During earthquakes, ground failure is commonly caused by liquefaction. Thus, assessment of soil liquefaction potential in earthquake-prone regions a crucial step towards reducing earthquake hazard. Since Babol city Iran country located high seismic area, estimation great importance this city. For purpose, the present research, using field-based methods and geotechnical data (such as unit weight...

A multi-year cone penetration testing program was conducted at a landslide subject to episodic retrogression in Mud Creek, Ottawa, assess whether hand-operated mobile test (CPT) could yield new insights into the current degree of remolding under progressive failure metastable areas where conventional tracked rigs are unable gain access. The CPT rig permitted tests be performed through entire th...

PURPOSE To use adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) to quantify cone loss ratio in the foveola in order to assess foveal cone status and to investigate relationships between foveal structural abnormalities and visual function in patients with macular hole (MH) after surgery. METHODS We evaluated 10 normal eyes of 10 healthy volunteers and 19 eyes of 18 patients in whom anato...

PURPOSE To assess photoreceptor structure in macular microholes by using adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AO-SLO) and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and compare with visual acuity. METHODS Fourteen eyes from 12 patients with macular microholes underwent a full ophthalmologic examination and imaging with a fundus camera, SD-OCT, and an original prototype AO...

In this study, liquefaction potential of the alluvial soils consisting clay, silt, and sand sized materials in Sahilkent (Bafra, Samsun) area was investigated using CPT data. Within scope 20 boreholes each having a depth 15 meters were drilled throughout Bafra district, one undisturbed soil sample obtained per meter from 5 these located area. Wet sieve, hydrometer, plastic limit, liquid natural...

We observe a hollow structure and a fine ring in the proton images from a petawatt scale laser interaction with a "cone-fiber" target. The protons related to the hollow structure are accelerated from the cone-tip surface and deflected later by a radial electric field surrounding the fiber. Those associated with the fine ring are accelerated from the fiber surface by this radial electric field. ...

Multiple proteins are targeted to photoreceptor outer segments (OSs) where they function in phototransduction. Intraflagellar transport (IFT), a highly conserved bidirectional transport pathway occurring along the microtubules of the ciliary axoneme has been implicated in OS trafficking. The canonical anterograde motor for IFT is the heterotrimeric kinesin II or KIF3 complex. Previous work from...

String propagation on a cone with deficit angle 2π(1 − 1 N) is described by constructing a non-compact orbifold of a plane by a Z N subgroup of rotations. It is modular invariant and has tachyons in the twisted sectors that are localized to the tip of the cone. A possible connection with the quantum corrections to the black hole entropy is outlined. The entropy computed by analytically continui...

We show that quantum Hall states on surfaces with conical singularities behave as conformal primaries near the singular points, with a conformal dimension controlled by the gravitational anomaly. We show that the electronic fluid at the cone tip possesses an intrinsic angular momentum equal to the conformal dimension, in units of the Planck constant. Finally, we argue that the gravitational ano...