Adding steel braces to reinforced concrete frames is a common way for seismic rehabilitation of these structures. Due to ease of installation and the possibility of creating openings in the braced bays, this method of rehabilitation has been more preferred than using shear walls. In this paper, three experimental specimens including a reinforced concrete frame, a reinforced concrete frame with ...

Vogt M, Hoppeler HH. Eccentric exercise: mechanisms and effects when used as training regime or training adjunct. J Appl Physiol 116: 1446–1454, 2014. First published February 6, 2014; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00146.2013.—The aim of the current review is to discuss applications and mechanism of eccentric exercise in training regimes of competitive sports. Eccentric muscle work is important in m...

The current consensus in exercise physiology is that the repeated bout effect always appears after few eccentric exercise sessions. This is the first attempt to challenge this tenet, by exploiting specificity in muscle plasticity. More specifically, we examined whether the opposing adaptations in muscle induced after concentric and eccentric exercise can attenuate and/or remove the repeated bou...

The encoding process of vector quantization (VQ) is very heavy and it constrains VQ’s application to a great deal. In order to speed up VQ encoding, it is most important to avoid unnecessary Euclidean distance computation (k-D) as much as possible by the difference check first that uses simpler features (low dimensional) while winner searching is going on. Sum (1-D) and partial sums (2-D) are u...

an injective map f : e(g) → {±1, ±2, · · · , ±q} is said to be an edge pair sum labeling of a graph g(p, q) if the induced vertex function f*: v (g) → z − {0} defined by f*(v) = (sigma e∈ev) f (e) is one-one, where ev denotes the set of edges in g that are incident with a vetex v and f*(v (g)) is either of the form {±k1, ±k2, · · · , ±kp/2} or {±k1, ±k2, · · · , ±k(p−1)/2} u {k(p+1)/2} accordin...

This study investigated whether the specific motor control strategy reported for eccentric muscle actions is dependent on muscle mechanical behavior. Motor evoked potentials, Hoffman reflex (H-reflex), fascicle length, pennation angle, and fascicle velocity of soleus muscle were compared between isometric and two eccentric conditions. Ten volunteers performed maximal plantarflexion trials in is...

We compute adiabatic waveforms for extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) by ``stitching'' together a long inspiral waveform from sequence of snapshots, each which corresponds to particular geodesic orbit. show that the complicated total can be regarded as sum ``voices.'' Each voice evolves in simple way on timescales, property exploited efficiently produce models faithfully encode properties EMR...

the reverse degree distance of a connected graph $g$ is defined in discrete mathematical chemistry as [ r (g)=2(n-1)md-sum_{uin v(g)}d_g(u)d_g(u), ] where $n$, $m$ and $d$ are the number of vertices, the number of edges and the diameter of $g$, respectively, $d_g(u)$ is the degree of vertex $u$, $d_g(u)$ is the sum of distance between vertex $u$ and all other vertices of $g$, and $v(g)$ is the ...

The aim of this systematic review was to determine if eccentric exercise is superior to concentric exercise in stimulating gains in muscle strength and mass. Meta-analyses were performed for comparisons between eccentric and concentric training as means to improve muscle strength and mass. In order to determine the importance of different parameters of training, subgroup analyses of intensity o...