A comprehensive review of geotechnical implications of floods and water-driven disasters.

Past experiences with water-related natural disasters, including floods, and their adverse consequences, such as significant loss of life and economic burdens, underscore the critical need to identify and understand geotechnical phenomena that trigger failures and amplify detrimental effects. This review synthesizes and examines key factors influencing geotechnical issues arising from water-based extreme events, such as hurricanes and floods. These factors comprise seepage forces, shear- and liquefaction-induced scour, excessive pore water pressure, soil stratigraphy, and hydraulic boundary conditions (e.

The reverse quantum limit and its implications for unconventional quantum oscillations in YbB.

The quantum limit in a Fermi liquid, realized when a single Landau level is occupied in strong magnetic fields, gives rise to unconventional states, including the fractional quantum Hall effect and excitonic insulators. Stronger interactions in metals with nearly localized f-electron degrees of freedom increase the likelihood of these unconventional states. However, access to the quantum limit is typically impeded by the tendency of f-electrons to polarize in a strong magnetic field, consequently weakening the interactions.

Kinetic study of the phenolysis of O-methyl and O-phenyl O-2,4-dinitrophenyl thiocarbonates and O-ethyl 2,4-dinitrophenyl dithiocarbonate.

The reactions of a series of phenols with O-methyl O-2,4-dinitrophenyl thiocarbonate (MDNPTOC), O-phenyl O-2,4-dinitrophenyl thiocarbonate (PDNPTOC), and O-ethyl 2,4-dinitrophenyl dithiocarbonate (EDNPDTC) are studied kinetically in water, at 25.0 degrees C and an ionic strength of 0.2 M (KCl).