Abstract: This paper examines the concept of tsunami tendenko from the disciplinary perspective of sociology. Tendenko as a tsunami evacuation strategy advocates a rapid individual response to an imminent tsunami threat by moving ...

Abstract: Driven piles in calcareous sands may have only a small fraction of the capacity of driven piles in noncarbonate sands. This has become a particular problem in the offshore and coastal areas of Australia, India, Saudi Arabia, ...

Abstract: The problem of predicting the orientations of falling nonspherical particles has been addressed by the construction of a heuristic model that assumes the particles are subject to isotropic turbulence within or below the ...

Abstract: Over the past 20 years many Malaysian students have chosen to leave their country and come to the United States for an engineering education. Reasons for this include: (1) insufficient local universities, (2) the need for ...

Abstract: Following the passage of hurricane Betsy (1965) through the Gulf of Mexico two flights were made five days apart aboard a research aircraft to collect sea-surface temperatures with an infrared radiometer. The purpose was ...

Abstract: Investigations have shown various meteorological parameters which could be associated with high level turbulence. Two of these parameters are strong vertical wind shear and low stability. These and the Richardson Number ...

Abstract: A ?breadboard? model of the proposed satellite infrared spectrometer for the measurement of atmospheric temperature profiles was used in two experiments at ground level. These were designed to demonstrate the feasibility ...