Abstract: Civil procedure rules (CPRs) in the English jurisdiction were introduced to restrain the adversarial and expensive litigation activities of the legal profession. Judges use case management to fix timetables for preaction ...

Abstract: Field investigation of infrastructure damage following the March 2011, Tohoku, Japan, Tsunami uncovered failure of numerous fuel storage containers as a result of the high inundation depths and velocities associated with ...

Abstract: This paper examines a commonly used procedure, proposed by Baecher, for separating the random measurement error associated with a particular test from the inherent spatial variability of the geological material. By comparing ...