earthquakes could have catastrophic impacts on tunnels and buried structures. liquefaction phenomenon is one of the most destructive effects of earthquakes. liquefaction results in decreasing effective stress and this consequently leads to decreases in shear strength of the soil. as a result, large deformation in both soil and buried structure occurs. moreover, liquefaction causes soil boiling,...

Research on graphene is proving to have more lives than a cat, repeatedly coming back in new incarnations including graphene's recent alter ego, two-dimensional emptiness.

We study the dynamical behavior of the dilaton in the background of three-dimensional Kerr-de Sitter space which is inspired from the low-energy string effective action. The perturbation analysis around the cosmological horizon of Kerr-de Sitter space reveals a mixing between the dilaton and other fields. Introducing a gauge (dilaton gauge), we can disentangle this mixing completely and obtain ...

We study returns in dynamical systems: when a set of points, initially populating a prescribed region, swarms around phase space according to a deterministic rule of motion, we say that the return of the set occurs at the earliest moment when one of these points comes back to the original region. We describe the statistical distribution of these “first–return” times in various settings: when ph...

In an issue of the Wireless World magazine, back in 1945, A. C. Clarke on a letter to the editor wrote " However, I would like to close by mentioning a possibility of the remote future-perhaps half a century ahead... Three repeater stations, twelve degrees apart in the correct orbit, could give television and microwave coverage to the entire planet. " These words envisioned, before the space er...

Two states in the United States now have legislation requiring that laying hens be provided with sufficient space to perform particular behaviors. To provide a framework for translating these performance standards into a space requirement, kinematic analysis was used to measure the amount of space needed for White Leghorn hens to stand, turn around 180°, lie down, and wing flap. Hyline W-36 hen...