SPOT panchromatic imagery of Beijing has been studied to capture the unique spatial pattern of the city. Texture analysis, which reveals spatial variations, was adopted to interpret the urban spatial patterns. Statistical and structural texture features were extracted from the SPOT image and evaluated for their capability of detailed mapping of urban structures. Supervised image classifications...

Response modification factor (R-factor) is one of the seismic design parameters to consider nonlinear performance of building structures during strong earthquake. Relying on this, many seismic design codes led to reduce earthquake loads imposed to the structure. The present paper tries to evaluate the R-factors of conventional concentric braced frames (CBFs) and special moment frames (MRFs) in ...

Academic governance is an important dimension of institutional self-governance. This paper reports on the findings of a new study of university senates (academic councils) in Canadian universities in order to analyze changes in structure and in senate members’ perceptions of the structure and role of senates over the last decade. Following the basic design of a similar study in 2000, this study...

There is an increasing amount of research focussing on the transition to adulthood, a stage of the life cycle where young people face demanding life decisions, including completion of education, finding stable employment, and establishing their household and family. Whereas there is a well-developed literature on poverty among households in general, very little research has focused on poverty a...

Midto high-rise buildings are often braced by slender reinforced concrete (RC) walls, which are coupled by RC floor diaphragms. In design it is typically assumed that the walls act independently and the design base shear demand is computed neglecting any compatibility forces between the walls. Pushover analysis of systems comprising walls of different lengths have, however, shown that large com...

Traditional modeling approaches support a limited set of instantiation levels (typically one for classes and another adjacent one for objects). Multi-level modeling approaches on the other hand have no such limit to the number of levels. As a consequence, an arbitrary number of levels may be used to define models, and the distinction between class and instance is redefined. The paper summarizes...

This paper discusses the forensic investigation of a fatality-involved catastrophic structure collapse and the special challenges faced when tasked with directing such an effort. While this paper discusses the investigation’s findings and the outcome of the event; this paper’s primary focus is on the challenges faced directing a forensic investigation that requires coordinating with governmenta...

Examining the effects of information sources on individual earning rates in the South Korean stock market Eunil Park & Sang Jib Kwon To cite this article: Eunil Park & Sang Jib Kwon (2015) Examining the effects of information sources on individual earning rates in the South Korean stock market, Economic ResearchEkonomska Istraživanja, 28:1, 650-667, DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2015.1083878 To link to...

As he thumbed through his manual, my memory reverted to a cryptanalysis course that my fiancee had taken at Brooklyn College, given by Professor Jack Wolfe of the math department. She and I would sit in a sunny meadow in Prospect Park, and I helped with the frequency counts. My reverie was broken by the information that I was to be sent to Vint Hill Farms Station, near Warrenton, Virginia close...