Ultrasonically assisted drilling of rocks by N.V. Mikhailova, P.Y. Onawumi, Anish Roy, Vadim Silberschmidt

“…To improve finish quality, ultrasonically assisted drilling (UAD) was employed in two rocks - sandstone and marble. Damage areas in both materials were reduced in UAD when compared to conventional drilling. …”
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Hydrogeology of three hard rock catchments in Britain by Mazadu Dader Bako

“…There is a dearth of hydro geological information on hard rock areas in Britain. This is because the general availability of surface water and extensive sedimentary aquifers has not encouraged ground water prospecting in hard rock areas. …”
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Sorption of Ni and Eu to granitic rocks and minerals by Fidelis Sameh Ebong

“…Normalising the results using the surface area showed that the CEC of the rock beakers was 6 orders of magnitude greater than that of the powdered sample. …”
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Integration of geophysical methods for groundwater exploration in hard rock areas : application to Alla Valley, Eritrea, NE Africa by Bereket M. Derie

“…The integrated use of Electromagnetic Ground Conductivity, Ground Electrical Resistivity and Seismic Refraction geophysics methods was made in Alia valley, Eritrea for the aim of developing a methodology best suited for ground water exploration in hard rock areas with limited professional and financial resources. …”
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The sub-prime crisis, the credit squeeze and Northern Rock: The lessons to be learnt by Maximilian Hall

“…This article briefly explains the background to these extraordinary events before setting out, in some detail, the tensions and flaws in UK arrangements which allowed the Northern Rock spectacle to occur. None of the interested parties – the Bank, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the Treasury – emerges with their reputation intact, and the policy areas requiring immediate attention, at both the domestic and international level, are highlighted. …”
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Some aspects of the hydrogeology of the crystalline basement complex rocks of South Western Nigeria by Isiaka Ayodele Owoade

“…This may be low compared with values quoted for sedimentary rock terrains, but in view of the present low level of water supply in the area, it is considered that exploitation of this resource would represent a significant improvement on the present situation. …”
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The sub-prime crisis, the credit squeeze, Northern Rock and beyond: the lessons to be learnt by Maximilian J.B. Hall

“…This article briefly explains the background to these extraordinary events before setting out, in some detail, the tensions and flaws in UK arrangements which allowed the Northern Rock spectacle to occur. None of the interested parties – the Bank, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the Treasury – emerges with their reputation intact, and the policy areas requiring immediate attention, at both the domestic and international level, are highlighted. …”
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The sub-prime crisis, the credit squeeze, Northern Rock and beyond: the lessons to be learnt by Maximilian J.B. Hall

“…This article briefly explains the background to these extraordinary events before setting out, in some detail, the tensions and flaws in UK arrangements which allowed the Northern Rock spectacle to occur. None of the interested parties – the Bank, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and the Treasury – emerges with their reputation intact, and the policy areas requiring immediate attention, at both the domestic and international level, are highlighted. …”
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The effectiveness of chalk as a friction modifier for finger pad contact with rocks of varying roughness by Benjamin Clarke, Katherine Tomlinson, Amitha Karunakaran, Ahranee Candan, Janet Slatter, Tom Slatter, Matt Carré, Roger Lewis

“…This novel work investigated the effectiveness of chalk as a friction modifier on four different rocks (sandstone, granite, dark limestone, and light limestone) typically found in areas of the U.K. where the sport of climbing is undertaken, with varying surface roughness. …”
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Linear scaling of precipitation-driven soil erosion in laboratory flumes by Seifeddine Jomaa, D. Andrew Barry, M. Rode, Graham Sander, J.-Y. Parlange

“…The proportionality between raindrop-driven soil erosion delivery and area of soil exposed to raindrops under a uniform precipitation rate was investigated in terms of individual size classes using laboratory flume experiments. …”
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Groundwater resources management in urban areas of Uganda: experiences and challenges by Callist Tindimugaya

