History records that Aceh has been hit by earthquakes several times, including the largest recorded, on December 26, 2004 with a magnitude of 9.3 SR. In connection history disasters have occurred, there is need for safety and disaster preparedness. It very important to conduct feasibility study existing public buildings used in preparedness vulnerability against earthquakes. The type building d...

This paper, introduces a new methodology for the design and analysis of digital watermarking systems which, from an information theoretic point of view, incorporates robustness and fragility. The proposed methodology is developed by focusing on the probability of error versus watermark-to-noise ratio curve, describing the technique performance, and a scenario for coded techniques which takes in...

Abnormalities in osmotic fragility have been observed in hereditary spherocytosis, hereditary elliptocytosis, pyruvate kinase deficiency, thalassaemia and iron-deficient red cells (1). Harris et al have reported a decrease in osmotic fragility of the red cells of sickle cell anaemia patients from Africa (2). The Indian patients are genetically and clinically different from the African patients ...

A precise and highly reproducible method for analyzing the osmotic fragility of erythrocytes with a minute amount of blood (less than 10 mul) is described. The osmotic fragility curves are recorded with a coil planet centrifuge with accessories and a scanning photodensitometer. The recorded curves are transcribed by a DuPont Curve Resolver and their components are analyzed. Normal fragility cur...

This paper represents the first effort in seismic fragility analysis of a structure using a structural analysis model developed on the basis of measured vibration data. An instrumented highway bridge is used to demonstrate the analysis procedure involving measuring ambient vibration, identifying modal parameters from the measured data, updating a preliminary FE model (obtained from structural d...

Structural engineers, researchers, code committees, and regulatory bodies have become increasingly interested in performance-based design of structures, systems, and components (SSCs) in the past few years. This has been demonstrated by the publication of codes for the performance-based design of traditional buildings, and by publication of a consensus standard for evaluating the seismic perfor...

Oxygenated sterol compounds (OSC), when incubated for 1 hr with human erythrocytes in lipoprotein-depleted medium at concentrations of 0.625-5 X 10(-5) M, are inserted into the cell membrane and remain there despite subsequent washing of the cells. The insertion results in expansion of the surface area of the red cell ghost membrane, an increase in critical hemolytic volume, and as a consequenc...

Abstract Fragility curves are the primary way of assessing seismic risk for a building with numerous studies focused on deriving these fragility and how to account inherent uncertainty in assessment. This study focuses three-story steel moment frame structure performs assessment using new approach called SPO2FRAG (Static Pushover Fragility) that is based pushover analysis. further compared cont...