The importance of the equipment and secondary systems in seismic design and performance evaluation is well recognized and has been the subject of many studies. In all of these studies, earthquake is considered as a single component, and in most of them the primary system is considered as shear building. Most attention has been concentrated on the response of secondary system and its response sp...

A two-stage study aimed to identify the effects of the critical pathway recording methodology on clinical coding practice and to determine coders' participation in pathway development. Critical pathways were found to be in widespread use, with low coder participation in pathway development and poor education on pathway data extraction. Coders favoured the traditional medical record format; priv...

The importance of the equipment and secondary systems in seismic design and performance evaluation is well recognized and has been the subject of many studies. In all of these studies, earthquake is considered as a single component, and in most of them the primary system is considered as shear building. Most attention has been concentrated on the response of secondary system and its response sp...

The paper describes formant based speaker normalization method suitable for speech visualization and articulation training systems. The method estimates the error function obtained from speaker formant characteristics for a given vowel. Estimated error function gives information for critical band filter shifting on mel-warped frequency scale. The paper also describes accurate technique for form...

To evaluate and predict component-based software security, a two-dimensional model of software security is proposed by Stochastic Petri Net in this paper. In this approach, the software security is modeled by graphical presentation ability of Petri nets, and the quantitative prediction is provided by the evaluation capability of Stochastic Petri Net and the computing power of Markov chain. Each...

the analysis of cross-correlations is extensively applied for understanding of interconnections in stock markets. variety of methods are used in order to search stock cross-correlations including the random matrix theory (rmt), the principal component analysis (pca) and the hierachical ‎structures.‎ in ‎this work‎, we analyze cross-crrelations between price fluctuations of 20 ‎company ‎stocks‎‎...

this paper examines edward said’s views on music and its connection with key concepts such as orientalism and worldliness in his writings. it is suggested that to see the importance of classical western music as a key component of western culture in said’s work, one has to take into account the centrality of culture in his critical views and the stress he puts on its complicity with western imp...