The design of earthquake-resistant buildings starts with defining the maximum lateral earthquake forces or their resultant. The amount of these forces depends on various factors, including coefficient of system behavior which depends on overstrength and its ductility. In this study, a method is presented for designing an earthquake-resistant system in which the distribution of lateral forces is...

reconnaissance drought index (rdi) is based on fitting a log-normal distribution to the ratio of precipitation to evapotranspiration (eto) values in selected periods. in this index value of eto were calculated based on mean temperature by thorenth-waite (th) method. th method, may underestimated eto values comparing to the actual in arid and semi arid regions. the log-normal distribution may no...

Five granitic rocks, concentrically disposed from core to rim, were distinguished in the Castelo Branco pluton. U-Pb-Th electron microprobe monazite ages from granitic rocks are similar and ranging between 297-303 Ma. The granitic rocks from Castelo Branco pluton are 310 ± 1 Ma old, obtained by U-Pb (ID-TIMS) in separated zircon and monazite crystals, indicating a similar emplacement age for al...

Andean Ores, having been approved in respect to style and intellectual content, is referred to you for judgment. We have read this thesis and recommend that it be approved. Lead isotope ratios of ores and igneous rocks in the Central and Southern Andes show a large-scale geographic pattern related to magmatic source processes. This pattern changes in the Northern Andes for reasons that are not ...

We test the predictions of the L-functions Ratios Conjecture for the family of cuspidal newforms of weight k and level N , with either k fixed and N → ∞ through the primes or N = 1 and k → ∞. We study the main and lower order terms in the 1-level density. We provide evidence for the Ratios Conjecture by computing and confirming its predictions up to a power savings in the family’s cardinality, ...

The classical distribution theory of the log likelihood ratio test statistic does not hold for testing homogeneity (i.e., no mixture) against mixture alternatives. Asymptotic theory for this problem is developed. For some special cases, asymptotically locally minimax tests are also found. It is pointed out that the main problem is lack of identifiability of the usual parameterization even when ...

Deep water samples collected in 1963 and 1964 in the adjacent seas of Japan were analyzed radiochemically. Sr-90 and Cs-137 were detected in the deep layers down to 6,000 meters deep and showed approximately uniform vertical distributions below 1,000 meters. Mean concentrations of Sr-90 in deep waters were 0.028 ƒÊƒÊc/l in the Pacific and 0.035ƒÊƒÊc /l in the northern Japan Sea, and those of Cs...

In this paper, we have analyzed the channel capacity by using the maximal-ratio combing (MRC) diversity scheme for communication systems operating over a composite fading environment modeled by the Generalized-K distribution at the receiver. For the Generalized-K fading channel with arbitrary values for small and large scale fading parameters, we have derived a closed-form expression for the mo...

This paper proposes a statistical steganalysis method for quantization index modulation (QIM) based steganography. We have shown that, in general, plain-quantization (quantization without message embedding) reduces local-randomness (or increases local-correlation) in the resulting quantized-object and QIM-stego exhibits higher level of local-randomness than the corresponding quantized cover. Th...

Small area estimation using linear area level models typically assumes normality of the area level random effects (model errors) and of the survey errors of the direct survey estimates. Outlying observations can be a concern, and can arise from outliers in either the model errors or the survey errors, two possibilities with very different implications. We consider both possibilities here and in...