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In the 1990s Taiwan and Poland were similarly plagued by the inroads of massive commercialism amidst diminishing cultural resources. Along with newly gained autonomy and cultural awakening, national identity had become a pressing issue. This book includes essays from a conference co-sponsored by the National Science Council, Taiwan, and the Polish Academy of Sciences, held in Warsaw between October 15 and 17, 2000. The contributions address the issues of localization and/or globalization in the age of transitions in Taiwan, Poland, and neighboring countries (Czech Republic, Lithuania, and...

This work consists of two parts: engineering seismology and earthquake-resistant design. Special attention is placed on bridging the gap between these two disciplines. The fundamentals of seismology, earthquake engineering and random processes are introduced. This is followed by a chapter describing the earthquake intensity, ground motions, and its damage effects. In ensuing chapters concerning the earthquake-resistant design, both fundamental theories and new research problems and future directions are presented, including methods for foundation design and structural experiments. Finally, in...

Energy harvesting system using piezoelectric material provides an autonomous solution for powering low power electronic devices such as remote sensing nodes. However, operating a slightly high power devices using piezoelectric material as energy source is still not possible due to low power output density. Therefore, researchers have continuously finding ways to optimize the system to increase the power output. A new method is proposed in this book by folding a given piezoelectric material equally and then splitting it for the use of efficient electrical power generation. These reduced width...