Traditionally, the estimation of modal parameters from a set of measured data has required significant experience. However, as the technology has matured, increasingly, analysis is being performed by less experienced engineers or technicians. To address this development, frequently software solutions are focusing upon either wizard-based or autonomous/semiautonomous approaches. A number of auto...

The semi-classical stability of several AdS NUT instantons is studied. Throughout, the notion of stability is that of stability at the one-loop level of Euclidean Quantum Gravity. Instabilities manifest themselves as negative eigenmodes of a modified Lichnerowicz Laplacian acting on the transverse traceless perturbations. An instability is found for one branch of the AdS-Taub-Bolt family of met...

This article presents a method to estimate flow variables for an open channel network governed by first-order, linear hyperbolic partial differential equations and subjected to periodic forcing. The selected external boundary conditions of the system are defined as the model input; the flow properties at internal locations, as well as the other external boundary conditions, are defined as the o...

In parametric speech coding, the accuracy of parameter quantization has a significant effect on speech quality. In this paper, we present a flexible and high-fidelity multi-mode quantization approach that combines the beneficial features of predictive vector quantization and matrix quantization. As an example, the proposed technique is employed in quantization of the power component in a wavefo...

A tool is needed to track several mode shape estimates from iterative or repeated (variability) testing. Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC) is a well known modal vector comparison tool, however it can compare only two modal vectors at a time. A method to compare multiple samples of modal vector is presented The approach begins with mode shape correlation and correspondence. Pseudo orthogonality is...

it seems that the general applicability of the quantum theory of atoms in molecules (qtaim) oncharacterizing the bonded interactions is still questionable even afier 30 years since its formulation. fordemonstrating the generality of bonding schemes in qta im, ea( isomers were chosen as the modelsystems and the results from molecular charge density analysis and vibrational normal modes werecompa...

Few would disagree, but a generation later, the statement remains a prophecy rather than fact. Although 41,000 protein structures are known, there are none for which there is a complete description of the dynamics that is often key to understanding functional mechanism. Despite keen interest in protein dynamics, studies have remained the purview of computer simulation while the challenges of ex...