Abstract City centres of Europe are often composed unreinforced masonry structural aggregates, whose seismic response is challenging to predict. To advance the state art on these Adjacent Interacting Masonry Structures (AIMS) subproject from Horizon 2020 project Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research Infrastructure Alliance for (SERA) provides shake-table test data a two-unit, double-le...

Coherent Deformable Model Yusuf Sinan Akgul Chandra Kambhamettu Maureen Stone Department of Computer and Information Sciences Division of Otolaryngology University of Delaware The University of Maryland Medical School Newark, Delaware 19716 Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Abstract We present a system that extracts and tracks 2D midsagital tongue surfaces from ultrasound image sequences produced by a ...

The motion of a stone skimming over a water surface is considered. A simplified description of the collisional process of the stone with water is proposed. The maximum number of bounces is estimated by considering both the slowing down of the stone and its angular stability. The conditions for a successful throw are discussed. © 2003 American Association of Physics Teachers. @DOI: 10.1119/1.151...

BACKGROUND Substantial new housing and infrastructure development planned within England has the potential to conflict with the nature conservation interests of protected sites. The Breckland area of eastern England (the Brecks) is designated as a Special Protection Area for a number of bird species, including the stone curlew (for which it holds more than 60% of the UK total population). We ex...

Monolithic structures can be built into graphene by the addition and subsequent re-arrangement of carbon atoms. To this end, ad-dimers of carbon are a particularly attractive building block because a number of emerging technologies offer the promise of precisely placing them on carbon surfaces. In concert with the more common Stone-Thrower-Wales defect, repeating patterns can be introduced to c...

If the absolute number of poor people goes up, but the fraction of people in poverty comes down, has poverty gone up or gone down? The economist’s instinct, framed by population replication axioms that undergird standard measures of poverty, is to say that in this case poverty has gone down. But this goes against the instinct of those who work directly with the poor, for whom the absolute numbe...