this paper evaluates the welfare effects of price changes in the main commodity groups in iran. using the iranian urban households’ data issued by the iranian statistics center over the period 1994-2007 we estimate the subsistence level. in addition, using the results from the linear expenditure system we calculate the price and income elasticities along with the compensation and equivalent var...

the current building codes provide limited prescriptive guidance on design for protection of buildings due to progressive collapse. progressive collapse is a situation in which a localized failure in a structure, caused by an abnormal load, such as explosions or other happenings. three procedures, often employed for determination of the structural response during progressive collapse i.e. linea...

Linear bilevel programming is a decision making problem with a two-level decentralized organization. The leader is in the upper level and the follower, in the lower level. This study addresses linear bilevel multi-objective multi-follower programming (LB-MOMFP) problem, a special case of linear bilevel programming problems with one leader and multiple followers where each decision maker has sev...

the interactive effects of adjacent buildings on their seismic performance are not frequently considered in seismic design. the adjacent buildings, however, are interrelated through the soil during seismic ground motions. the seismic energy is redistributed in the neighboring buildings through multiple structure-soil-structure interactions (sssi). for example, in an area congested with many nea...

Performance analysis of a linear permanent magnet Vernier machine (LPMVM), which has complex structure, is mostly based on the finite element methods, while for its optimisation or sensitivity quick mathematical technique desirable. This paper introduces an LPMVM and principles operation. Then, mixed subdomain magnetic equivalent circuit are applied to extract field equations in various parts m...

The nondimensional groups which characterize dynamically equivalent single exible link (SFL) ma-nipulators are determined using the Buckingham Pi method of dimensional analysis. Scaling laws for continuous-time and discrete-time linear rational controllers are developed for dynamically equivalent SFL systems. These theoretical scaling laws are veriied experimentally for a discrete PD control law.

In this paper we consider the linear symmetric cone programming (SCP). At a KarushKuhn-Tucker (KKT) point of SCP, we present the important equivalent conditions for the nonsingularity of Clarke’s generalized Jacobian of the KKT nonsmooth system, such as primal and dual constraint nondegeneracy, the strong regularity, and the nonsingularity of the B-subdifferential of the KKT system. This affirm...

We present cryptanalytic results of an exhaustive search of all 16! bijective 4-bit S-Boxes. Previously affine equivalence classes have been exhaustively analyzed in 2007 work by Leander and Poschmann. We extend on this work by giving further properties of the optimal S-Box linear equivalence classes. In our main analysis we consider two S-Boxes to be cryptanalytically equivalent if they are is...