High growth is increasingly forcing development of hazard prone land in the coastal city Tauranga. A multi-hazard mapping tool developed to guide strategic planning this natural rich environment gives direct comparison total levels across city. By aggregating individual hazards into a summative rating for each part city, urban planners and engineers have decision support aid over next 100 years...

This paper presents a geospatial methodology for zoning the earthquake-induced soil liquefaction risk at continental scale and set-up in Geographic Information System (GIS) environment by coupling data-driven knowledge-driven approaches. It is worth mentioning that phenomenon of instability occurring very local spatial scale; thus, mega-zonation hard facing challenge. Since from natural disaste...

Semen analysis of 66 unmarried medical students in the age group of 17-21 years was carried out. A higher liquefaction time pH, motility, lower sperm count and abnormal forms were observed compared to reported values. Liquefaction time, pH and sperm count was found significantly different in non-vegetarians and vegetarians, perhaps due to difference in their dietary proteins.

Herein, the data acquired regarding the preliminary experiments conducted with different catalyst, as well as with two polyhydric alcohols (glycerol and 2-ethylhexanol), for the preparation biooils from cork liquefaction at 160 °C, is disclosed. This data may be helpful for those who intent to outline a liquefaction procedure avoiding, thus, high number of experiments.

A process is described for converting aflatoxin-contaminated corn to ethanol via combining ammonia inactivation with the liquefaction step of the ethanol fermentation process. Better ethanol yields were obtained when ammonia was added during liquefaction than when no ammonia was added. Aflatoxin B1 levels were reduced 80 to 85% by the process.

Black liquor alkaline lignin and magnesium lignosulfonate were liquefied at 320 C. The antioxidant abilities of the liquefaction products were compared with the raw materials. Results showed that the total phenol content and unit antioxidant power of both alkaline lignin liquefaction products (ALLP) and magnesium lignosulfonate liquefaction products (MLLP) were improved, and ALLP had a larger i...

Objective: Human semen is the jelly-like substance mainly containing semenogelin 1 (Sg1) and fibronectin (Fn) with the characteristics of coagulation and liquefaction in a short time. In our previous study, we have identified that Eppin could interact with Sg. Eppin C-terminal fragment bind the Sg fragment containing the only cysteine in human Sg I (Cys-239). Besides that, during semen liquefac...

This study proposes to use a method of nonlinear, nonstationary data processing and analysis, i.e., the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT), to explore and characterize the signatures of soil nonlinearity and/or liquefaction from earthquake ground recordings. The paper first summarizes symptoms of soil nonlinearity and liquefaction shown in earthquake ground motion recordings. It then reviews the Fou...