In the present paper, nonlinear behavior of mass concrete simulated by smeared crack model is combined with Endurance Time Analysis (ETA) method for studying seismic response of arch dams. ETA is a time-history based dynamic pushover procedure in which special predesigned intensifying acceleration functions are used for analysis and estimation of structural responses in various performance leve...

background: to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis on controlled treatment trials of meta-cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders. materials and methods: studies were included if they employed controlled methodology and treated people above 18 years with anxiety disorders. case studies (with less than 4 cases) and single case designed studies were excluded. a comprehensive literature ...

It was recently observed in [1], that in index coding, learning the coding matrix used by the server can pose privacy concerns: curious clients can extract information about the requests and side information of other clients. One approach to mitigate such concerns is the use of k-limited-access schemes [1], that restrict each client to learn only part of the index coding matrix, and in particul...

Research on Scottish English /r/ mainly focused on the urban centres of Glasgow and Edinburgh, while the phonetic variation of this sound remains largely unknown in other cities. This paper aims at providing new data to characterize Standard Scottish English and one of its prominent feaures by analyzing the variation of both prevocalic and non-prevocalic /r/ in Dundee. Though age and gender hav...