Great earthquakes occurring in mountainous areas can trigger large-scale landslides, leading to serious geological disasters.Thus, in recent years, especially after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, much attention has been focused on the research about regional risk assessment of seismic landslides in China and elsewhere in the world.Such study is base

Diseases of the urinary bladder have high incidence rates and burden healthcare costs.Their pharmacological treatment involves systemic and local drug administration.The latter is generally accomplished through instillation of liquid formulations and requires repeated or long-term catheterization that is associated with discomfort, inflammation and

The torsion pendulum at the heart of the apparatus to measure the gravitational constant, $G$ at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) is used to measure the gravitational torque between source and test-mass assemblies with two methods.In the Cavendish method, the pendulum moves freely.In the electrostatic-servo method, the pendulum