As part of research collaboration between MCEER and the National Center for Research in Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) in Taiwan, a team of MCEER/NCREE researchers undertook a reconnaissance mission shortly after the 921 Chi-Chi earthquake occurred in Taiwan at 1:47 a.m. on September 21, 1999. A major objective of this mission was to assess earthquake-induced damage, to document lessons learned...

Chi sites in bacteriophage lambda stimulate recombination promoted by the RecBC pathway of Escherichia coli. Mutations which create these sites occur at four widely separated loci in lambda. We report here the nucleotide sequence surrounding the site of one of these loci, chi D, located near the S gene. The mutations creating the active Chi site, designated chi +D, are transversions from CG to ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the degree of insight into illness is associated with long-term inpatient treatment outcome in chronic schizophrenia. Inpatients diagnosed with schizophrenia were evaluated using the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) scale and the Functional Skills Rating Form (FSRF) at baseline and at follow-up evaluation 1 year after treatment. The Sca...

The information inequality has been shown to be an effective tool for providing lower bounds for the minimax risk. Bounds based on the chisquare distance can sometimes offer a considerable improvement especially when applied iteratively. This paper compares these two methods in four examples including the bounded normal mean problem as well as obervations from a Poisson distribution.