The research leading to this paper was prompted by the need to estimate strength and stiffness of Rigid Rocking Cores (RRCs) as essential elements of resilient earthquake resisting structures. While a limited number of such studies have been reported, no general study in terms of physical properties of RRCs, their appendages and adjoining structures have been published. Despite the growing know...

Associated to the Bergman kernels of a polarized toric \kahler manifold $(M, \omega, L, h)$ are sequences measures $\{\mu_k^z\}_{k=1}^{\infty}$ parametrized by points $z \in M$. For each $z$ in open orbit, we prove central limit theorem for $\mu_k^z$. The center mass $\mu_k^z$ is image under moment map; after re-centering at $0$ and dilating $\sqrt{k}$, re-normalized measure tends centered Gaus...

1 Overview To provide context for the discussions of centering that appear in this volume, we review our previous research on global focusing and centering and discuss central unsolved problems in the theory of centering. This paper does not provide a comprehensive review of work on centering, as this volume in its entirety serves that purpose. Rather we present our view of the history of cente...

I propose that tense and mood paradigms are grammatical centering systems. Specifically, English tenses form a temporal centering system, which monitors and updates topic times, whereas Kalaallisut moods form a modal centering system, which monitors and updates modal discourse referents. Nevertheless, English and Kalaallisut translation equivalents converge on the same truth conditions, due to ...

This paper analyzes both the strong points and weak points of OSPF routing protocol from security perspective. On its strong points, we abstract its features of information least dependency and information hiding, which make it very robust and fault resilient, even when facing certain malicious attacks. On its weak points, we take a pragmatic look at various problems centering round secure rout...