The paper presents a plastic analysis procedure based on the energy balance concept for performance based seismic retrofit of multi-story multi-bay masonry infilled reinforced concrete (R/C) frames with a ‘soft’ ground story using passive energy dissipation (PED) devices with the objective of achieving a target performance level of the retrofitted R/C frame for a given seismic hazard level at t...

C. Rontescu, T. D. Cicic, C. G. Amza, O. Chivu, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. D. Dobrotă, Engineering Faculty, University “Constantin Brâncuşi” of Târgu-Jiu, România This paper presents the results obtained following the Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations on a bike frame made of 3 different materials, Al6061, Carbon Fiber and Ti6Al4V, in order to identify the optimum materi...

This paper 1 presents an algorithm for segmenting and tracking moving objects in a scene. Temporal information provided by a region tracking strategy is integrated for improving frame to frame motion segmentation. The method has been applied to a tra c monitoring system and it provides facilities such as estimating trajectories of vehicles, detecting stopped vehicles and estimating the mean vel...

for radiation by the source in the (inertial) lab frame where the system has velocity v along the polar (z, z ) axes of the spherical coordinate systems (r, θ, φ) and (r , θ , φ ), β = v/c and γ = 1/ √ 1− β, with c being the speed of light in vacuum. Comment on the angular distribution of radiation as detected by distant, fixed observers in the lab frame. Comment also on the case of acoustic ra...

This paper explores models for arithmetics in substructural logics. In the existing literature on substructural arithmetic, frame semantics for substructural logics are absent. We will start to fill in the picture in this paper by examining frame semantics for the substructural logics C (linear logic plus distribution), R (relevant logic) and CK (C plus weakening). The eventual goal is to find ...

MAC level efficiency constraints of the RFID Reader-Tag communication require proper frame size selection in order to achieve maximum throughput. To set optimal frame size, one needs to estimate the number of tags. Deriving optimal frame size results in reducing time for identification of large RFID tag populations, and thus increases throughput of RFID system. In accordance with the standard D...

We describe proposed enhancements to the ATM Unspeci ed Bit Rate (UBR) service that guarantee a minimum rate at the frame level to the UBR VCs. These enhancements have been called Guaranteed Frame Rate (GFR). In this paper, we discuss the motivation, design and implementation issues for GFR. We present the design of bu er management and policing mechanisms to implement GFR. We study the e ects ...

Abstract Over one-fifth of disease-causing mutations in junctional epidermolysis bullosa (JEB) are splice site variants. These affect pre-mRNA splicing through the activation cryptic sites and/or exon skipping, resulting altered mRNA and translated proteins. Prediction precise location activated is vital, as these can potentially alter reading frame transcript. Out-of-frame transcripts contain ...

Adenoviruses containing lethal in-frame insertion mutant alleles of the preterminal protein (pTP) gene were constructed with cell lines that express pTP. Thirty in-frame insertion mutant alleles, including 26 alleles previously characterized as lethal and 4 newly constructed mutant alleles, were introduced into the viral chromosome in place of the wild-type pTP gene. The viruses were tested for...