A study of factors impacting landslide displacement rates was conducted on the Ripley Landslide within Thompson River valley in British Columbia, Canada for International Programme Landslides’ project #202. Seasonal and multiyear changes atmospheric cause cyclic fluctuation matric suction vadose zone through to situ water content. The ingress moisture is shown contribute seasonal loss stability...

1. Unitary Geometry on Exceptional Cartan Domains In 1935, E.Cartan classified all symmetric bounded domains. He prived that there exit only six types of irreducible bounded symmetric domains in C. They can be realized as follows: RI(m,n) = {Z ∈ Cmn|I − ZZ ′ > 0, Z − (m,n) matrix} RIIp = {Z ∈ Cp(p+1)/2|I − ZZ ′ > 0, Z − symmetric matric of degree p} RIIIq = {Z ∈ Cq(q−1)/2|I − ZZ ′ > 0, Z − skew...

A sudden slope failure occurred in Manisa possibly due to the effect of water infiltration because a slightly damaged sewage pipe. Considering that there was no other evidence such as rainfall or any loading conditions trigger failure, laboratory investigation on soil’s unsaturated hydro-mechanical properties initiated. Slopes are naturally soils, and they may lose their stability with increase...

When measuring poverty in South Africa, much of the theoretical and empirical work has focused on money-metric measures poverty. The conventional approach been use a line sufficient to meet primary human needs, often derived from consumption, expenditure or income levels. This narrow perspective tended divert attention development economists towards pursuit growth, which associated with necessa...

Annual bluegrass (Poa annua L.) turf quality is reduced during periods of high temperature. To predict heat stress injury and develop improved prestress maintenance practices, an understanding of the seasonal variation in annual bluegrass heat tolerance and the influence of soil moisture on heat tolerance is crucial. Annual bluegrass growing in the field on a Drummer silty clay loam (fine silty...