The undrained shear strength of clay is an important parameter for the design embankments, shallow foundations, and pile foundations. Among various methods testing strength, simple essential when shearing mode soil surrounding similar to that in a test. This study employs series tests with Berkeley apparatus. Three reconstituted natural clays one artificial were tested range coefficients consol...

We examined the relationship between stress hormone (cortisol) release and acquisition and consolidation of conditioned fear learning in healthy adults. Participants underwent acquisition of differential fear conditioning, and consolidation was assessed in a 24-h delayed extinction test. The acquisition phase was immediately followed by an 11-min psychosocial stress period (arithmetic test comb...

Vertical drains and stone columns which have been used in infrastructure construction for highways, ports, coastal regions, etc., provide significant benefits for improving soil characteristics such as reducing the drainage length and accelerating the consolidation process. So the investigation of the radial consolidation is inevitable. Soils may be subjected to cyclic loading such as silos, ta...

1. introduction the phenomenon of land consolidation has been the concern of economists, geographers, soil scientists, anthropologists, and politician in the last decades. it has achieved little success for agricultural development in iran. most of iranian land consolidation schemes ignore to meet sustainability criteria as a critical phase in the planning process. therefore, they have caused m...

abstract at present study constant rate of strain (crs) consolidation under non-darcy condition was investigated. in this study a governing conditions of drainage pore water were investigated using proposed equation. the crs experiments under different rates of strain were conducted on different soil samples. results these experiments and there comparison with proposed equation showed that flow...

So far, studies that investigated interference effects of post-learning processes on episodic memory consolidation in humans have used tasks involving only complex and meaningful information. Such tasks require reallocation of general or encoding-specific resources away from consolidation-relevant activities. The possibility that interference can be elicited using a task that heavily taxes our ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the efficacy of three additional cycles of chemotherapy in patients with the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Stage III or IV, who achieved a complete response after six cycles of intravenous adjuvant paclitaxel/carboplatin after surgery. METHODS The clinical data of 94 patients with complete response after six cycles of adjuvant paclitaxel/carbopla...

We investigated the effects of (S)-3,5-DHPG, a selective agonist of group I metabotropic glutamate receptors (I mGluRs), on certain behaviors in rats after short-term hypoxia as a model of experimentally induced amnesia. The effect of (S)-3,5-DHPG administered intracerebroventriculary (icv) at doses of 0.01, 0.1 and 1.0 nmol was assessed using behavioral tests: the open field test, the passive ...