Direct displacement-based design is a nonlinear static procedure and has to check the suitability of method against different types ground motions namely far field, near field forward directivity fling step. The applied for buildings supported on fixed base hysteretic isolation bearings. Seismic isolators are provided between foundation superstructure minimize influence motion superstructure. f...

• The notion of authority is common in the literature on parent-child relationships. However, the notion of ‘parental authority’ remains largely unspecified. The present article first critically reviews conceptualisations of parental authority in selected developmental-psychological approaches. We find the absence of an explicit and integrated theoretical and empirical conceptualisation of pare...

This study examines the relationships between parental assets with their expectations and involvement of children’s education, and children’s educational performance measured 2 years later. Through the analysis of the mother–child data set of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), results indicate that after controlling for family income and other parent characteristics, parental a...

Because we have only considered situations in which the main care received by a child, other than parental care, is provided by grandparents (a scenario which ignores other situations where grandparents may act as an essential background support), the results suggest that grandparental care does indeed play an important role in determining the probability of women working in our chosen set of c...

Identification of structural models from measured earthquake response can play a key role in structural health monitoring, structural control and improving performance-based design. System identification using data from strong seismic shaking is complicated by the nonlinear hysteretic response of structures where the restoring forces depend on the previous time history of the structural respons...

Hysteretic enzymes are defined as those enzymes which respond slowly (in terms of some kinetic characteristic) to a rapid change in ligand, either substrate or modifier, concentration. Such slow changes, defined in terms of their rate relative to the over-all catalytic reaction, result in a lag in the response of the enzyme to changes in the ligaml level. Several mechanisms, including ligand-in...

The sporulation process of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis unfolds by means of separate but co-ordinated programmes of gene expression within two unequal cell compartments, the mother cell and the smaller forespore. sigmaF is the first compartment-specific transcription factor activated during this process, and it is controlled at the post-translational level by a partner-switching mechanism th...

Analysis of different architectures of quorum sensing networks has been the center of attention in recent times. The approach employs mathematical models to uncover the factors behind the dynamics. Quorum sensing networks mostly display autoregulation such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio cholerae. However, Escherichia coli autoinducer-2 (AI-2) synthesis does not display autoinduction (i.e....