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Liquefaction is a secondary hazard that occurs during earthquakes and can cause severe damage to overlying infrastructure. As a result, liquefaction can be a significant contributor to loss due to earthquakes as observed during the 2011 New Zealand earthquakes or the 1995 Kobe e…

Selective robustness is a key feature of biochemical networks, conferring a fitness benefit to organisms living in dynamic environments. The (in-)sensitivity of a network to external perturbations results from the interaction between network dynamics, design, and enzyme kinetics…

Tornadoes are an extremely devastating natural hazard with significant consequences but are not considered in current structural design codes. This is due to their low probability of occurrence making them what has been termed a low-occurrence high-consequence event. This thesis…

For 50 years, significant investments have been made to develop models that predict soil liquefaction. Many of the results may be described as either: (i) wholly empirical models that require only geologic or geospatial data, and which are accessible to a broad userbase; or (ii)…

Historians of women have long depended on legal sources to reconstruct the details of women's experience, but their efforts have often been undertaken without adequate knowledge of the way the law works. This project focuses on girls, married women, widows, and sexually active s…