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Identification of Site Frequencies from Building Records

A simple procedure to identify site frequencies using earthquake response records from roofs and basements of buildings is presented. For this purpose, data from five different buildings are analyzed using only spectral analyses techniques. Additional data such as free-field records in close proximity to the buildings and site characterization data are also used to estimate site frequencies and...

N-site: a Distributed Consensus Building and Negotiation Support System

This paper presents N-Site, a distributed consensus building and negotiation support system, which is used to provide geographically dispersed teams with agile access to a Web-based group decision support system. Four teams located in France, Mexico, the Ukraine, and the United States participated in the N-Site project. Each team was required to research the problem using the World Wide Web (WW...

An internet based architecture satisfying the distributed building site metaphor

Virtual reality offers new possibilities of cooperation for the concept phase of a product development. The deployment of a cooperative system suffers mainly from the client-server approach that is inefficient in many ways and attributes a leading role to a server site. Moreover, requiring a specific quality from the under-laying communication restricts openness and usability of the solution. A...

Building a Culturally-Competent Web Site: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Web Site Structure

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Building a Catalytic Active Site Using Only RNA