This form of cerebellar degeneration may precede cancer. Alcoholic or nutritional cerebellar degeneration affects alcoholics and people with thiamine deficiency. It is not related to cancer and is more common than the paraneoplastic type.
Liquefaction is the process of loose soil acting like a liquid during an earthquake. Most of the time, buildings and homes are built upon solid bedrock.
Some examples of soil liquefaction include quicksand, quick clay, turbidity currents, and earthquake-induced liquefaction. Depending on the initial void ratio, the soil material can respond to loading either strain-softening or strain-hardening.