Long-span bridges, as vital structures, play a very important role in economic development. Furthermore, the results of several earthquake-damaged bridges showed that their seismic behavior was different from that predicted under uniform excitation and in some cases the responses were more than predicted results. Therefore, the damaged bridges under non-uniform excitations were re-analyzed and ...

We show that pseudovarieties of finitely generated algebras, i.e., classes C of finitely generated algebras closed under finite products, homomorphic images, and subalgebras, can be described via a uniform structure UC on the free algebra for C: the members of C then are precisely those finitely generated algebras A for which the natural mapping from the free algebra onto the term clone of A is...

We present the definition and a normal form of a class of operators on sets of natural numbers which generalize the enumeration operators.

We construct first examples of infinite groups having property (T) whose Kazhdan constants admit a lower bound independent of the choice of a finite generating set.

Uniform polyhedra consist of regular faces and congruent vertices. Allowing for nonconvex faces and vertex figures, there are 75 such polyhedra, as well as 2 infinite families of prisms and antiprisms. A recently discovered uniform way of computing their vertex coordinates is the basis for our program to display all of these solids, among which are many beautiful and stunning shapes. We will al...