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Geotechnical investigation of soil properties in Hatsalatladi village, Botswana; Insights from aeromagnetic, laboratory soil tests and Rayleigh wave dispersion datasets

Soil tests and Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) data were conducted in Hatsalatladi village, Botswana, to investigate the occurrence of ground fissures within the village and to identify the likely causes of the fissures and their depth extent. The MASW data were collected to gain insights into the variation of shear wave velocity with depth. The dataset shows that the shear wave velocity ranged from 150 m/s – 500 m/s, with Poisson's ratios ranging from 0.02 to 0.25. A low-velocity zone (LVZ) was observed in the upper 5 m of the subsurface with velocities ranging from 200 m/s to 350 m/s.The soil plasticity was measured through the plastic and liquid Atterberg tests. Atterberg limits measurements obtained from the three survey sites show that the plastic index of the soil samples collected from depths of 1 m fall within the 10–20% range. Specifically, the Filled Crack survey site had a plastic index of 16%, while the Abandoned House and Bridge sites had 18.7% and 13.5%, respectively. Soil samples from Filled Crack and Abandoned House site revealed a linear shrinkage of 6.4%, while the Bridge site soil sample had a linear shrinkage of 2.9%. The sieve analysis test results are also presented

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Human brains develop across the life span and largely vary in morphology. Adolescent collision-sport athletes undergo repetitive head impacts over years of practices and competitions, and therefore may exhibit a neuroanatomical trajectory different from healthy adolescents in general. However, an unbiased brain atlas targeting these individuals does not exist. Although standardized brain atlases facilitate spatial normalization and voxel-wise analysis at the group level, when the underlying neuroanatomy does not represent the study population, greater biases and errors can be introduced during spatial normalization, confounding subsequent voxel-wise analysis and statistical findings. In this work, targeting early-to-middle adolescent (EMA, ages 13-19) collision-sport athletes, we developed population-specific brain atlases that include templates (T1-weighted and diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging) and semantic labels (cortical and white matter parcellations). Compared to standardized adult or age-appropriate templates, our templates better characterized the neuroanatomy of the EMA collision-sport athletes, reduced biases introduced during spatial normalization, and exhibited higher sensitivity in diffusion tensor imaging analysis. In summary, these results suggest the population-specific brain atlases are more appropriate towards reproducible and meaningful statistical results, which better clarify mechanisms of traumatic brain injury and monitor brain health for EMA collision-sport athletes.</p