â â â  â â â  abstract â  using a structural var with block exogeneity, diagonality and identifying restrictions, this paper analyzes: first, the macroeconomic linkages among the oil price, u.s. output, interest rate, money supply, general price level and exchange rate and second, the relationships of the macroeconomic variables with the price indices of ten international nonfuel commodity grou...

This paper completes a recent benchmark study in active structural control of a civil engineering structure. The previous work gave an analytical definition of a structure combined with actuators and sensors, along with 15 papers applying various control strategies to this common problem using the same evaluation and performance criteria. As actual implementation is the ultimate test of control...

i needed to dereference the names and descriptions of equipment referred to n the text, and to infer their causal relations and operational states when e s these are only implicitly expressed by the message writer. Knowing th tructural configuration of the equipment is useful in both tasks, and a s a structural domain model can be extracted readily from equipment manual nd their accompanying pa...

bstract—Cognitive impairment in normal aging and neuroegenerative diseases is accompanied by altered morpholoies on multiple scales. Understanding of the role of these tructural changes in producing functional deficits in brain ging and neuropsychiatric disorders requires accurate hree-dimensional representations of neuronal morphology, nd realistic biophysical modeling that can directly relate...

After a reg ionwide two-cen tu ry per iod of deforestation and agrar ian expansion, the d ramat i c reduct ion in agr icul ture in N e w Eng land dur ing the past 150 years genera ted a wave of land-cover change . Fores t cover increased from less than 3 0 % to more than 7 5 % in m a n y regions. Despi te suppor t ing one of the densest h u m a n popula t ions in the nat ion, N e w Eng land is ...

In wave chaotic scattering, statistical fluctuations of the scattering matrix S and the impedance matrix Z depend both on universal properties and on nonuniversal details of how the scatterer is coupled to external channels. This paper considers the impedance and scattering variance ratios, Xi(z) and Xi(s), where Xi(z) = Var[Z(ij)]/{Var[Z(ii)]Var[Z(jj)]}1/2, Xi(s) = Var[S(ij)]/{Var[S(ii)]Var[S(...

Both Salvia akiensis and S. lutescens (Lamiaceae) are endemic to Japan. Salvia akiensis was recently described in 2014 in the Chugoku (= SW Honshu) region, and each four varieties of S. lutescens distributed allopatrically. Among varieties in S. lutescens, var. intermedia show a disjunctive distribution in the Kanto (=E Honshu) and Kinki (= W Honshu) regions. Recent field studies of S. lutescen...

Comparative analysis of the genome sequences of Solanum lycopersicum variety Heinz 1706 and S. pimpinellifolium accession LA 1589 using MUGSY software identified 145 695 insertion-deletion (InDel) polymorphisms. A selected set of 3029 candidate InDels (≥2 bp) across the entire tomato genome were subjected to PCR validation, and 82.4% could be verified. Of 2272 polymorphic InDels between LA 1589...