near-fault ground motions with long-period pulses can place severe demands on structures near an active fault. these pulse-type ground motions can be represented by pulse sequences with simple shapes. half-sinusoidal pulse sequences are used to approximate recorded ground motions and dynamic responses of sdof system under the excitation of these pulse sequences are studied. four cases are consi...

Let G be an additive finite abelian group with exponent exp(G). Let S = g1 · . . . · gl be a sequence over G and k(S) = ord(g1)+· · ·+ord(gl) be its cross number. Let η(G) (resp. t(G)) be the smallest integer t such that every sequence of t elements (repetition allowed) from G contains a non-empty zero-sum subsequence T of length |T | ≤ exp(G) (resp. k(T ) ≤ 1). It is easy to see that t(G) ≥ η(...

Classification of blocks of subband samples according to their energy and variable bit allocation within the subsequent classes has demonstrated considerable gains in coding efficiency. The gains due to classification increase as smaller blocks are used; however, this increases the overheads for transmitting the classification information. In this paper, a quadtree based method is proposed. Thi...

The use of subband coding on image data is discussed. An overviev~ of siibbai~d coding is given. Advantages of subbanding for browsing and progressive resol~itiori ar-e presented. Implementations for lossless and lossy coding are discussed. Algorithn~ considerations and simple implementations of subband systems are given.

The financial system of the United States contains two large subsystems. The function of the first, generally referred to as monetary policy, is to control the total volume of credit for the purpose of aggregate economic stabilization. The second sub-system, which has no name, consists of a maze of regulations, institutions and tax practices designed to influence the allocation of credit, and h...