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• Corporate governance, accountability and mechanisms of accountability : an overview 

  Brennan, Niamh ; Solomon, J. (Jill) (Emerald, 2008)

  Purpose – This paper reviews traditional corporate governance and accountability research, to suggest opportunities for future research in this field. The first part adopts an analytical frame of reference based on theory, ...
• Reconciliation of contrasting theories for fracture spacing in layered rocks 

  Schöpfer, Martin P. J. ; Arslan, Arzu ; Walsh, John J. ; Childs, Conrad (Elsevier, 2011-04)

  Natural and man-made brittle layers embedded in a weaker matrix and subjected to layer-parallel extension typically develop an array of opening-mode fractures with a remarkably regular spacing. This spacing often scales ...
• The Influence of Statistical Spatial Repeatabiliy on Remaining Pavement Life 

  O'Brien, Eugene J. ; Taheri, A. (Research Publishing Services, 2010-08)

  A road develops permanent deformation and fatigue damage because of the strains induced in its structure by surface loading and environmental change. A mechanistic-empirical approach is implemented here to simulate the ...
• Characteristics and mechanisms of phosphate adsorption on dewatered alum sludge 

  Yang, Y. ; Zhao, Y.Q. ; Babatunde, A.O. ; Wang, L. ; Ren, Y.X. ; Han, Y. (Elsevier, 2006-09)

  The adsorption characteristics of phosphate adsorption on the dewatered alum sludge were identified as a function of pH and ion strengths in solution. In addition, adsorption mechanisms were investigated by conducting batch ...
• Wave-like modelling of cascaded, lumped, flexible systems with an arbitrarily moving boundary 

  O'Connor, William (Elsevier, 2011-06-20)

  This paper considers cascaded, lumped, flexible systems, which may be short and non-uniform, which are driven by an arbitrarily moving boundary. Such systems exhibit vaguely wavelike behaviour yet defy classical wave ...
• Use of a genetic algorithm to perform reliability analysis of unsaturated soil slopes 

  Gavin, Kenneth ; Xue, Jianfeng (Institution of Civil Engineers, 2009-08)

  Rainfall induced landslides are a major cause of disturbance to transport networks in many parts of the world. In slopes where the water table is some depth below the ground surface, negative pore water pressure (suctions) ...
• The impact of porosity and crack density on the elasticity, strength and friction of cohesive granular materials : insights from DEM modelling 

  Schöpfer, Martin P. J. ; Abe, Steffen ; Childs, Conrad ; Walsh, John J. (Elsevier, 2009-02)

  Empirical rock properties and continuum mechanics provide a basis for defining relationships between a variety of mechanical properties, such as strength, friction angle, Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio, on the one hand ...
• Density functional theory description of the mechanism of ferromagnetism in nitrogen-doped SnO2 

  Long, Run ; English, Niall J. (Elsevier, 2009-12-28)

  Based on first-principles calculations, we have studied the occurrence of spin polarization in the magnetic metal oxide SnO2 doped with nonmagnetic nitrogen (N) impurities. It was found that the local magnetic moments are ...