A number of studies have been conducted on structural health monitoring for buildings and civil engineering structures in recent years (Spencer et al. 2002, Spencer 2003, Dyke et al. 2000, Fujino & Abe 2002, Iwan 2002, Mita & Takahira 2002). In addition, the interest in sensing technology for various uses has been growing, and new kinds of sensors have been developed by micro electro mechanical...

where Y is the observed data, θ is the vector of the model parameters, p(Y |θ) is the likelihood function for the parameters and p(θ|M) is the prior distribution of the parameters under the model M . We use a logistic regression likelihood and treat the case-control status as the data Y . The parameters θ include the intercept, coe cients of any covariates and the allelic SNP e ect β, all measu...

Given a sequence {αn} in (0, 1) converging to a rational, we examine the model theoretic properties of structures obtained as limits of ShelahSpencer graphs G(m,m−αn ). We show that in most cases the model theory is either extremely well-behaved or extremely wild, and characterize when each

Here A is the Laplacian (continuous or on lattice) and V(x,w) is the random homogeneous field (or process) on a probability space (Q,F,P). The central achievement of one-dimensional theory was a series of S. Kotani's articles [l]-[3], where he discovered deep connections between Ljapunov's exponents y(X), the structure of the prediction of the potential V(-) and the spectral localization of H. ...

Temporal ordering of events is biased, or influenced, by perceptual organization-figure-ground organization-and by spatial attention. For example, within a region assigned figural status or at an attended location, onset events are processed earlier (Lester, Hecht, & Vecera, 2009; Shore, Spence, & Klein, 2001), and offset events are processed for longer durations (Hecht & Vecera, 2011; Rolke, U...