this paper presents the results of a series of monotonic and post-cyclic triaxial tests carried out on a clay specimen and three types of clay-sand mixed specimens. the focus of the paper is on the post-cyclic mechanical behavior of the mixed specimens, as compared to their monotonic behavior. analyses of the tests results show that cyclic loading degrade undrained shear strength and deformatio...

mixed clayey soils occur as mixtures of sand (or gravel) and clay in widely varying proportions. their engineering behavior has not been comprehensively studied yet. an experimental program, comprising monotonic, cyclic, and post-cyclic triaxial tests was undertaken on compacted clay-granular material mixtures, having different proportions of clay and sand or gravel. this paper presents the res...

We study and compare different neural network learning strategies: batch-mode learning, online learning, cyclic learning, and almost-cyclic learning. Incremental learning strategies require less storage capacity than batch-mode learning. However, due to the arbitrariness in the presentation order of the training patterns, incremental learning is a stochastic process; whereas batch-mode learning...

We present a practical and e cient garbage collection mechanism for large scale distributed systems The mechanism collects all garbage including distributed cyclic garbage without global synchronization or back ward links The primary method used for local and remote garbage collection is timeouts each object has a time to live and clients which have a link to an ob ject must refresh the target ...

In this work, we studied the conditions of deposition of a semipermeable polyphenylenediamine (PPD)-based membrane on amperometric disk platinum electrodes. Restricting an access of interfering substances to the electrode surface, the membrane prevents their impact on the sensor operation. Two methods of membrane deposition by electropolymerization were compared-at varying potential (cyclic vol...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to evaluate, in vitro, the tensile bond strength to dentin of Scotchbond Universal (SU), All-Bond Universal (AU) and One Coat 7 Universal (OC7) adhesives applied in self-etch mode, after 24 h of storage and after 500,000 loading cycles, using Clearfil SE Bond (SE) as a control. MATERIALS AND METHODS The adhesives were applied on the dentin of bovine teeth, followed by th...

‎‎a natural generalization of two dimensional cyclic code ($t{tdc}$) is two dimensional skew cyclic code‎. ‎it is well-known that there is a correspondence between two dimensional skew cyclic codes and left ideals of the quotient ring $r_n:=f[x,y;rho,theta]/_l$‎. ‎in this paper we characterize the left ideals of the ring $r_n$ with two methods and find the generator matrix for two dimensional s...

The mode of action of papaverine on smooth muscle relaxation was examined through analyzing its effects on caffeine-induced contraction of guinea pig taenia coli, which might be due to calcium ion mobilized from intracellular store sites. Caffeine contraction induced in normal solution at 32 degrees C was decreased in the presence of papaverine but increased after the removal of papaverine, and...

Due to their Shannon-limit-approaching performance and low-complexity decoding, low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have been used for forward error correction in a broad-range of communication and storage systems. In addition to its low-complexity, the iterative decoding algorithm used for decoding LDPC codes is inherently parallel. To exploit the parallelism at a larger extent, a significan...

A thin-film electrochemical sensor electrode capable of electrolytic conductivity, cyclic voltammetry, and temperature measurements of electrolyte solutions has been fabricated and characterized. The electrode fabrication and calibration is detailed, showing accuracies of 6 % for electrolytic conductivity measurements over the range of 0.1–100 mS cm 1 and temperature measurement within 2 C from...