Extended Abelian monopoles are investigated in SU(2) lattice gauge theory in three dimensions. Monopoles are computed by Abelian projection in several gauges, including the maximal Abelian gauge. The number Nm of extended monopoles in a cube of sizem3 (in lattice units) is defined as the number of elementary (13) monopoles minus antimonopoles in the cube (m = 1, 2, . . .). The distribution of 1...

Quantifying the deformation of biological tissues under mechanical loading is crucial to understand its biomechanical response in physiological conditions and important for designing materials and treatments for biomedical applications. However, strain measurements for biological tissues subjected to large deformations and humid environments are challenging for conventional methods due to sever...

[1] Despite the availability of weather radar data at high spatial (1 km) and temporal (5–15 min) resolution, ground‐based rain gauges continue to be necessary for accurate estimation of storm rainfall input to catchments during flash flood events, especially in mountainous catchments. Given economical considerations, a long‐standing problem in catchment hydrology is to establish optimal placem...

[1] Five shallow pressure gauges located in straits in the southern Indonesian islands were used to evaluate tsunami signals triggered by the earthquakes off the northwest coast of Sumatra in December 2004 and the south coast of Java in July 2006. Tsunami waves reached the pressure gauges around 5 to 6 hours after the 2004 earthquake; the largest waves arrived 10 to 23 hours later, with amplitu...

Sprayed FRP is a novel method developed at the University of British Columbia which has been very successful in repairing damaged structures is Sprayed FRP. The key to a successful and optimal usage of FRP in strengthening and rehabilitation is in our ability to understand and effectively engineer SubstrateFRP bond. In this paper, performance of FRP as a repair material is studied by structural...

A general covariant quantization of superparticle, Green-Schwarz superstring and a supermembrane with manifest supersymmetry and duality symmetry is proposed. This quantization provides a natural quantum mechanical description of curved BPStype backgrounds related to the ultra-short supersymmetry multiplets. Half-size commuting and anticommuting Killing spinors admitted by such backgrounds in q...

Researchers investigating climate change have used historical tide-gauge measurements from all over the world to investigate the changes in sea-level that have occurred over the last century or so. However, such estimates are a combination of any true sea-level variations and any vertical movements of the land at the specific tide-gauge. For a tide- gauge record to be used to determine the clim...