The work is a primary approach to grab attention on probability of liquefaction hazard in Rangpur City Corporation area. The investigated area of Rangpur was suspected to have high liquefaction potential since the foundation soil consists of loose sandy silt with a very shallow aquifer. Standard Penetration Test (SPT), which follows the general format of the Seed-Idriss simplified procedure for...

Experimental assessment of the reverse algorithms that enable the extraction of plastic properties from the load–depth of penetration curves was conducted. Results show that they predict the stresses at 3.3% and 5.7% representative strains for Berkovich and 60 cone-equivalent three-sided pyramidal indenters, respectively, with good accuracy. It was shown that the uniaxial stress–strain curves c...

Overcoming the barrier function of the skin already poses a great challenge to modern drug delivery systems, but no less important are safety and tolerability aspects. In the past, many common drug penetration enhancement strategies turned out to destroy the natural barrier function of the skin and cause irritations and other partially severe side-effects. Therefore, right from the beginning MI...

Thanks to policy incentives in a growing number of jurisdictions, wind and photovoltaics have become the two fastest growing energy sources in the world. They are now dominated by global corporations with the resources to support their installations with the reliability demanded by the electric utility industry. To date, most of this growth has been targeted at continent-scale electric grids, w...

Maurocalcine is a highly potent cell-penetrating peptide isolated from the Tunisian scorpion Maurus palmatus. Many cell-penetrating peptide analogues have been derived from the full-length maurocalcine by internal cysteine substitutions and sequence truncation. Herein we have further characterized the cell-penetrating properties of one such peptide, MCaUF1-9, whose sequence matches that of the ...

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We introduce a new simulation platform called Insight, created to design and simulate cyber-attacks against large arbitrary target scenarios. Insight has surprisingly low hardware and configuration requirements, while making the simulation a realistic experience from the attacker’s standpoint. The scenarios include a crowd of simulated actors: network devices, hardware devices, software applica...

Penalty approaches can be used to efficiently resolve collisions of dynamically simulated rigid and deformable objects. These approaches compute penalty forces based on the penetration depth of intersecting objects and there exist many algorithms for estimating the exact penetration depth. However, in discrete-time simulations, this information can cause non-plausible collision responses in cas...

Studies on the adoption of innovations by companies generally include micro-level and mesolevel variables in order to explain a company’s receptiveness to innovations. This study adds to the literature by investigating the role of macro-level variables (i.e. national culture) to explain differences in innovation penetration levels and adoption decisions by companies across national cultures. A ...