“…The lack of sewerage systems in urban areas has also lead to construction of onsite sanitation systems in form of septic tanks and pit latrines, which have caused contamination of groundwater resources in many areas. …”
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Seismic response analysis of linear and nonlinear secondary structures by Stavros Kasinos

“…The case of bilinear hysteretic, rigid-plastic and free-standing rocking oscillators is first considered, as a representative class of secondary systems of distinct behaviour excited at a single point in the primary structure. …”
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Associations between sedentary behaviour and physical activity in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis by Natalie Pearson, Rock Braithwaite, Stuart J.H. Biddle, Esther M.F. van Sluijs, Andrew J. Atkin

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Learning the rules of a game: neural conditioning in human-robot interaction with delayed rewards by Andrea Soltoggio, Felix Reinhart, Andre Lemme, Jochen Steil

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Investigations of the role of colloids in radionuclide migration by Silvia Anton Gascon

“…The mobility of radionuclides through the Geosphere depends greatly on the sorption of radionuclides to the host rock. However, the presence of colloidal particles may influence the transport of radionuclides. …”
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Integrating bioinspired structures into the design of climbing shoes by Stephen Spurrier, Tom Allen, Robyn Grant

“…Climbing mammals use distinctive features on their feet to navigate challenging natural structures such as trees and rocks. Our previous work in this area involved the study of mammalian foot morphology, comparing rock climbing species to other with different locomotion modes [1]. …”
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Evidence for seasonal subglacial outburst events at a polythermal-based glacier, Finsterwalderbreen, Svalbard by Jemma Wadham, Richard Hodgkins, Richard Cooper, Martyn Tranter

“…Bulk meltwater hydrochemical data and suspended sediment concentrations suggest that this snowmelt accessed a chemical weathering environment characterized by high rock:water ratios and long rock–water contact times. …”
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Nutrient status of two Ghanaian water reservoirs by Kwadwo Ansong Asante

“…The Weija Reservoir, created in 1977 on the Densu River is about 116 km long. The Weija dam is a rock-and earth-filled structure located about 10 km from the mouth of the River Densu. …”
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Arresting the runoff: the final choice by Afera Asfaw

“…In the highland and midland areas, capped springs and hand-dug wells represent appropriate technical protection measures for the great majority of populations. …”
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Subsurface drainage technique (SDT) by Ahmad Sawalha, Sameera El Rifai

“…Cesspools tend to be built very close to houses, which exposes the residents to contaminated soil and groundwater. In rocky areas, the pores of the surrounding rock become periodically blocked by the sewage in the cesspool. …”
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Clay, conductivity, and rural water supplies. A hydrogeological investigation by Glenda McMahon, Gary Clarke

“…A strong, linear, positive correlation has been found between measured conductivity and smectite content in the rock. From this, rural groundwater potential has been inferred by counter-intuitively coming to the conclusion that areas of low conductivity are likely to hold groundwater in clay-bearing formations. …”
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The impact of ground-ice thaw on landslide geomorphology and dynamics: two case studies in northern Iceland by C Morino, SJ Conway, MR Balme, JK Helgason, Þ Sæmundsson, C Jordan, John Hillier, T Argles

“…Our study expands our knowledge of how landslides develop in unstable ice-cemented deposits, and will aid assessment and mitigation of the hazard that they pose in Iceland and other mountainous periglacial areas.…”
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Graham Greene: novels of the nineteen thirties by Robert Cunningham

“…This study deals with six novels published by Graham Greene in the nineteen thirties - Stamboul Train (1932), It's a Battlefield (1934), England Made Me (1935), A Gun for Sale (1936), Brighton Rock (1938) and The Confidential Agent (1939). For many years, these works of fiction were divided into two categories, novels and entertainments. …”
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Melt extract fibre reinforced composites by Simon A. Austin

