in this study, the mechanical behavior of vanyar dam was evaluated at the end of construction. a two-dimensional numerical analysis was conducted based on a finite element method on the largest cross-section of the dam. the data recorded by the instruments located in the largest cross-section were compared with the results of the numerical analysis at the place of instruments. the settlement, p...

THE 1959 Mental Health Act emphasises the need to integrate psychiatric patients with the community at large rather than to isolate them from it, as hitherto. This identification with the normal community has been the Ministry of Labour's approach to the employment of disabled people since the time of the Disabled Persons (Employment) <4ct of 1944. For the past 17 years all disabled people, whe...

Environmental factors that can affect the settlement rate of quagga mussel veligers include flow velocity, water temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), conductivity, total organic carbon (TOC), and the surface roughness of monitoring substrates. In the present study, six artificial substrates, Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) plastic, High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) plastic, Concrete Und...

doi 10.1002/gea.21532 Fresh water availability was an important variable that influenced prehistoric human settlement on California’s northern Channel Islands. Previous attempts to understand settlement on the islands use watershed size as a proxy for water at canyon mouths. In semi-arid regions, this approach has limitations because streams may lose much or all of their flow to groundwater. We...

For rocky intertidal organisms, temperature is often considered the most influential factor governing early survival and growth. Nevertheless, our review of the literature revealed that few studies have manipulated temperatures in the field to test for effects on these critical early life history processes. Here, we present the results from a novel manipulation of substratum temperature using s...

Tubes constructed of different materials were used to examine the role of hydrodynamics and surface characteristics, as measured by contact angles, on larval attachment of marine polychaetes, bryozoans and barnacles. Tubes (10 mm inner diameter) of 7 different materials, ranging in contact angle from 25° to 113°, were used. Laboratory and field experiments were conducted using a range of flow r...

The process of shield tunnel excavation would inevitably cause surrounding ground movement, and excessive displacement in the soil could lead to large deformation even collapse tunnel. methods estimating convergence around opening is summarized. Then, a universal pattern boundary condition cavity originally introduced, which solved as combination three fundamental modes, namely, uniform converg...

Using underground space to store natural gas resources is an important means by which solve emergency peak shaving of gas. Rock salt storage widely recognized due its high-efficiency and environmental protection. Damage stress concentrations inside the cavern injection during withdrawal operations throughout facility life have always been among most safety issues. Therefore, accurate evaluation...

The West Coast of the United States experienced variable and sometimes highly unusual oceanographic conditions between 2012 and 2015. In particular, a warm mass of surface water known as the Pacific Warm Anomaly (popularly as "The Blob") impinged on southern California in 2014, and warm-water conditions remained during the 2015 El Niño. We examine how this oceanographic variability affected del...