In the present study, ten steel-moment resisting frames (SMRFs) having different numbers of stories ranging from 3 to 20 stories and fundamental periods of vibration ranging from 0.3 to 3.0 second were optimized subjected to a set of earthquake ground motions using the concept of uniform damage distribution along the height of the structures. Based on the step-by-step optimization algorithm dev...

Several software reliability growth models have been presented in the literature in the last three decades. They have been developed for uniform and non-uniform operational profile. Some of them are flexible whereas others are not. Model selection becomes an uphill task. Of late, some authors have tried to develop a unifying approach so as to capture different growth curves, thus easing the mod...

Incompleteness is a major feature of time-to-event data. As one type of incompleteness, truncation refers to the unobservability of the time-to-event variable because it is smaller (or greater) than the truncation variable. A truncated sample always involves left and right truncation. Left truncation has been studied extensively while right truncation has not received the same level of attentio...

The Hilbert-Huang transform is applied to analyze single-particle Lagrangian velocity data from numerical simulations of hydrodynamic turbulence. The velocity trajectory is described in terms of a set of intrinsic mode functions C(i)(t) and of their instantaneous frequency ω(i)(t). On the basis of this decomposition we define the ω-conditioned statistical moments of the C(i) modes, named q-orde...

We present here a detailed time-dependent density-functional theory investigation aimed at systematically dissecting the electronic spectra of two thiolate and phosphine protected undecagold nanoclusters. Calculations performed on the experimental structures of Au11(PPh3)7Cl3 and Au11(PPh3)7(SPyr)3 show that ligands have negligible contributions in the visible region. Metal → ligand charge tran...

Setting up a system for first order results is straightforward. One can easily identify the major constituents in simple samples and obtain approximate concentrations. This is sufficient for some applications. However, second order effects are quite important for many applications. To obtain high accuracy, identify constituents with low concentrations, or operate on a wide variety of samples, s...

The prototropic exchange equilibria of two drugs, nizatidine (I) and ranitidine(II), and also of structurally related the N,N'-dimethyl-2-nitro-1,1-ethenediamine molecule (III) were investigated. From the changes in electronic spectra in media of various acidity several protonation constants were determined. For pK values were -0.82, 1.95, and 6.67; for ranitidine pK values were 1.95 and 8.13; ...

In this work we present experimental and calculated two-dimensional electronic spectra for a 5,15-bisalkynyl porphyrin chromophore. The lowest energy electronic Qy transition couples mainly to a single 380 cm(-1) vibrational mode. The two-dimensional electronic spectra reveal diagonal and cross peaks which oscillate as a function of population time. We analyze both the amplitude and phase distr...

Parametric and semiparametric methods often fail to capture the right shape of the conditional hazard rate in survival analysis. In this paper we propose a new and intuitive nonparametric estimator for the conditional hazard rate, based on local linear estimation techniques. This estimator can deal with both censored and uncensored data. We show that the local linear hazard rate estimator is co...

This paper analyzes a model of moral hazard in portfolio management. Managers wish to earn the higher fees associated with active management but are averse to the effort of identifying superior trading strategies through research. Previous research has focused on contracts which offer explicit incentives. In this paper I address optimal contracting between an investor and a portfolio manager wh...