The buried metallic pipelines for the transport of hydrocarbons, natural gas and chemical products are exposed to many stress factors. The main causes of these damages are the aggressive soil nature, ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. The narrow channel reservoir is a typical offshore reservoir in ...

This study assesses the effect of stone content on the stability of soil–rock mixture slopes and the dynamics of ensuing large displacement landslides using a material point strength reduction method.

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Machine learning has become a powerful tool for systems biologists, from diagnosing cancer to optimizing kinetic models and predicting the state, growth dynamics, or type of a cell. Potential ...

The visual environment provides vital cues allowing animals to assess habitat quality, weather conditions or measure time of day. Together with other sensory cues and physiological conditions, the ...

Security has always been a major concern for mankind. Today we have video surveillance cameras in schools, hospitals and every other public place to make us feel secured. According to a survey by HIS ...

Cats and dogs are assumed to drink similarly, but little is known about the actual physical mechanisms that dogs use to transport fluids when lapping. We observed the drinking behavior of a wide range ...

Proteins have been shown to exhibit strange/anomalous dynamics displaying non-Debye density of vibrational states, anomalous spread of vibrational energy, large conformational changes, nonexponential ...