songs of the 1980s came to life here, in a pale beige ranch-style house perched on a bluff. Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Stevie Wonder, among others, made the pilgrimage to this recording studio on the “Emerald Isle” of the Caribbean. Perhaps they drew inspiration from the shimmering turquoise waters, or maybe their muse was the mountain looming in the southeast: the Soufrière Hills volcano....

Narrabri Coal Operations is longwall mining coal directly below a 15 to 20 m thick conglom‐ erate sequence expected to be capable of producing a windblast upon first caving at longwall startup and producing periodic weighting during regular mining. Site characterisation and field trials were undertaken to evaluate hydraulic fracturing as a method to precondition the conglomerate strata sufficie...

Geodesists are, for the most part, a patient and hardworking lot. A day spent hiking to a distant peak, hours spent waiting for clouds to clear a lineof-sight between observation points, weeks spent moving methodically along a level line – such is the normal pulse of the geodetic profession. The fruits of such labors are all the more precious because they are so scarce. A good day spent with an...

BACKGROUND Measurement of lumbar spine range of motion (ROM) is often considered to be an essential component of lumbar spine physiotherapy and orthopedic assessment. The measurement can be carried out through various instruments such as inclinometers, goniometers, and etc. Recent smartphones have been equipped with accelerometers and magnetometers, which, through specific software applications...

The Antares project aims to build a deep-sea Cherenkov Telescope for High Energy Neutrino Astronomy located in the Mediterranean Sea. The experiment, currently in the construction phase, has recently achieved an important milestone : the operation of a prototype line and of a line with monitoring instruments. These deployments allowed a thorough understanding of environmental parameters. http:/...

Shale gas extraction involves the drilling of organic-rich, lowpermeability shale and then stimulation of hydraulic fractures that allows gas to be produced. Methane in aquifers located above the shale strata, for instance, in Pennsylvania, United States, has been attributed by some to be the result of contamination caused by the hydraulic fracturing process. The work by Osborn et al. (1) descr...

Heavy movable bridges have different design, operation and maintenance characteristics compared to fixed bridges. This is mainly due to the complex interaction between their structural, mechanical and electrical systems. Movable bridges are viable options in certain terrain conditions and their unique operation provides versatility. At the same time, their intricate interrelation also produces ...

This paper employs a case history to describe deployment of new TDR cable and communication technologies to monitor stability. It involves remotely monitoring possible sinkhole-induced deformation near a “land bridge” installed over a recent subsidence event. A TDR cable was installed horizontally along with more typical vertical cables to detect possible subsidence induced shearing. In additio...