An accurate description of the load transfer behaviors geosynthetic-encased stone column (GESC) is great importance for revealing bearing capacity GESC. Static tests and shake table model were performed to characterize static dynamic composite foundation reinforced by Under loading, conducted on a fully (FGESC), partially (PGESC) traditional (TSC). The influence length stiffness encasement colu...

We analyze a well known type of puzzle in planar geometry: given a planar shape, it is required to find a cut that divides the shape into two identical parts (up to rotation and translation). Clearly not all shapes can be so dissected and for some shapes that appear in puzzles the cutting curve is quite surprising and difficult to find. In this paper we first analyze the inverse problem of asse...

R EFLECTANCECONFOCALMICROSCOPY(RCM) represents a novel technique for the in vivo visualizationoftheskinatanearlyhistologic resolution. We investigated the possibility of detecting Sarcoptes scabiei using RCM. Three patients with lesions suggestive of scabies were examined by RCM. On confocal images, S scabiei appeared as an ovoid body with a dorsal surface marked by refractive bristles and spin...

Coherent Deformable Model Yusuf Sinan Akgul Chandra Kambhamettu Maureen Stone Department of Computer and Information Sciences Division of Otolaryngology University of Delaware The University of Maryland Medical School Newark, Delaware 19716 Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Abstract We present a system that extracts and tracks 2D midsagital tongue surfaces from ultrasound image sequences produced by a ...

The motion of a stone skimming over a water surface is considered. A simplified description of the collisional process of the stone with water is proposed. The maximum number of bounces is estimated by considering both the slowing down of the stone and its angular stability. The conditions for a successful throw are discussed. © 2003 American Association of Physics Teachers. @DOI: 10.1119/1.151...

A new species of the genus Sarax Simon, 1892 is described from Panay Island, Philippines. Sarax curioi sp. n. is the second species of the genus from the country and can be distinguished from the other Philippine species (Sarax brachydactylus Simon, 1892) by the sclerotized granules of the pedipalp surface, the spines of the pedipalp distitibia, the number of denticles of the chelicerae claw an...

If the absolute number of poor people goes up, but the fraction of people in poverty comes down, has poverty gone up or gone down? The economist’s instinct, framed by population replication axioms that undergird standard measures of poverty, is to say that in this case poverty has gone down. But this goes against the instinct of those who work directly with the poor, for whom the absolute numbe...

Macrobrachium aemulum madhusoodani Pillai & Unnikrishnan (2013) was recently described based on material from the Neyyar River, Kerala, India as a new subspecies of M. aemulum (Nobili, 1906). As however, both species and subspecies names are considered part of the species-group for nomenclatorial purposes (ICZN, Art. 45.1), the name is a junior homonym of Macrobrachium madhusoodani Unnikrishnan...