桁架拱结构在地震动双向多点激励下的反应分析

基于经验相干损失函数和《建筑抗震设计规范》定义的反应谱模拟了空间变化地震动,进行了空间变化水平向和竖向地震动共同激励下桁架拱结构的反应分析。数值分析结果表明,与一致激励引起的结构反应相比,考虑地震动的空间变化增大了桁架拱结构的地震反应,引起地震动空间变化的每一个因素对于结构反应都有重要的影响。传统的基于一致地震动和仅考...     

“Do we teach subjects or students?” Analyzing science and mathematics teacher conversations about issues of equity in the classroom

Teachers involved in a Master's level course in diversity participated in virtual, synchronous, anonymized discussions around issues of ethnic and racial diversity, gender, and stereotypes that could impact their students’ participation in fields related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Guided by theoretical frameworks from Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) and Critical Race Theory (CRT), a convenience sample of 14 science and mathematics teachers participated in a series of virtual chats using open‐ended questioning and facilitated by two university instructors. Using conversation and critical discourse analyses, three primary themes emerged: understanding of issues related to stereotypes, encouragement of females and minorities to pursue careers in STEM, and the place for diversity discussions in science and mathematics classrooms. The teachers felt burdened by curricular and administrative constraints that inhibit their ability to participate in thought‐provoking critical conversations. The paper concludes with a discussion of ways teachers can assist in the STEM career identity development of their underrepresented females and students of color and calls for research that combines the key findings in SCCT and CRT to build confidence and capacity for teachers to effectively confront issues of racism, sexism, and stereotyping in science and mathematics classrooms.     

Empirically supporting school STEM culture—The creation and validation of the STEM Culture Assessment Tool (STEM‐CAT)

School STEM Culture—an aspect of culture within a school community—is defined as the beliefs, values, practices, and resources in STEM fields as perceived by students, parents, teachers, and administrators and counselors within a school. This study validates the STEM Culture Assessment Tool (STEM‐CAT), an instrument intended to advance the use of the School STEM Culture construct within the research community. Internal consistency was determined through the use of Cronbach's alpha and factor analyses, and the instrument was found to be a reliable measure of School STEM Culture. The instrument can be used in future research to quantify School STEM Culture to determine if interventions change the culture of a school to further STEM education.     

Distribution functions for random walk processes on networks: An analytic method

A novel analytic method for deriving and analyzing probability distribution functions of variables arising in random walk problems is presented. Applications of the method to quasi-one-dimensional systems show that the generating functions of interest possess simple poles, and no branch cuts outside the unit complex disk. This fact makes it possible to derive closed formulas for the full probability distribution functions and to analyze their properties. We find that transverse structures attached to a one-dimensional backbone can be responsible for the appearance of power laws in observables such as the distribution of first arrival times or the total current moving through a (model) photoexcited dirty semiconductor (our results compare well with experiment). We conclude that in some cases a geometrical effect, e.g., that of a transverse structure, may be indistinguishable from a dynamical effect (long waiting time); we also find universal shapes of distribution functions (humped structures) which are not characterized by power laws. The role of bias in determining properties of quasi-one-dimensional structures is examined. A master equation for generating functions is derived and applied to the computation of currents. Our method is also applied to a fractal structure, yielding nontrivial power laws. In all finite networks considered, all probability distributions decay exponentially for asymptotically long times.For a relatively recent review with some historical background see Ref. 2.     

首达渗流中关于lim{(N_(on))/n}(n→∞)的一个结果

在二维首达渗流中,设边上通过时间的分布为F（x）,首达时a_（on）的轨道（route）的最短长度为N_（on）,人们猜测存在.本文对F（0）<1/2的情形,就一类特殊的分布证明此猜想成立.     

Last Passage Time Statistics for Barrier-Crossing Processes

A concept of mean last passage time at the saddle point is proposed in order to compute both the lifetime and the escape rate of a particle in a metastable potential, where the backstreaming across the saddle point is taken into account. It is shown that the mean oscillating time around the saddle point is the longest one among all the time scales at high temperatures and the inverse of the mean last passage time at the saddle point is more close to the steady escape rate.     

Aligning simulation models: A case study and results

This paper develops the concepts and methods of a process we will call “alignment of computational models” or “docking” for short. Alignment is needed to determine whether two models can produce the same results, which in turn is the basis for critical experiments and for tests of whether one model can subsume another. We illustrate our concepts and methods using as a target a model of cultural transmission built by Axelrod. For comparison we use the Sugarscape model developed by Epstein and Axtell. The two models differ in many ways and, to date, have been employed with quite different aims. The Axelrod model has been used principally for intensive experimentation with parameter variation, and includes only one mechanism. In contrast, the Sugarscape model has been used primarily to generate rich “artificial histories”, scenarios that display stylized facts of interest, such as cultural differentiation driven by many different mechansims including resource availability, migration, trade, and combat. The Sugarscape model was modified so as to reproduce the results of the Axelrod cultural model. Among the questions we address are: what does it mean for two models to be equivalent, how can different standards of equivalence be statistically evaluated, and how do subtle differences in model design affect the results? After attaining a “docking” of the two models, the richer set of mechanisms of the Sugarscape model is used to provide two experiments in sensitivity analysis for the cultural rule of Axelrod's model. Our generally positive experience in this enterprise has suggested that it could be beneficial if alignment and equivalence testing were more widely practiced among computational modelers.     

作物垄作的数学模型

应用高等数学中对面积的曲面积分等方法,建立了垄作种植中半椭圆形、抛物线型和三角形垄的数学模型,比较了不同垄形、垄宽、垄高在增加单位土地表面积和突出地面垄体体积的效果.     

Advection and dispersion in time and space

Previous work showed how moving particles that rest along their trajectory lead to time-nonlocal advection–dispersion equations. If the waiting times have infinite mean, the model equation contains a fractional time derivative of order between 0 and 1. In this article, we develop a new advection–dispersion equation with an additional fractional time derivative of order between 1 and 2. Solutions to the equation are obtained by subordination. The form of the time derivative is related to the probability distribution of particle waiting times and the subordinator is given as the first passage time density of the waiting time process which is computed explicitly.     

Condition for adiabatic passage in the earth’s-field NMR technique

The equation of motion dM/dt=γ M×B(t) is solved for the case B(t)=jB_p(t)+kB_e. The field B_e is a small static field, typically the earth’s field. The field B_p(t) decays exponentially toward zero with time constant T. This decay is produced by an overdamped switching transient that occurs near the end of the rapid cutoff of the coil current used to polarize the sample. It is assumed that B_p is initially large compared to B_e, and that magnetization M is initially along the resultant field B. Exact solutions are obtained numerically for several decay time constants of B_p, and the motion of M is depicted graphically. It is found that for adiabatic passage, the final cone angle β of the precession in field B_e is related to the decay time constant of B_p by β=2e^{−(π/2)ω_eT}. This is confirmed by measurements of the amplitudes of the ensuing free-precession signals for various decay rates of B_p. Near-perfect adiabatic passage (magnetization aligned within 2° of the earth’s field) can be achieved for time constants T2.6/ω_e. For the case of sudden passage, an approximate analytic solution is developed by linearizing the equation of motion in the laboratory frame of reference. For the adiabatic case, an approximate analytic solution is obtained by linearizing the equation of motion in a rotating frame of reference that follows the resultant field B=B_p+B_e.