The 2014 Ms 6.5 (Mw6.1) Ludian earthquake occurred in the eastern Sichuan-Yunnan border region of western China. This earthquake caused much more severe engineering damage than the usual earthquakes with the same magnitude in China. The National Strong Motion Network obtained large set of ground motion recordings during the earthquake. To investigate the engineering interested characteristics o...

We consider the problem of reconstructing global quantum states from local data. Because the reconstruction problem has many solutions in general, we consider the reconstructed state of maximum global entropy consistent with the local data. We show that unique ground states of local Hamiltonians are exactly reconstructed as the maximal entropy state. More generally, we show that if the state in...

Recently, concerning failure of structures due to earthquakes, special investigations of near fault ground motions have been noticed. Hence, in this paper, characteristics of near field ground motions have been considered in horizontal and vertical directions. In this consideration, the record averages have been compared with Uniform Building Code and Eurocode8 spectra in two levels. In additio...

Abstract General faults in regular electrical railways system could be detect by implementing the specific protection functions such as ground fault or sensitive earth fault. Otherwise, in ungrounded electrical railway systems which using both feeding and return contact rail at the same time, fault detection cannot done with above-mentioned function. Due to recent growth in electrical railway ...

The authors propose a novel approach to the problem of polarizabilities and dissociation in electric fields from the static limit of the Vignale-Kohn (VK) functional. The response to the purely scalar part of the VK response potential is considered. This potential has ground-state properties that notably improve over the full VK response density and over usual (semi-)local functionals. The corr...

The local primitives found in binary images are useful in the analysis and recognition of document and patent images. In this paper, an optimum detection of end points and junction points is obtained using morphological spurring and the granulometric curve of the image. A distance based algorithm is proposed to classify the local primitives found at the detected points. The size of the local re...

has been studied by several authors, where 1 < p for N = 2, 1 < p < (N + 2)/(N − 2) for N ≥ 3 and Q(x) is a positive bounded continuous function. If Q(x) is a radial function, we can find infinity many solutions of problem (PQ) by restricting our attention to the radial functions (cf. [2, 5]). IfQ(x) is nonradial, we encounter a difficulty caused by the lack of a compact embedding of Sobolev ty...