Abstract: The recently launched California water price index (NASDAQ: NQH2O) and corresponding futures market provide an opportunity for water users to hedge against seasonal drought risk. While the volume of futures trading remains ...

Abstract: Like microelectronic circuits, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices are susceptible to damage by electrostatic discharge (ESD). At Sandia National Laboratories, polysilicon electrothermal MEMS ...

Abstract: The Atmospheric Science program at the University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee regularly offers the general education course Survey of Meteorology, serving over 400 students each year. This article describes a systematic inquiry ...

Abstract: Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is employed as a tool for understanding the environmental consequences of design decisions. In this study, DEA is applied to fifteen materials using six different ...

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Abstract: Many North American jurisdictions are creating walkable urban environments through compact Complete Streets (CS) geometric designs, while not addressing the mobility and accessibility of goods despite the essential role ...

Abstract: Dynamic nonlinear effective stress analysis of 45 well-documented liquefaction field case histories provides insights on the seismic response of sites where simplified liquefaction triggering procedures indicated liquefaction ...

Abstract: Several widely used field methods for estimating postliquefaction ground deformation are based on the laboratory data from one series of cyclic simple shear tests performed on one uniform clean sand reconstituted to three ...

Abstract: A cone penetration test (CPT)-based procedure to estimate liquefaction-induced ejecta severity is developed. The liquefaction ejecta demand parameter (LD) captures the amount of upward seepage pressure that can produce ...