In this study, constant-ductility optimization algorithm under a family of earthquake ground motions is utilized to achieve uniform damage distribution over the height of steel moment resisting frames (SMRFs). SMRF structures with stiffness-degrading hysteric behavior are modeled as single-bay generic frame in which the plastic hinge is confined only at the beam ends and the bottom of the first...

Story memory tests are commonly used in clinical neuropsychology. Surprisingly, no guidelines are provided for speed of presentation for two of the most commonly used story memory tests in clinical neuropsychology. The current investigation was designed to explore whether speed of presentation influences recall on the Story subtest from the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test. Consistent with pre...

short story is built on a single story that have a single impact and it is a short detail of human life.the length of the short story and the time to read does not take from the listener and the reader but a short time. and that is one of the updated arts that have emerged in the modern era and arabs did not know this kind of story in past ages and it has no roots in the heritage of storytellin...

An interactive narrative is a story that is shaped by digital technology and that allows the dynamic presentation of scenes or sequences based on input from the user. In this paper we present a new foundation for interactive storytelling that allows a mobile user to interact with a story. The user is placed at the center of the story and the story comes to the user in transit. The behavior and ...

In this paper, the author is concerned with “stories” society makes about “the machine”. A story that holds consensual elements is of great interest if one accepts the premise that story in itself has a strong influence on what we seek to create. Given that many popular stories present nightmare scenarios, a self-fulfilling prophesy would not want to be created. The psychodramatic method was us...

quintet novel “cities of salt” is considered as a turning point in arabic story-writing literature. in this novel under the influence by story- writing modern stream, munif (1933-2004) has tried to create neology and innovation in some story artistic elements by being committed to some of arab story- writing principles. he tries in this novel to follow russian structuralists, particularly mikha...

We construct a large scale of causal knowledge in term of Fabula elements by extracting causal links from existing common sense ontology ConceptNet5. We design a Constrained Monte Carlo Tree Search (cMCTS) algorithm that allows users to specify positive and negative concepts to appear in the generated stories. cMCTS can find a believable causal story plot. We show the merits by experiments and ...