These revolutions are post-Islamist in the sense that they are driven not by young Muslims seeking an authentic identity and escape from perceived Western humiliation through political identification with Islam — as in Tehran in 1979 — but by young Muslims demanding freedom, representation and the rule of law.
The current study develops a simplified design method based on equivalent dual multi-degree-of-freedom and single-degree-of-freedom representations, discussing the effects of damper yield drift, and stiffness ratios between the elastic moment frame, spine frame, and dampers on the structural response.
Therefore, a simplified analytical approach needs to accommodate both global and local dynamic responses in the model, as opposed to the well established single-degree-of-freedom representation in typical seismic response analyses.
The implementation of the method is carried out through a computer program developed for the purpose and it is demonstrated that the entire process is as simple as the present techniques based on a single-degree-of-freedom representation.
These essays examine the question of "freedom", its representations and its interpretations within the literatures of Scotland.
A nation built on ideas of freedom, political representation and individual rights should not be dependent on nations that have none of them.
Against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, Turkey's ever restive Kurds have begun a fresh push to achieve what they have been fighting for since the founding of the Turkish republic in 1923: true freedom of representation and the right to be educated in their mother tongue.
We will collectively engage with issues of intellectual property, access to information, privacy, freedom of speech, representation, and peer production.
Meng enjoys a full panoply of rights, including legal representation, freedom on bail, and a hearing before an impartial and independent decision-maker.
Since source type has two degrees of freedom, its visual representation can be projected onto a two-dimensional plane.
