Older existing reinforced concrete (R/C) frame structures often contain shear-dominated vertical structural elements, which can experience loss of axial load-bearing capacity after a shear failure, hence initiating progressive collapse. An experimental investigation previously reported by the authors focused on effect increasing compressive load non-linear post-peak lateral response shear, and ...

neuroimaging. I laid out the critical prediction derived from load theory, namely that visual cortex responses to distractor stimuli should depend on the level of load in the attended task, in the same manner as I had shown in my behavioural studies. About a year later, following a departmental seminar, Chris introduced me to his PhD student saying: “Geraint, this is Nilli: we will be testing t...

In many code streams, a load instruction is on a critical path and is followed by a chain of operations depending on the load. The execution of a load from memory often yields a long latency on a modern microprocessor. To compensate for this latency and reduce the length of the critical path, one way is to trigger the load as early as possible in a non-blocking way. However, to preserve the sem...