This paper presents a new model updating approach for structural damage localization and quantification. Based on the Modal Assurance Criterion (MAC), a new damage-sensitive cost function is introduced by employing the main diagonal and anti-diagonal members of the calculated Generalized Flexibility Matrix (GFM) for the monitored structure and its analytical model. Then, ...

Recognition of DNA by proteins relies on direct interactions with specific DNA-functional groups, along with indirect effects that reflect variable energetics in the response of DNA sequences to twisting and bending distortions induced by proteins. Predicting indirect readout requires knowledge of the variations in DNA curvature and flexibility in the affected region, which we have determined f...

A simple adjustment to parametric failure-time distributions, which allows for much greater flexibility in the shape of the hazard-rate function, is considered. Analytical expressions for the distributions of the power-law adjusted Weibull, gamma, log-gamma, generalized gamma, lognormal and Pareto distributions are given. Most of these allow for bathtub shaped and other multi-modal forms of the...

in this paper, the time-like hyperruled surfaces in the minkowski 4-space and their algebraicinvariants are worked. also some characteristic results are found about these algebraic invariants.

A simple adjustment to parametric failure-time distributions, which allows for much greater flexibility in the shape of the hazard-rate function, is considered. Closed-form expressions for the distributions of the power-law adjusted Weibull, gamma, log-gamma, generalized gamma, lognormal and Pareto distributions are given. Most of these allow for bathtub shaped and other multi-modal forms of th...

We recognize, understand, and interact with objects through both vision and touch. Conceivably, these two sensory systems encode object shape in similar ways, which could facilitate cross-modal communication. To test this idea, we studied single neurons in macaque monkey intermediate visual (area V4) and somatosensory (area SII) cortex, using matched shape stimuli. We found similar patterns of ...

This paper addresses changes of spatial granularity in route directions in relation to information needs in multi-modal traveling. We outline a model of variability in granularity and apply this model to empirical data. Results reveal that human as well as computer generated route directions provide onedimensional route elements in hierarchically structured ways that reflect the salient structu...

We have undertaken molecular dynamics simulations on the d(CGCAAAAAAGCG).d(CGCTTTTTTGCG) dodecamer in solution. In this study, we focus on aspects of conformation and dynamics, including the possibility of cross-strand hydrogen bonds. We compare our results with those from crystallography as well as infrared, Raman and NMR spectroscopy and cyclization kinetics. Our method of analysis allows us ...

Over the past decades, numerous damage diagnosis techniques based on modal flexibility have been studied and developed for various types of structures, but rarely structures made functionally graded (FG) materials. This paper aims to present extensive applicability a sensitivity-based index termed as MFBDI identification FG beams. The formulation this is closed-form sensitivity derived from dir...