Results of an experimental investigation of the seismic performance of prefabricated column-footing connections are presented. Tests were conducted on six 1/4-scale prefabricated column specimens inserted into prefabricated footings in two Groups. Group-1 consisted of four specimens, which were tested under constant axial load and cyclic inelastic lateral displacements. The remaining two specim...

As communication limitations become the dominant factor in designing products, devices connected by networks will become common. Most companies will not want to design their own interconnection fabric but will, instead, opt to buy an off the shelf interconnect system. Thus, vendors will offer “commodity” interconnects that are easy to integrate into other products and have good performance over...

An important question when eliciting opinions from experts is how to aggregate the reported opinions. In this paper, we propose a pooling method to aggregate expert opinions. Intuitively, it works as if the experts were continuously updating their opinions in order to accommodate the expertise of others. Each updated opinion takes the form of a linear opinion pool, where the weight that an expe...

We present a novel vector ridge detector which is designed to automaticaly find the right scale of a ridge even in the presence of noise, multiple steps and narrow valleys. One of the key features of such ridge detector is that it has a zero response at discontinuities. The ridge detector can be applied both to scalar and vector quantities such as color. We also present a parallel perceptual or...

Distance learning involves a lot of work of human assistants. These assistants need to be connected for answering student doubts and questions. Intelligent agents can do part of this work. However a problem appears with this promised possibility: how to connect educational applications with these agents. This paper presents a solution to this problem, in which both the capture of student’s inte...

Models of electrical interconnects, including inductance and skin effect, are reviewed. The models are used for estimating the performance of electrical interconnects, particularly related to delays, data rates, and power consumption for off-chip and on-chip interconnects and for clock distribution. It is demonstrated that correctly utilized, electrical interconnects do not severely limit chip ...

Ferroan anorthosite VHK basalt Oldest basalt APOLLO 14 OLDEST MARE BASALT REVISITED: POSSIBLE PETROGENETIC CONNECTION BETWEEN MG GABBRONORITE AND VHK BASALT. T. Arai, H. Takeda, M. Miyamoto, and H. Kojima, Antarctic Meteorite Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research, 1-9-10 Kaga Itabashi Tokyo 173-8515, Japan, tomoko@nipr.ac.jp, Research Institute, Chiba Institute of Technology, Ts...

Someday, perhaps soon, we will build a machine that will be able to perform the functions of a human mind, a thinking machine. One of the many problems that must be faced in designing such a machine is the need to process large amounts of information rapidly, more rapidly than is ever likely to be possible with a conventional computer. This document describes a new type of computing engine call...