Response estimation at unmeasured locations using the limited number of measurements is an attractive topic in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM). Because of increasing complexity and size of civil engineering structures, measuring all structural responses from the entire body is intractable for the SHM purpose; the response estimation can be an effective and practical alternative....

Transparent transmission control protocol (TCP) acceleration is a technique to increase TCP throughput without requiring any changes in end-system TCP implementations. By intercepting and relaying TCP connections inside the network, long end-to-end feedback control loops can be broken into several smaller control loops. This decrease in feedback delay allows accelerated TCP flows to react more ...

In [1] Amdeberhan and Zeilberger have given a general method, based on WZ theory, for finding rapidly converging series for universal constants. We give another, somewhat different method here. In the form that we shall give to the method, the summand will satisfy a first order homogeneous recurrence but the sum will satisfy a first order inhomogeneous recurrence. What we obtain are remarkable ...

Series acceleration formulas are obtained for Dirichlet series with periodic coefficients. Special cases include Ramanujan’s formula for the values of the Riemann zeta function at the odd positive integers exceeding two, and related formulas for values of Dirichlet L-series and the Lerch zeta function.

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