This is a paper about premodification in the English noun phrase, focusing on functions of attributive adjectives. Modification in general is an issue that has received comparatively little attention in linguistic research, at least outside the field of syntax (see eg Frawley 1992: 437); Although there are some systematic descriptions of premodifier functions to be found in the literature, much...

1 Dept of Global Architecture, Graduate School of Eng., Osaka University, Japan. Email: [email protected] 2 Department of Global Architecture, Graduate School of Eng., Osaka University, Osaka, Japan 3 Department of Architectural Engineering, Graduate School of Eng., Osaka University, Osaka, Japan SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION OF THE BASE ISOLATED STRUCTURE BY PREDICTION ERROR METHOD USING R...

AbstractThe Daikai Station subway structure in Japan completely collapsed during the Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1995. Based numerical results obtained by two-dime...

Long-period strong motions (> 0.9 second) are simulated in the Kobe area for the mainshock (1/17/95) and the aftershock (2/2/95) of the Hyogoken-Nanbu (Kobe) earthquake. In order to model ground motions in the realistic and highly heterogeneous basin structure, an unstructured 3D FEM (Finite Element Method) is used, which runs efficiently on parallel computers. The simulation results show stron...

abstract: in this study, al 2 o 3 /eg and tio 2 /eg nanofluids as coolants have been used in the double-tube heat exchanger. the hot solvent inlet heat exchanger must be cooled down with a specified amount. we can use nanofluids as coolants in the heat exchanger for optimization of the heat transfer area. therefore, the efficacy of nanofluids as coolants is verified. furthermore, flow rate of c...

We prove that if a group G is systolic, i.e. if it acts properly and cocompactly on a systolic complex X, then an appropriate Rips complex constructed from X is a finite model for EG.