Faulting and frictional plastic deformation

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » FAULTING AND FRICTIONAL PLASTIC DEFORMATION thus earthquake magnitude (Hanks and Kanamori, 1979), is limited by the frictional strength of the upper-crust. Upward-directed fault slip along the footwall scarp during an earthquake causes an...

Conservation status of New Zealand freshwater invertebrates 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Summary The conservation status of freshwater invertebrates was assessed using the New Zealand Threat Classification System (NZTCS) criteria (Townsend et al. 2008). This is the first freshwater invertebrate list to be prepared under...

METHODOLOGY AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHOICE OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE The language used in this project is hypertext preprocessor (PHP).The choice of hypertext preprocessor (PHP) was because it is an object-oriented language meaning you do not have to start...

Developing the force-displacement relationship of a controlled rocking wall

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » EXPERIMENT DETAILS The Wight study subjected 7 full-scale single storey PCM walls to a range of in-plane base excitations using the shake table at North Carolina State University. This was followed by a...

Space geodetic techniques and their data applications 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Space geodetic techniques and their data applications Introduction The launch of artificial satellites as early as 1957 has presented an unprecedented prospect of using the long period of available satellite data to study...

IN SILICO MINING OF THE NAMIB DESERT HYPOLITH METAGENOMIC DATASET

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » INTRODUCTION The use of renewable sources of energy as alternatives to fossil fuels is the focus of world efforts at sustainable energy development. Consequently, lignocellulosic biomass has been harnessed as a renewable feedstock...

Shear strength of planar joint surfaces in rock

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Objectives of the study The engineering characteristics of rocks and particularly, the shear strength of joints (discontinuities) in rock masses playa key role in civil engineering and specifically in the design and safety...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and policing in South Africa

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » A spatial information system for crime Schwabe (2000) investigated the use of information management systems within the SAPS and found that the SAPS’ management had committed itself to the implementation of information systems,...

Cross-case analysis of manifestations of metacognitive activity

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Research paradigms Guba and Lincoln (1994) define a paradigm as a set of basic beliefs or assumptions that define for its holder the nature of the world or reality (ontology), the individual’s place...

Major Element and Strontium Isotope Geochemistry

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » U-Pb Ages of Zircon from Selected Plutons The mineral zircon (ZrSiO4) is an ideal geochronometer (Rollinson, 1993). During crystallization, zircon takes uranium into its crystal structure, which naturally decays to form its daughter...