“…The post-crack toughness was examined in terms of the area under the beam load/deflection curve and a computer programme was used to evaluate a variety of toughness indices. …”
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Debris-flow release processes investigated through the analysis of multi-temporal LiDAR datasets in north-western Iceland by Costanza Morino, Susan J. Conway, Matthew Balme, John Hillier, Colm J. Jordan, Thorsteinn Saemundsson, Tom Argles

“…Debris flows are fast-moving gravity flows of poorly sorted rock and soil, mixed and saturated with water. Debris-flow initiation has been studied using empirical and experimental modelling, but the geomorphic changes, indicative of different triggering processes, are difficult to constrain with field observations only. …”
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Songs, stories and selfhood: a critical humanist study of creativity and identity on an acoustic music scene by Mark Poole

“…The thesis focuses on three definable areas: firstly, the artistic creativity of music making itself; secondly, the creativity involved in the everyday managing of the musical identity, both in the domestic realm and in the music scene itself; and thirdly, the creative carving out or mapping of musical identities through the telling of individual life stories. …”
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Debris flow modelling for enhanced geohazard evaluation along the Bailong River corridor, Gansu, China by Kristine Thorkildsen Jarsve

“…Mass movements in rock and soil represent a major hazard in mountainous areas and may be triggered by tectonic activity, through gradual weathering and gravitational forces, or changes in pore-water pressures due to rainfall. …”
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Avoidance and aggregation create consistent egg distribution patterns of congeneric caddisflies across spatially variable oviposition landscapes by Jill Lancaster, Barbara J Downes, Rebecca E Lester, Stephen Rice

“…In naturally occurring oviposition landscapes (riffles with emergent rocks), we surveyed the spatial arrangement and environmental characteristics of all emergent rocks, identified and enumerated egg masses on each. …”
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Regional-scale drivers of groundwater faunal distributions by Tim Johns, J. Iwan Jones, Lee Knight, Louise Maurice, Paul Wood, Anne L. Robertson

“…The macrofaunal stygobiont species in our study area formed three groups: (1) Niphargus glenniei was recorded in a range of hydro- units but only in the west of the study area. (2) Niphargus kochianus , Niphargus fontanus, Proasellus cavaticus and Crangonyx subterraneus were predominately recorded in carbonate aquifers in the east of the study area. (3) Niphargus aquilex and Microniphargus leruthi, were found throughout the study area and in a range of hydro-units. …”
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Sanitary aspects of groundwater supplies in Ghana by Anthony T. Amuzu

“…Leachate from these diffuse sources probably, therefore, constitutes the most important source of pol­lution of groundwaters in the rural areas of the country. The concern here is that groundwaters, once contami­nated, are not easily restored as the source of contamina­tion may not be easily traced because of the complexity of flow of groundwaters in the fissures of the Basement Complex Rocks. …”
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Improving water quality assessment and supply by R.J. Bowell, M.A. Bwankuzo, J. Cowan, N. Kimaro, H.A. Mjengera, K. Terkhell, A. Warren, A. Wood

“…The aim of this paper is to describe the relationships between water chemistry and microbiological activity in protolith (collected below 30m, hosted by unweathered bedrock), regolith (above 30m, water hosted in the weathered rocks and soils) and alluvial hosted groundwaters in urban (Arusha district) and rural areas (Hanang, Mbulu and Babati districts) of the Arusha region, Tanzania. …”
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Investigating slow-moving landslides in the Zhouqu region of China using InSAR time series by Yi, Xingmin Meng, Colm J. Jordan, Alessandro Novellino, Tom Dijkstra, Guan Chen

“…In the Zhouqu region (Gansu, China) landslide distribution and activity exploits geological weaknesses in the fault-controlled belt of low-grade metamorphic rocks of the Bailong valley and severely impacts lives and livelihoods in this region. …”
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A model study of clay mobilisation and permeability reduction during oil reservoir flooding by S. Bakhsh

“…The literature from the areas of formation damage, colloidal suspensions, and deep bed filtration has been examined with particular attention being given to the subject of clay mineralogy. …”
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