32 Being able to effectively explore the visual world is of fundamental importance, and it has 33 been suggested that the straight-ahead gaze position within the egocentric reference frame 34 (“primary position”) might play a special role in this context. In the current study we 35 employed human electroencephalography (EEG) to examine neural activity related to the 36 spatial guidance of sacca...

This paper proposes a re-centering variable friction device (RVFD) for control of civil structures subjected to near-field earthquakes. The proposed hybrid device has two subcomponents. The first subcomponent of this hybrid device consists of shape memory alloy (SMA) wires that exhibit a unique hysteretic behavior and full recovery following post-transformation deformations. The second subcompo...

Design of experiment with related factors can be implemented by using the technique of sliding levels. Taguchi (1987) proposed an analysis strategy by re-centering and re-scaling the slid factors. Hamada and Wu (1995) showed via counter examples that in many cases the interactions cannot be completely eliminated by Taguchi’s strategy. They proposed an alternative method in which the slid factor...

For over a decade, researchers have consistently asserted that Muslims in the West are ‘research weary’ (Sangera and Thapar- Bjökert 2008: 544), ‘tired of too much research about them’ (Alvi et al. 2003: p. xv) concerned ‘not being given opportunity to shape is them (Scott-Baumann 2020). Research on Muslim Britain further complicated by social hierarchies popular discourses often position as ‘d...

Purpose Academic BIPOC librarians oftentime struggle to envision themselves and navigate in White-dominant spaces due deficit thinking. To better understand how DEIA efforts can bolster structural change academic libraries, the two authors opted lean on an asset-based exercise–imagining a positive work environment made possible through library staffed entirely by individuals. Design/methodology...

Due to lack of the proper and well behavior of steel moment-resisting connections subjected to the great and major earthquakes, excessive researches have been conducted to mitigate the damages on the primary elements and connections. Therefore, elimination of residual drift and increasing the plastic rotation capacity for the connectors in the panel zone are required. The main purpose of this s...

Our objectives in this paper are twofold. First, we introduce block bootstrap techniques that are (first order) valid in recursive estimation frameworks. Thereafter, we present two examples where predictive accuracy tests are made operational using our new bootstrap procedures. In one application, we outline a consistent test for out-of-sample nonlinear Granger causality, and in the other we ou...

A new target-refocusing technique based-on re-centering phase computation of previously recorded moving target raw data is implemented to the Spotlight SAR in order obtain refocused targets. The tested on integrated simulated data; background real spotlight Raw with synthetically generated domes civilian First Polar format Algorithm applied detect and estimate speed ground-moving targets data. ...