The structural behaviour of adjacent buildings during a pounding and the impact which has been subject discussion for many years soil-structure interaction (SSI) ignored in design due to its complexity. However, recent research showed that SSI effects can increase lateral deflections structures founded on soft deposits. also affect inter-storey drifts similar founding soil, causing inelastic su...

The present study sought to explore the impact of story maps and audio podcasts as scaffolds on oral proficiency of Iranian EFL learners. The quasi-experimental study was launched with 36 EFL undergraduates in three groups by adopting a counterbalanced 3  3 Latin squared design. All participants were indiscriminately, but in a specified order, exposed to the three treatment conditions of story ...

minimalist story is a kind of very short story that is summarized sometimes in some lines and sometimes in one page. it tells a short event and in addition includes deep contents.studying verses of holy quran we can see stories in different forms and lengths. meanwhile there are some storiesthat are not more than some lines in lengthso it is possible for the researcher to evaluate these stories...

Although the benefits of using timber in midand high-rise construction are undisputed, there are perceived shortcomings with respect to the ductility needed to provide seismic resistance and a corresponding lack of appropriate design guidance. Overcoming these perceived shortcomings will allow timber, and its wood product derivatives, to further expand into the multi-storey construction sector,...

Scatterometer derived products have become an important input dataset for climate change research. For this reason accurate radiometric calibration of scatterometer is a prime requirement from the scientific community to enable them to establish a long-term consistent scatterometer dataset. The calibration method that we introduce here is a stepwise relative calibration approach using extended ...

Topic Detection classifies stories into different topics, but HTD requires more than that. Is there any other entities between a story and a topic? [10] views a topic as a structure of inter-related events, which gives us a good hint for this new task. Experiments in [10] show that time locality is a very useful attribute in event organization, and it can also help to solve the complexity probl...

Stories take hundreds of different forms and serve many functions. They can be as energetic as an entire life story or as simple as directions to a favorite beach. Technological developments challenge and change storytelling processes. The invention of writing changed the story from an orally recounted form, mediated by the storyteller, to a recorded version which was technologically reproducib...