a new type of infilled frame has been recently proposed. it has a frictional sliding fuse, horizontally installed at the mid-height of the infill. it has already shown that such infilled frames have higher ductility, strength and damping ratio as well as more enhanced hysteresis cycles, compared with regular infilled frames. this experimental paper is focused on the influence of gravitational l...

Doctor of Philosophy Mechanical load is believed to play a critical role in tissue formation, growth, maintenance, and disease in vertebrate animals. Although many studies have investigated the effect of mechanical stimuli on biological processes, the dynamics of these processes have not been closely explored. Live long-term observation of the collective behavior of Primary Human Corneal Fibrob...

closed kinematic chains and 1 2 ) as a force constrainad mechanical system working on the samo object simultaneously. based on a feedback linearization and simultaneous output docoupling technique. Applying a nonli ear faodback and a nonlinear coordinate transformation, the complicated model of the multiple robot arms in either formulation is converted into a linear and output decoupled system....

BACKGROUND To evaluate the effects of HIV viral load, measured cross-sectionally and cumulatively, on the risk of miscarriage or stillbirth (pregnancy loss) among HIV-infected women enrolled in the Women's Interagency HIV Study between 1994 and 2013. METHODS We assessed three exposures: most recent viral load measure before the pregnancy ended, log10 copy-years viremia from initiation of anti...

Virtualization technology reduces cloud operational cost by increasing cloud resource utilization level. The incorporation of virtualization within cloud data centers can severely degrade cloud performance if not properly managed. Virtual machine (VM) migration is a method that assists cloud service providers to efficiently manage cloud resources while eliminating the need of human supervision....

Rhesus monkeys were immunized by multiple inoculations with purified, disrupted, noninfectious simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) in adjuvant. Immunized monkeys developed anti-SIV antibodies detectable by whole-virus ELISA and by immunoblot reactivity; these antibodies had weak neutralizing activity. One week after the last immunization, monkeys were challenged with 200-1000 animal infectious ...

Time is a central notion in synthesis engines, and manipulating time is an important part of structuring an instrument, a sound or a performance. We discuss how time can be treated in a flexible-rate and multi-rate dataflow engine that does not operate on a preferred rate. We describe how rates can be locally controlled, now interweaving rates can be managed. A multi-rate pipeline has benefits ...

NUMA-aware parallel algorithms in runtime systems attempt to improve locality by allocating memory from local NUMA nodes. Researchers have suggested that the garbage collector should profile memory access patterns or use object locality heuristics to determine the target NUMA node before moving an object. However, these solutions are costly when applied to every live object in the reference gra...