This paper presents a suitable and quick way to choose earthquake records in non-linear dynamic analysis using optimization methods. In addition, these earthquake records are scaled. Therefore, structural responses of three different soil-frame models were examined, the change in maximum displacement of roof was analyzed and the damage index of whole structures was measured. The soil classifica...

conclusions diagnosing type d personality and knowing about the effect of these perceptions can help physician to identify patients with prone personality and prevent them from the disease by changing their lifestyle. results ninety-nine chd patients, with the mean age of 59.7 years (age range, 20 - 86) were studied and 58.8% of them were males. cronbach’s alpha for quality of life and type d p...

in treating the subject of musical language, a persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the persian music and language. indeed persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” consist...

ISSN: 1070-5511 (Print) 1532-8007 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hsem20 Dynamic Structural Equation Models Tihomir Asparouhov, Ellen L. Hamaker & Bengt Muthén To cite this article: Tihomir Asparouhov, Ellen L. Hamaker & Bengt Muthén (2017): Dynamic Structural Equation Models, Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal To link to this article: https://do...

Complexity of a model of conditional independence structure is introduced as the least cardinality of a generating set. Four basic types of complexity are distinguished which depend on the type of generating. A method of calculation of complexity of a given conditional independence model is proposed. The method is based on a more eeective way of representation of the model by means of a list of...

1 Trend and Cycle Decomposition y t = t + t where y t is an n 1 vector and t and t represent trend and cycle components respectively. This decomposition into components is not unique. Beveridge and Nelson (1981) and Stock and Watson (1988) derive the following decomposition: y t = C(L)" t = C(1)" t + (1 L)C (L)" t Integrating up gives: y t = C(1) 1 X i=0 " ti | {z } + C (L)" t | {z } trend cycl...

We present a new class of density estimation models, Structural Maxent models, with feature functions selected from a union of possibly very complex sub-families and yet benefiting from strong learning guarantees. The design of our models is based on a new principle supported by uniform convergence bounds and taking into consideration the complexity of the different sub-families composing the f...

The economic idea behind the model is that the tails of the Gaussian distribution are too thin to model the credit market accurately. Although the Gaussian distribution is widely used in other asset classes, it is rarely suitable for extreme out-of-the-money options. But almost all credit default events are extreme events which are controlled by the tail of the distribution. For this reason we ...

Received for publication, September 25, 2009, and in revised form, October 21, 2009 Published, JBC Papers in Press, November 4, 2009, DOI 10.1074/jbc.C109.070425 Beth M. Stadtmueller, Katherine Ferrell, Frank G. Whitby, Annie Heroux, Howard Robinson, David G. Myszka, and Christopher P. Hill From the Department of Biochemistry, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 an...