the liquefaction resistance of soil can be evaluated using laboratory tests such as cyclic simple shear, cyclic triaxial, cyclic torsional shear as well as field methods like standard penetration test (spt), cone penetration test (cpt) and shear wave velocity (vs). in this regard, this study attempts to compare the results of the spt based on the simplified procedure proposed by seed and idriss...

Let $G$ be a connected graph on $n$ vertices. $G$ is called tricyclic if it has $n + 2$ edges, and tetracyclic if $G$ has exactly $n + 3$ edges. Suppose $mathcal{C}_n$ and $mathcal{D}_n$ denote the set of all tricyclic and tetracyclic $n-$vertex graphs, respectively. The aim of this paper is to calculate the minimum and maximum of eccentric connectivity index in $mathcal{C}_n$ and $mathcal{D}_n...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of location and size of chalazia on refractive error, corneal topography and visual acuity. methods: this randomized non-controlled clinical trial was conducted on patients with chalazion aged more than 3 years with minimum duration of one month. all patients underwent chalazion excision by the internal or external approach. results: two-hundred and fifty-three e...

background: diabetes is the most common endocrine disease. it has adverse effects on male reproductive function. royal jelly (rj) has antioxidant and anti-diabetic effects and show protective effects against diabetes. objective: this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of rj on histopathological alterations of the testicular tissue in streptozotocin (stz)-induced diabetic rats. materials...

the increasing tendency for health oriented products caused considerable research has studied on increase and maintaining quality of different products. sponge cake is one of the cereal products which itsmain problems arereterogradation and lack of soluble dietary fibers which has many health benefits. in this research, therefore, the effects of adding oat β-d-glucan on the physical properties ...

Economists have long argued that loan contracts should be indexed to remove the risks arising from fluctuations in the purchasing power of money: indexation however while eliminating one risk, substitutes another, arising from fluctuations in relative prices of goods. We present a theoretical framework which permits the relative merits of a nominal versus an indexed bond to be assessed in a gen...