Cone penetration resistance in sands with fines contents up to 35% is explored through drained cylindrical cavity expansion simulations with a modified MIT-S1 constitutive model. The constitutive model is calibrated to sands with 0%, 10%, 20%, and 35% low-plasticity fines with data from constant volume direct simple shear, drained and undrained triaxial compression, shear wave velocity, and 1D-...

Although numerous reports show that the sensitivity of the S cone system is decreased in diabetic patients, few studies have been directed toward identifying the possible sites of the sensitivity loss. In this study, a psychophysical technique was used to test hypotheses about sites of S cone system sensitivity loss in a group of patients with early diabetic retinopathy. A model of the S cone s...

The classical family of Wishart distributions on a cone of positive definite matrices and its fundamental features are extended to a family of generalized Wishart distributions on a homogeneous cone using the theory of exponential families. The generalized Wishart distributions include all known families of Wishart distributions as special cases. The relations to graphical models and Bayesian s...

In this article, we give a partial description of the sandpile group of the cone of the cartesian product of graphs in function of the sandpile group of the cone of their factors. Also, we introduce the concept of uniform homomorphism of graphs and prove that every surjective uniform homomorphism of graphs induces an injective homomorphism between their sandpile groups. As an application of the...