in this paper, an advanced formulation of the spectral finite element method (sfem) is presented and applied in order to carry out site response analysis of 2d topographic structures subjected to vertically propagating incident in-plane waves in time-domain. the accuracy, efficiency and applicability of the formulation are demonstrated by solving some wave scattering examples. a numerical param...

meiotic study was performed in 11 brassica napus cultivars considering chiasma frequency anddistribution, chromosome pairing, as well as the occurrence of b-chromosomes and their effects on chiasmafrequency. such cytogenetic pairing, along with agronomic characteristics, may be used in planninghybridization among the b. napus cultivars. all the cultivars studied possessed n=19 chromosome number...

tea (camellia sinensis) is one of the most economically important crops and is considered tobe the national drink of iran. although there has been an intensive cytogenetic study of tea in differentregions of the world, there has been no report from iran. therefore, the present investigation was carriedout in order to present the basic cytogenetical features of various tea cultivators grown in t...

In this paper the approximation of a complex-valued speci cation by the frequency response of a 2-D IIR separable-denominator (SD) digital lter is considered. The approximation problem is transformed into an equivalent one, where a real-valued 2-D IIR SD digital lter with some additional characteristics has to be determined that approximates a given real-valued 2-D FIR digital lter. A theorem i...

The phase-response curve (PRC) is an important tool to determine the excitability type of single neurons which reveals consequences for their synchronizing properties. We review five methods to compute the PRC from both model data and experimental data and compare the numerically obtained results from each method. The main difference between the methods lies in the reliability which is influenc...