This paper provides a methodology to quantify the interrelationship between the seismic intensity parameters and the structural damage. First, a computer-supported elaboration of the accelerograms provides several peak, spectral and energy seismic parameters. After that, nonlinear dynamic analyses are carried out to provide the structural response for a set of seismic excitations. Among the sev...

In holometabolous development, higher insects pass through two stages, the larva and the imago. Both larval and imaginal cells are derived from the cells of the blastoderm stage. After the final embryonic wave of mitosis, however, only the imaginal cells remain diploid and capable of division, proliferate massively and do not differentiate. The development of the imaginal discs in Dacus tryoni ...