Underground rock masses have shown a general trend of natural balance over billions of years of ground movement. Nonetheless, man-made underground constructions disturb this balance and cause rock stability failure. Fractured rock masses are frequently encountered in underground constructions, and this study aims to restore the strength of rock masses that have experienced considerable fracturi...

Rock-socketed pile is widely used in coastal wharf, Marine bridge, and power engineering, the end bearing function considered more design process. However, lateral friction resistance of rock-socketed piles an important part, load transfer mechanism pile–soft rock interface research focus. In this paper, a comparative analysis was adopted test, ten groups test specimens were made, including fiv...

Female rock musicians have had difficulty making it in the predominantly white male rock world. Joanne Gottlieb and Gayle Wald note that women’s participation in rock music usually consists of bolstering male performance, in the roles of groupie, girlfriend, or back-up singer (257). Even in punk rock, women are often treated as a novelty by the music press and cultural critics. Male bands such ...

—A nearly complete fossil skull, including the rostrum, of blue marlin, Makaira nigricans Lacepède, 1802 (Perciformes: Xiphioidei: Istiophoridae), was collected from the Oso Member (latest Miocene) of the Capistrano Formation, Mission Viejo, Orange County, California. The specimen is compared with extant and fossil istiophorids, and 19 of its 20 morphological variables are within the range of v...

A LENSOID mass of serpentinite is continuously exposed over some 650 m along the trace of the NNE.-trending Waipa Fault at Wairere (38~ 33" S., 175 ~ 2' E.) south of Te Kuiti (Fleming, 1948; O'Brien, I97O). Extensive quarrying of the deposit has revealed the presence of numerous highly-altered xenoliths of gabbro ranging in size from hand specimens to about 12o m a and exhibiting strongly groov...

Due to their stem-like characteristics and their resistance to existing chemo- and radiation therapies, there is a growing appreciation that cancer stem cells (CSCs) are the root cause behind cancer metastasis and recurrence. However, these cells represent a small subpopulation of cancer cells and are difficult to propagate in vitro. Glioblastoma is an extremely deadly form of brain cancer that...

Few researchers have looked at the mechanical characteristics of rocks that are composed numerous layers various kinds rock. Most strata in practical engineering composite strata, and fracture propagation is frequently to blame for mishaps. The digital image correlation method (DIC) acoustic emission (AE) equipment were used observe crack strike strain field changes specimens resemble with a co...