The present study evaluates how the soft first story irregularity condition should be defined: (a) as a significant reduction of the lateral shear stiffness of all resisting frames within a given story, as established in the seismic provisions of Mexican building codes or, (b) as a substantial reduction of the lateral shear stiffness of one or more resisting frames within a given story, as prop...

SoFT is a new method and tool which measures and models linear electrical network components in a wide frequency band with unprecedented accuracy. This is achieved by a special modal based measurement technique in combination with suitable rational fitting and passivity enforcement methods. The models are easily imported into most commonly used simulation software. This paper demonstrates the S...

Most of the biometric research being done is for adults and the identification accuracy of new born are least reported in the literatures. In this paper we propose a novel biometric identification method for new born babies using their face and soft biometrics. Accurate patient identification (ID) is essential for patient safety, especially with our smallest and most vulnerable podiatric patien...

tick-borne diseases like tick-borne relapsing fever are a public health problem in iran. its occurrence is more prevalent in north part of country. in order to determine the distribution of soft ticks, argasidae, and their infection with borrelia species in hamadan province, 53 villages were selected randomly. a total of 4805 ticks were collected directly from human dwellings, poultries, and an...

PURPOSE To compare the efficacy of 2.5% sodium hyaluronate (BD Multivisc) with the soft shell technique in reducing corneal endothelial cell damage during cataract phacoemulsification in patients with hard lens nucleus (3+) and cornea guttata. METHODS Thirty patients (37 eyes) scheduled for cataract surgery at Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University Hospital San Raffaele, ...

OBJECTIVE Failure of soft liners depends mostly on separation from the denture base resin; therefore measurement of the bond strength is very important. The purpose of this study was to compare the tensile bond strength of two soft liners (Acropars, Molloplast-B) to denture base resin before and after thermocycling. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty specimens fromeach of the two different soft lin...

We study the effects of SO(10) D-terms on the allowed parameter space ( APS ) in models with t− b− τ and b− τ Yukawa unifiction. The former is allowed only for moderate values of the D-term, if very precise ( ≤ 5% ) unification is required. Next we constrain the parameter space by looking for different dangerous directions where the scalar potential may be unbounded from below ( UFB1 and UFB3 )...

in this paper, we present the concepts of a fuzzy soft left (right) ideal and fuzzy soft interior ideal over an ordered semigroup s . some basic results of fuzzy soft left (right) ideals and fuzzy soft interior ideals are investigated and the supported examples are provided. different classes, regular, intra-regular, and simple ordered semigroups are   characterized by means of fuzzy sof...