A ‘‘building code’’ for preference measurement is needed in a world in which many expressions of preference are constructed when people are asked a valuation question. Construction of preferences Ž . means that preference measurement is best viewed as architecture building a set of values rather than Ž . as archaeology uncovering existing values . We describe potential faults in the process of ...

We report on the development of a test-particle based kinetic Monte Carlo code for large systems and its application to simulate matter in the continuum regime. Our code combines advantages of the Direct Simulation Monte Carlo and the Point-of-Closest-Approach methods to solve the collision integral of the Boltzmann equation. With that, we achieve a high spatial accuracy in simulations while ma...

in this article, we tried to emphasis in how the range of torsionally stiff and flexible single story buildings works. the designed base was according to provisions of the canadian standard, 2005 nbcc. the behavior of nonlinear dynamic time history of eight building models subjected to seven horizontal bi-directional ground motions compatible with design spectra are investigated. these models c...