Structural vibration monitoring has received a lot of attention from the research community in the past few years. The objective is to create automatic structural assessment techniques that can be realized through programmed vibration analysis. Till now many vibration-based damage features have been proposed, yet to truly automate the damage identification process, reliable damage threshold con...

The claim that recognition memory is spared relative to recall after focal hippocampal damage has been disputed in the literature. We examined this claim by investigating object and object-location recall and recognition memory in a patient, YR, who has adult-onset selective hippocampal damage. Our aim was to identify the conditions under which recognition was spared relative to recall in this ...

one of the significant legal-theological rule, which has drawn little attention in legal texts, is the rule of “not reprimanding a person for another person’s sin and the unaccountability of the person for other people’s action,” which is expressed as part of āya 164 of sūrat al-an‘ām, ﴾no bearer shall bear another's burden﴿. according to this rule, which includes both matters of this world and...

Title of Document: A NON-LINEAR DAMAGE MODEL WITH LOAD DEPENDENT EXPONENTS FOR SOLDERS UNDER SEQUENTIAL CYCLIC SHEAR LOADS Elviz George, Ph.D., 2015 Directed By: Professor Michael G. Pecht, Department of Mechanical Engineering The damage state of a material subject to cyclic loads is often characterized by the cycle ratio of applied cycles to the number of survivable cycles. The damage in a mat...

Introduction: Today, the spread of the use of ionizing radiation and its vital role in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases has been identified. Therefore, protecting pregnant women from ionizing radiation is essential and is considered as the standard criterion for Medical Radiation center. The aim of this study was to investigate the observance of protective principles and...

A model of costly medical malpractice claims, based on Bayes Rule, is developed to examine the effects of physicians being liable for actual damage under a negligence rule. This model is consistent with empirical evidence concerning the pattern of claims. It is shown that compensating actual damage does not provide physicians with appropriate incentives to spend the second best optimal amount o...

Assessing seismic hazards involves specifying the likelihood, magnitude and location of earthquakes in a region. Predicting the seismic hazards is the first step in reducing the impact of the damage caused by an earthquake.  In this study, to fully utilize all the known parameters which may possibly affect the occurrence of earthquakes (mb ≥ 4.5); a data-driven rule-extraction method called the...