Wall displacements and ground pressure acting on the lining of a tunnel increase with time. These time-dependent deformations are both due to face advance effect and to the time-dependent behavior of the rock mass.  Viscoelastic materials exhibit both viscous and elastic behaviors. Thorough this study, the effect of different linear viscoelastic models including Maxwell, Kelvin and Kelvin-Voigt...

Study Links Use of Face Masks to Improved Cardiovascular Outcomes Air pollution from traffic and industrial sources increases cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, especially in populations with underlying cardiovascular disease. Environmental interventions to reduce pollution would be ideal, but their implementation may be hampered in countries where emissions reductions are trumped by econo...

Study Links Use of Face Masks to Improved Cardiovascular Outcomes Air pollution from traffic and industrial sources increases cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, especially in populations with underlying cardiovascular disease. Environmental interventions to reduce pollution would be ideal, but their implementation may be hampered in countries where emissions reductions are trumped by econo...

Condition on admission.?Patient deeply jaundiced, drowsy and restless. Puffiness of hands, face and feet. Rash pale pink, fine and slightly raised on face and neck. Pupils normal?reaction sluggish?no photophobia. No haemorrhages. Tongue coated, dry, tremulous and deep yellow. Abdomen?liver 1^ inches and spleen 1 inch below costal margin. Circulating system?heart normal?pulse 98, volume fair. Bl...

FACE TO FACE: FRANCO BELTRAMETTI AND JUDITH DANCIGER: A COUPLE OF TRANSLATORS
 In 1973 Franco Beltrametti, a Swiss author strictly connected to both the authors of Beat Generation and those Italian neo-avant-garde (Gruppo 63), published bilingual collection poems in English that he significantly titled Face face (Grosseteste, England). As stated book itself, versions are translations by hi...

The equations for the earthquake forces on a rigid dam with an inclined upstream face of constant slope are solved exactly by two-dimensional potential-flow theory. The distribution of the hydrodynamic pressure along the upstream face and the total horizontal, vertical and normal loads on the dam are computed from the integral solutions. The results obtained from the exact theory are compared w...

We present a surface-mountable miniature Fabry-Perot (FP) pressure sensor that utilizes the total internal reflection at a 45 degrees angled fiber end face to steer the optical axis by 90 degrees . By using the fiber as a waveguide, as well as a natural mask in photolithography, an FP cavity is constructed on the sidewall of the fiber. A polymer-metal composite diaphragm is employed as the pres...

X-ray diffraction data obtained under nonhydrostatic compression of a polycrystalline sample yield an estimate of the single-crystal elasticity tensor of the material when analyzed using appropriate equations. The analysis requires as input the aggregate shear modulus from independent measurements. The high-pressure elastic moduli of face-centered-cubic FeO, body-centered-cubic iron (a-Fe), and...