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Near-fault ground motions have notable characteristics such as velocity time histories containing large-amplitude and long-period pulses caused by forward directivity effects and acceleration time histories with high frequency content. These specifications of near-fault earthquake records make structural responses to be different from those expected in far-fault earthquakes. In this paper, using moving average filtering, a set of near-fault earthquake records containing forward directivity pulses are decomposed into two parts having different frequency content: a Pulse-Type Record (PTR) that possesses long period pulses, and a relatively high-frequency Background Record (BGR). Studying the... 

Multi-view imaging and display systems has taken a divide and conquer approach to 3D sensing and visualization. We aim to make more reliable and robust automatic feature extraction and natural 3D feature construction from 2D features detected on a pair of frontal and profile view face images. We propose several heuristic algorithms to minimize possible errors introduced by prevalent imperfect orthogonal condition and non-coherent luminance trying to address the problems incurred with illumination discrepancies on common surface points in accommodation of multi-views. In our approach, we first extract the 2D features that are visible to both cameras in both views. Then, we estimate the... 

Multi view imaging has attracted increasing attention recently and has become one of the potential avenues in future video systems. We aim to make more reliable and robust automatic feature extraction and natural 3D feature construction from 2D features detected on a pair of frontal and profile view face images. We propose several heuristic algorithms to minimize possible errors introduced by prevalent non-perfect orthogonal condition and non-coherent luminance. In our approach, we first extract the 2D features that are visible to both cameras in both views. Then, we estimate the coordinates of the features in the hidden profile view based on the visible features extracted in the two... 

Multi view imaging has attracted increasing attention recently and has become one of the potential avenues in future video systems. We aim to make more reliable and robust automatic feature extraction and natural 3D feature construction from 2D features detected on a pair of frontal and profile view face images. We propose several heuristic algorithms to minimize possible errors introduced by prevalent non-perfect orthogonal condition and non-coherent luminance. In our approach, we first extract the 2D features that are visible to both cameras in both views. Then, we estimate the coordinates of the features in the hidden profile view based on the visible features extracted in the two... 

Recorded accelerograms in the regions near active faults may have specific characteristics that inclusion of their effects on the response of structures is necessary. Of particular importance are permanent displacement, i.e. fling-step, rupture directivity pulses and high-frequency content. Several researchers have focused on the effects of rupture directivity pulses on response of structures. They have shown that long-period structures are severely affected by these types of excitations. However, in near-fault regions, the question 'which building structures are long period?' has not been clearly and quantitatively answered. In this paper, responses of 10-, 20-, 30- and 40-story steel... 

We investigate the dynamics of an initially disentangled Gaussian state on a general finite symmetric graph. As concrete examples we obtain properties of this dynamics on mean field graphs (also called fully connected or complete graphs) of arbitrary sizes. In the same way that chains can be used for transmitting entanglement by their natural dynamics, these graphs can be used to store entanglement. We also consider two kinds of regular polyhedron which show interesting features of entanglement sharing. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved  

Surrounding soil can drastically influence the dynamic response of buildings during strong ground shaking. Soil's flexibility decreases the natural frequencies of the system; and in most cases, soil provides additional damping due to material hysteresis and radiation. The additional damping forces, which are in non-classical form, render the mode shapes of the soil-structure system complex-valued. The response of a soil-foundation system can be compactly represented through impedance functions that have real and imaginary parts representing the stiffness and damping of the system, respectively. These impedance functions are frequency-dependent, and their determination for different... 

Accelerograms recorded near active faults have some important characteristics that make them different from those recorded in far-fault regions. High-frequency components in acceleration records and long-period velocity pulses are among notable specifications of such ground motions. In this paper, a moving average filtering with appropriate cut-off frequency has been used to decompose the near-fault ground motions into two components having different frequency contents: first, Pulse-Type Record (PTR) that possesses long-period pulses; second, the relatively high-frequency BackGround Record (BGR), which does not include large velocity pulses. Comparing the results with those extracted through...