Distinguishing damages from two earthquakes —Archaeoseismology of a Crusader castle (Al-Marqab citadel, Syria)

Damages from two major earthquakes are identified in medieval Al-Marqab citadel (Latin: Margat) in coastal Syria. Built by the Order of St. John (Hospitallers) in the twelfth–thirteenth centuries, the hilltop fortification has masonry walls made with and without mortar, using the opus caementum technology (Roman concrete). V-shaped and U-shaped failures, single-corner and symmetrical corner collapses, and in-plane shifts of ashlar masonry walls are identified and dated by historical and archaeological methods. The azimuth of displacement is NE-SW for the older damages of the Crusader period (A.D. 1170–1285), possibly related to the A.D. 1202 earthquake. A later, NW-SE displacement occurred during the Muslim period (post- 1285). The 1202 earthquake produced at least VIII intensity on the MSK scale at Al-Marqab, which is higher than previously considered

Volume 63, Number 08 (August 1945)

What Good is Art? Here Comes the Band Have You Met Her? Art of Duo Singing (interview the Victoria Anderson and Viola Morris) Beethoven\u27s Martinet Teacher Let\u27s Clarify Music Teaching! (interview with Leo Reisman) Mr. Piano Writes His Autobiography Building an Orchestra (interview with Karl Krueger) Place of Music in Military Hospitals: With Particular Reference to Its Use During Convalescence and Reconditioning of Men with Wartime Injuries Things Some Teachers Ought to Know Adult Beginners Want to Learn Music in New Chinahttps://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/1202/thumbnail.jp

Transecting the Heart: An Atrium Investigation

An oxbow in a river creates a peninsula with a unique environment, distant from the surrounding land. Similarly, the oxbow-shaped Federal Center South Building 1202 contains a peninsula, an enclosed atrium, with an environment unlike the flowing current of offices that surround it. The cool modern offices are contrasted with the warmth of the central timber structure. The exposed timber beams and columns consist of wood reclaimed from a warehouse that previously stood on the site. In conversation with the modern oxbow of offices, the timber is reinforced by steel beams, giving it new life. During our initial research phase, we investigated the context in which the Federal Center South Building 1202 was built. As a model of green building practice and sustainable design, this ZGF Architects project set high standards for collaboration and renewal in architecture. Working with the General Service Association, the architects set their priorities on designing a building that would not only serve the needs of the client, the US Army Corp of Engineers Northwest District Headquarters staff, but would address the environment as well. This building received a LEED Platinum rating and is designed to renew the once-polluted industrial brownfield site and restore the Duwamish River shoreline. After this initial step, our research focused in on a section of the three-story atrium structure with a cantilevered piece. We began our analysis with an elevation drawing, to understand the overall design of this portion of the atrium. As we looked deeper into the structure, we discovered that not all of it is exposed—and not all of it is timber. The primary horizontal structure consists of steel beams, which support secondary timber beams and timber decking. Certain floor elements are hidden behind panels that closely resemble these beams. These and the timber elements are noted and described in our analytical wall section drawing. Additionally, we analyzed the spatial ordering of these elements in three dimensions through an axonometric drawing. This drawing helped us understand the module and repetitive sequences of the structural system. After going through this process of investigative drawing, we have a better understanding of structural systems and the layers of enclosure within buildings

The Voice, September 1975: Volume 22, Issue 1

977 Students Enroll for the 1975/76 School Year; Van Dyk Receives PhD. from Cornell; Faculty and Administrative Positions Filled; The Urgency of Continued Communal Discussion; Annual Tri-State Teachers\u27 Institute is October 2 & 3; Vander Stelt Speaks at Conference in South Africa; Haan Emphasizes Christian Life-Style at Convocation Exercises; Admissions Counselors Available for Home Visits; Thalians to Perform The Tempest in New Community Theatre; Dordt\u27s Library Building Begins 10th Year of Service; Boersma\u27s Beautiful Flowers; Dordt to Observe Bicentennial With a Variety of Activities; In Memory of One of Dordt\u27s Founding Fathershttps://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/dordt_voice/1202/thumbnail.jp

African Regional Integration: Implications for Food Security

This report looks at the African regional trade, regional integration agreements (RIAs) and the implications for food security. An overview is presented on the present state of African regional integration and the determinants of regional trade in agriculture and food commodities. In particular the study focuses on eight target countries, related RIAs and a set of strategic food commodities. The evidence presented in this study shows that African countries have made progress in opening up agriculture and food trade with partner countries. With, the exception of Ghana, Tanzania and Mozambique, the effective applied tariff rates for regional trade partners are substantially lower than the (MFN) rates applied to world trade partners. Nonetheless, regional trade in agriculture and food only increased marginally between 1990 and 2009, and is relatively low in comparison with other developing regions. The weak state of soft and hard infrastructure, rather than high trade tariffs, seem to be the cause of thi

Effects of Medial Preoptic Lesions on\ud Placentophagia and on the Onset of Maternal\ud Behavior in the Rat

Lesions of the medial preoptic area (MPO) were produced through permanently indwelling electrodes 24 hr prior to parturition in pregnant rats, or 24 hr prior to donor-placenta presentation in virgin rats determined in a pretest to be placentophages. The lesions had no disruptive effect on placentophagia in the virgin females. However, MPO lesions did delay the onset of placentophagia, pup-retrieval, and nestbuilding in some parturient rats. In others, lesions produced an impairment (in latency and quality) only of nest-building. None showed any impairment of pup-licking, or in the clear tendency to leave excreted waste away from the gathered pups. These results suggest the possibility of at least semi-independent mechanisms for the various components of maternal behavior

Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition

Deeper neural networks are more difficult to train. We present a residual learning framework to ease the training of networks that are substantially deeper than those used previously. We explicitly reformulate the layers as learning residual functions with reference to the layer inputs, instead of learning unreferenced functions. We provide comprehensive empirical evidence showing that these residual networks are easier to optimize, and can gain accuracy from considerably increased depth. On the ImageNet dataset we evaluate residual nets with a depth of up to 152 layers---8x deeper than VGG nets but still having lower complexity. An ensemble of these residual nets achieves 3.57% error on the ImageNet test set. This result won the 1st place on the ILSVRC 2015 classification task. We also present analysis on CIFAR-10 with 100 and 1000 layers. The depth of representations is of central importance for many visual recognition tasks. Solely due to our extremely deep representations, we obtain a 28% relative improvement on the COCO object detection dataset. Deep residual nets are foundations of our submissions to ILSVRC & COCO 2015 competitions, where we also won the 1st places on the tasks of ImageNet detection, ImageNet localization, COCO detection, and COCO segmentation.Comment: Tech repor

Application of the Thin Incorporation Doctrine to the Subchapter S One-Class-of-Stock Requirement

The Treasury\u27s recent amendment of its regulation regarding the treatment of purported debt obligations as a second class of stock for purposes of Subchapter S election represents a more defensible interpretation of the statute. However, since the regulation calls for an application of the principles of the thin incorporation doctrine to an area in which they are seemingly irrelevant, many Subchapter S corporations may be subjected to excessive penalties. This comment explores the decisional authority preceding the amendment, and examines the propriety of analyzing the one-class-of-stock requirement in terms of thin incorporation precepts