In the course of studies on the desamidation of glutamine in rat liver extracts marked acceleration of this reaction was noted in the presence of 2,4-diketovaleric acid (acetopyruvic acid) .l Recent work indicates that pyruvic acid and certain other ar-keto acids increase the desamidation of glutamine in aqueous extracts of normal and neoplastic rat liver (l-3). Investigation of the mechanism o...

In this study, the effect of earthquake frequency content and noise effects on damage detection has been investigated. For this purpose, the damage was defined as nonlinear behavior of beams and columns, and several ground motion records were scaled so that some elements yield under the applied excitation. Then the acceleration response data of each floor obtained using the nonlinear dynamic an...

Catastrophic landslides involve the acceleration and deceleration of millions of tons of rock and debris in response to the forces of gravity and dissipation. Their unpredictability and frequent location in remote areas have made observations of their dynamics rare. Through real-time detection and inverse modeling of teleseismic data, we show that landslide dynamics are primarily determined by ...

This paper builds on the authors’ planar kinematic synthesis for contact task specifications and formulates the kinematic specification of the synthesis problem for spatial open-serial chains in which a desired acceleration of the endeffector is specified. Applications of this research focus on the design of spatial linkages to maintain specified local motion. A recently developed failure recov...

Purpose: Predicting body Center of Mass (COM) acceleration is carried out with more accuracy based on the acceleration of three joints of lower limb compared to only accounting joints of hip and ankle. Given that trunk movement during quite standing is noticeable, calculating trunk acceleration in model might increase prediction accuracy of COM acceleration. Moreover, in previous research studi...

Comparison of 1719 differential GPS measurements with a 1 m LiDAR DEM covering West Seattle shows that DEM elevation errors range from –4.88 m to +3.32 m. The errors are spatially correlated with a semivariogram range of 125 m, an unclustered mean of –0.11 m, and an unclustered standard deviation of ±0.75 m. Although there are statistically significant correlations between elevation error and e...

Much effort has been devoted to the synthesis of gold nanoparticles with different shapes, including the zero-dimensional nanospheres, one dimensional nanorods, and two-dimensional nanoplates. Compared to zero or one dimensional nanostructures, the synthesis of two-dimensional nanostructures in high yield has always been more involved, often requiring complex and timeconsuming steps such as mor...

We prove generating function identities producing fast convergent series for the sequences β(2n + 1), β(2n + 2) and β(2n+3), where β is Dirichlet's beta function. In particular, we obtain a new accelerated series for Catalan's constant convergent at a geometric rate with ratio 2 −10 , which can be considered as an analog of Amdeberhan-Zeilberger's series for ζ(3).

Recently, Sidi [Sidi, A. (1995): Acceleration of convergence of (generalized) Fourier series by the d-transformation. Ann. Numer. Math. 2, 381–406] proposed a method for the convergence acceleration of certain orthogonal expansions. The present contribution shows that it is possible to extend the method proposed by Sidi to a wider class of problems by simple means. The extended method is both s...

Car body acceleration is an important factor affecting track safety and ride comfort, which are two primary aspects of railway systems. Though track level is an important source of wagon body acceleration, no quantitative relation between them is available and the aim of this paper is to propose a method to address this issue. To do so, car body acceleration is determined using a 10 DOF simulat...