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Francisco J. Chávez-García, Hugo Monsalve Jaramillo, Marisol Gómez Cano and José J. Vila Ortega
The city of Armenia, Colombia has been repeatedly subjected to moderate magnitude earthquakes. Damage in that city for the 1999 (Mw6.2) event was disproportionate (maximum observed EMS-92 intensity of IX), even considering the small epicentral distance (...
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Zorigt Tumurbaatar, Hiroyuki Miura and Tsoggerel Tsamba
Due to the population growth and urban sprawl in Ulaanbaatar city (UB), Mongolia, hazard and risk analysis for future earthquakes have become an important issue for disaster mitigation planning. Evaluation of a site effect is one of the essential parts o...
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Jianhua Ding, Qi Yao and Lei Jiang
Despite the fact that a 2-degree spectral sensitivity curve (SSC) is extensively used in scientific research and relevant applications, the choice between the 10-degree or the 2-degree photopic SSCs in practical applications for the calculation of scotop...
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Francisco Grajales-Saavedra, Alexis Mojica, Carlos Ho, Krysna Samudio, George Mejía, Saddy Li, Larisa Almengor, Roberto Miranda and Melisabel Muñoz
The City of David constitutes one of the most important commercial centers of the Republic of Panama. However, it is located on a coastal plane, close to an area with high seismic activity and has been affected by significant earthquakes (18 July 1934, M...
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Luis A. Pinzón, Luis G. Pujades, Albert Macau, Emilio Carreño and Juan M. Alcalde
Normally, the average of the horizontal-to-vertical (H/V) ratios of the 5% damped response spectra of ground motions is used to classify the site of strong-motion stations. In these cases, only the three-orthogonal as-recorded acceleration components are...
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Gergely Nagymáté, Rita M. Kiss
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During postural stability evaluation frequency analyses are applied on the motion of the foot center of pressure (CoP). In this study we compared the most widely used frequency type CoP parameters (median frequency, mean power frequency, bandwidth) inclu...
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Xiuyi Yao, Wanqing Wang and Yuntian Teng
Extracting weak seismic-magnetic signals from strong electromagnetic backgrounds has always been an important part of seismic-electromagnetic research. Based on the data of D/H/Z components measured through a three-axis ring-core-type fluxgate magnetomet...
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Shan Lu, Xinwei Wang, Tianzheng Wang, Xinran Qin, Xilin Wang and Zhidong Jia
The composition of contamination deposited on transmission line insulators can affect their surface flashover voltage. Currently, there is no rapid on-line method to detect this contamination composition in power grids. In this paper, we applied laser-in...
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Muhammad Jawad, Jens Soltwisch, Klaus Dreisewerd and Lars Linsen
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is an imaging technique used in analytical chemistry to study the molecular distribution of various compounds at a micro-scale level. For each pixel, MSI stores a mass spectrum obtained by measuring signal intensities of t...
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Thomas J. Tewes, Michael C. Welle, Bernd T. Hetjens, Kevin Saruni Tipatet, Svyatoslav Pavlov, Frank Platte and Dirk P. Bockmühl
Numerous publications showing that robust prediction models for microorganisms based on Raman micro-spectroscopy in combination with chemometric methods are feasible, often with very precise predictions. Advances in machine learning and easier accessibil...
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Péter L. Erdos and Tamás Róbert Mezei
In contemporary wireless communication networks, base stations are organized into coordinated clusters (called cells) to jointly serve the users. However, such fixed systems are plagued by the so-called cell-edge problem: near the boundaries, the interfe...
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Yu Meng, Wenming Sun, Hongbin Gu, Fang Chen and Ruixu Zhou
Since flame stability is the key to the performance of scramjets, scramjet combustion mode and instability characteristics were investigated by using the POD method based on a cavity-stabilized scramjet. Experiments were developed on a directly connected...
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Seyyed Mahdi Najmabadi, Philipp Offenhäuser, Moritz Hamann, Guhathakurta Jajnabalkya, Fabian Hempert, Colin W. Glass and Sven Simon
Computational fluid dynamic simulations involve large state data, leading to performance degradation due to data transfer times, while requiring large disk space. To alleviate the situation, an adaptive lossy compression algorithm has been developed, whi...
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Gema Ibarra, José Acosta Chang, Leobardo López-Pineda
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The civil structures are mostly damaged when the fundamental period of the structure is close to the dominant period of ground motion (DP) where it is founded. To increase the security of the seismic design of new structures or the reinforcement of exist...
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C.D. Rullan-Silva,A.E. Olthoff,J.A. Delgado de la Mata,J.A. Pajares-Alonso
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Aim of study: This paper reviews the global research during the last 6 years (2007-2012) on the state, trends and potential of remote sensing for detecting, mapping and monitoring forest defoliation caused by insects.Area of study: The review covers rese...
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Mikhail V. Belyakov, Gennady N. Samarin, Vyacheslav A. Ruzhev, Alexander A. Kudryavtsev, Igor Yu. Efremenkov and Nikita D. Blinov
For the efficient production and processing of milk, it is important to control its quality indicators. Optical spectroscopy, in combination with statistical analysis methods, can be a useful method of evaluation due to its speed, non-invasiveness, and r...
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Cristina Alegria and Teresa Albuquerque
Continuous monitoring of water resources is essential for ensuring sustainable urban water supply. Remote sensing techniques have proven to be valuable in monitoring certain qualitative parameters of water with optical characteristics. This survey was co...
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Chenyang Zhu, Tomaso Gaggero, Nicholas C. Makris and Purnima Ratilal
The time-dependent spectral characteristics of underwater sound radiated by an ocean vessel has complex dependencies on ship machinery, propeller dynamics, hydrodynamics of ship exhaust and motion, as well as ship board activities. Here the underwater so...
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Xinjun Cheng, Xiang Xu, Zhinan Hu, Liping Jing, Haian Liang and Jie Cui
To study the dynamic response of a saturated sand-underground structure system subjected to earthquakes, a series of shaking table tests with a geometric scale ratio of 1/30 were conducted. Based on the experimental acceleration records of testing soil d...
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Maruf Mortula, Tarig Ali, Abdallah Bachir, Ahmed Elaksher and Mohamed Abouleish
The last few decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in nutrient levels (phosphorus and nitrogen) in coastal water leading to excessive algal growth (Eutrophication). The presence of large amounts of algae turns the water?s color into green or red, ...
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