Near-fault ground motions have caused very much damage in the vicinity of seismic sources during recent earthquakes. It is well known that under specific circumstances, intensive ground shakings near fault ruptures may be characterized by short-duration impulsive motions. This pulse-type motion is generally particular to the forward direction, where the fault rupture propagates towards the site...

− The deep-inelastic deuteron structure function (SF) F 2 (xD, Q) in the covariant approach in light-cone variables is considered. The xD and Q -dependences of SF are calculated. The QCD analysis of generated data both for non-cumulative xD < 1 and cumulative xD > 1 ranges was performed. It was shown that Q -evolution of SF is valid for ranges 0.275 < xD < 0.85 and 1.1 < xD < 1.4 for the same v...

Introduction: Minocycline is a derivative of tetracycline that has anti-inflammatory, antiappoptic, antioxidant and neuroprotective effects. Since there is a relationship between cell death and seizure, the aim of this study was to examine the role of minocycline in development of amygdala kindling in Wistar rats. Methods: In this study, 21 rats were divided into three groups. After sterotax...

Abstract Benchmarking incentivizes fund managers to invest a fraction of their funds’ assets in benchmark indexes, and such demand is inelastic. We construct measure inelastic stock attracts, benchmarking intensity (BMI), computed as its cumulative weight all benchmarks, weighted by following each benchmark. Exploiting the Russell 1000/2000 cutoff, we show that changes stocks’ BMIs instrument f...

This study’s Part I proved that ground-motion duration could play an important role when assessing the nonlinear structural performance of case-study inelastic single degree-of-freedom systems. However, quantifying effects in many practical/more realistic engineering applications is not trivial, given difficulties decoupling from other characteristics. II, introduced this article, explores impa...

The inelastic hard sphere model of granular material is simple, easily accessible to theory and simulation , and captures much of the physics of granular media. It has three drawbacks, all related to the approximation that collisions are instantaneous: 1) The number of collisions per unit time can diverge, i.e. the \inelastic collapse" can occur. 2) All interactions are binary, multiparticle co...

Network growth can be framed as a competition for edges among nodes in the network. As with various other social and physical systems, skill (fitness) and luck (random chance) act as fundamental forces driving competition dynamics. In the context of networks, cumulative advantage (CA) – the rich-get-richer effect – is seen as a driving principle governing the edge accumulation process. However,...