Abstract—This study estimates the seismic demands of tall buildings with central symmetric setbacks by using nonlinear time history analysis. Three setback structures, all 60-story high with setback in three levels, are used for evaluation. The effects of irregularities occurred by setback are evaluated by determination of global-drift, story-displacement and story drift. Story-displacement is ...

In this paper we are concerned with the drift wave turbulence in a strong magnetic field. The existence and the uniqueness of a strong Stepanovalmost-periodic solution to the initial boundary value problems are established both for the model equations of the resistive drift wave turbulence and for the three-dimensional Hasegawa–Wakatani equations when the initial data are Stepanov-almost-period...

Future experiments will use silicon sensors in the harsh radiation environment of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) and high magnetic fields. The drift direction of the charge carriers is affected by the Lorentz force due to the high magnetic field. Also the resulting radiation damage changes the properties of the drift. In this paper measurements of the Lorentz angle of electrons and holes befor...

Adapting to a 20 Hz oscillating grating reduces the apparent duration of a 10 Hz drifting grating displayed subsequently in the same location as the adaptor. The effect is orientation-independent as it remains once the adaptor is rotated 90° relative to the tests (Johnston, Arnold, & Nishida, 2006). However, it was shown that, for random dots moving at 3°/s, duration compression follows adaptat...

BACKGROUND Motion characteristics of CoP (Centre of Pressure, the point of application of the resultant ground reaction force acting on the plate) are useful for foot type characteristics detection. To date, only few studies have investigated the nonlinear characteristics of CoP velocity and acceleration during the stance phase. The aim of this study is to investigate whether CoP regularity is ...

This paper discusses the manipulation of multiple objects grasped by the enveloping grasp. In case of the enveloping grasp, since the contact force cannot be uniquely determined for a given joint torque, the resultant force also cannot be obtained uniquely. We derive a joint torque set enabling the resultant force set directing the desired direction. First, we extract the feature of the contact...

A new theorem for the development and convergence analysis of supervised training algorithms with an adaptive learning rate for each weight is presented. Based on this theoretical result, a strategy is proposed to automatically adapt the search direction, as well as the stepsize length along the resultant search direction. This strategy is applied to some well known local learning algorithms to...

Recall that our proposed input parameterization is R = 17 subdivisions in the radial direction, E = 11 in the elevation direction, A = 12 in the azimuth direction, and a search radius of 17% of the diameter of the model. The resultant dimensionality of the input histogram is N = 2,244. In each experiment we select one of these parameters and consider the parameterization resulting from changing...

In ubiquitous data stream mining, di®erent devices often aim to learn concepts that are similar to some extent. In many applications, such as spam ̄ltering or news recommendation, the data stream underlying concept (e.g., interesting mail/news) is likely to change over time. Therefore, the resultant model must be continuously adapted to such changes. This paper presents a novel Collaborative Dat...