UNLABELLED Objective : Laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS) is the latest innovation in minimally invasive surgery with unconfirmed advantages. The public perception of LESS is the basis of carrying out the surgery. METHODOLOGY Participants from the outpatient department were invited to rate, on a 5-point Likert scale, the important factors including scar, complications, cost, pain and...

Site-bond percolation is a natural generalization of pure site percolation and pure bond percolation. The generalization allows both sites and bonds to be randomly occupied, with probabilities ps and pb respectively, in the case of random percolation. In particular, if pb = ps, site-bond percolation reduces to a pure site or pure bond percolation on a decorated lattice. It is also possible to i...

An integral part of this project was to conduct an investigation of the full scale septic system that has been operating continuously at Modern Landfill since 2000. The design of this system was described in detail in Spagnoli et al., (2001) This system provides an ideal test bed to evaluate the long-term acceptability of tire derived aggregate (TDA) as an alternative to stone as the system’s a...

Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Japan (NUMO) has proceeded with repository siting, since 2002, based on an “open solicitation procedure”. While waiting for volunteer municipalities and having no specific site geological information, NUMO has been preparing for expected assessments and designs at the investigation stage. One of the efforts for preparation is the dry run using hypothetic...

Background and objectives: Ferula assafoetida of Apiaceae family bears sesquiterpene coumarins from phenolic class. Studies have shown that phenolic compounds at physiological concentration can inhibit two groups of gelatinase matrix metalloproteinases. So, the ability of compounds of this plant to inhibit the enzymes mentioned above seems to be useful. Methods...

In recent years, the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) began to be widely used in the emergency investigation of major 15 natural hazards in a large area, but less for the single geo-hazard. Based on a number of successful practices in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China, a complete UAV-based emergency investigation method of single geo-hazard is concluded. Firstly, a customized UAV system consi...

α-amylase has been studied extensively from various sides. this enzyme is used in many industries .many applications of this enzyme have encouraged us for greater attempts on the study of α-amylase and to search for more effective processes. in this investigation, the structure of nanotube - catalytic site of bacillus subtilis α- amylase was optimized by hyperchem 7.0 and then it was investigat...

Humanoid robot walks by a pair of legs and works using two hands. About this humanoid robot, authors investigate about the possibility of its application to various works on site. Investigation is conducted by the following three methods. The first one is an investigation of matching the demand function of the latest work on the construction site with the performance which a humanoid robot hold...