In this article, to study the effect of pulse-type near-fault earthquakes on the seismic demands of steel moment frames, 15-story 2D-frame was analyzed under the influence of 20 near-fields with forward directivity effect and 2 far-field records. The relationship between Effective Cyclic Energy, ECE and displacement demands, velocity and hysteretic curve of SDOF systems in two near- and far-fau...

Introduction and Approach Writers of stories for both print and screen have a deeply ingrained tendency to construct their stories in ways geared toward experiencing the finished work in a linear fashion. With the exception of some videodisc experiments and a few recent video game applications, stories for the screen are usually written, produced, assembled and viewed in and for the linear form...

Research frameworks are being developed that involve very young children in the process of development of future technologies. Children, their teachers and parents from schools in Israel and Denmark are coming together with researchers, educationalists, psychologists, designers and technologists to develop a wearable technology for educational usethe KidsCam. This example of a hyper-camera will...

lover’s person's life, often the source of the narrators and transmitters. for this reason, love stories in literature people of different have occupied a large space. the stories have many similarities in structure. layla and majnun story is the most famous and most ancient arabic tales has a major influence in the development of persian literature. iranian literary love stories and the s...

The authors investigated the relationship between the acquisition of cultural life scripts and the degree of coherence in children's and adolescents' life stories. Three groups of Danish school children aged 9 to 15 years participated. In 3 sessions, they wrote down a recently experienced single autobiographical event, their life story, and their cultural life script. Single-event and life stor...

How do people make decisions about their preferences? We examine how others’ opinions affect one’s decisions. In Experiment 1, we found that popular online news stories were not inherently interesting, suggesting that something other than the content of the stories was driving people’s liking of the stories. In Experiments 2 and 3, we manipulated information about how previous readers rated the...

Preschool-aged children are exposed to fantasy stories with the expectation that they will learn messages in those stories that are applied to real-world situations. We examined children's transfer from fantastical and real stories. Over the course of 2 studies, 3½- to 5½-year-old children were less likely to transfer problem solutions from stories about fantasy characters than stories about re...