Application of the ET method in performance-based design of structures has been studied by introducing a continuous performance target curve, which expresses the limit of the proper seismic performance of a structure along various times of the ET accelerogram.
The storage systems studied are optimized by introducing a new performance criterion described as the cost rate number.
In a speech introducing a performance by the Boulder Philharmonic, Jared Polis, a Democratic congressman from Colorado, brought up the Republican plan to eliminate the N.E.A., triggering loud boos.
In very different news, Tuesday's charity fundraiser Fashion Rocks was livened up when Justin Bieber, who was supposed to be introducing a performance by Rita Ora with supermodel Lara Stone, decided it would be appropriate to strip down to his boxers and do some lunges.
To find appropriate design parameters, yearly optical performance is simulated by using meteorological data and introducing a performance index.
This objective is satisfied, subject to fundamental limitations on achievable performance, by introducing a new cheap-control quadratic performance index that has the desired transient response characteristic embedded within it.
Editorial is addressing the poor appraisal performance by introducing a number of training sessions with managers.
Yang et al. further improved its performance by introducing a new similarity measure in [27].
GDMAC improves the performance by introducing a cluster density parameter for the whole network.
Music boundary detection performance by introducing a dissimilarity measure for finding acoustically changing points was evaluated for both a voice-music mixed dataset and a continuous music dataset.
