Dear Editor, Imaging-guided aspiration and drainage is a feasible alternative to surgery in the treatment of pelvic collections.1-10 Traditionally, interventional radiologists access the pelvic collections via transabdominal, transgluteal and endorectal approaches. The transabdominal approach usually entails long distances to the pelvic lesions and risks transgression of intervening viscera. Th...

In view of the high gas pressure and low permeability deep coal seam, it is difficult to control gas, which affects safety production mine. The technical scheme hydraulic fracturing improve seam put forward, drainage technology used emission seam. effect under different water pressure, gradient times, in situ stress analyzed by using 3DEC (3-Dimensional Distinct Element Code) discrete element s...

Emitted biosonar clicks and auditory evoked potential (AEP) responses triggered by the clicks were synchronously recorded during echolocation in an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) trained to wear suction-cup EEG electrodes and to detect targets by echolocation. Three targets with target strengths of -34, -28, and -22 dB were used at distances of 2 to 6.5 m for each target. The ...

Successful feeding and escape behaviors in fishes emerge from precise integration of locomotion and feeding movements. Fishes inhabit a wide range of habitats, including still ponds, turbulent rivers, and wave-pounded shorelines, and these habitats vary in several physical variables that can strongly impact both predator and prey. Temperature, the conditions of ambient flow, and light regimes a...

The experimental study and modeling of gravity drainage during Water Alternative Gas Injection, WAG process, in carbonate rock for one of the Iranian off-shore reservoir at lab-scale were carried out. The mechanism of gravity drainage during the WAG process, and its contribution to the oil recovery in the fract...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the sources, transport and distribution of hydrophobic organic contaminants produced in an urban area. Passive sampling devices (PSDs) were employed in the storm-water drainage of the city of Lahti, in an adjacent boreal lake (Vesijärvi) and along its shore. Samples were analysed for 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and 28 polychlorinated biphenyl...

Scaling laws that describe the structure of river networks are shown to follow from three simple assumptions. These assumptions are (1) river networks are structurally self-similar, (2) single channels are self-affine, and (3) overland flow into channels occurs over a characteristic distance (drainage density is uniform). We obtain a complete set of scaling relations connecting the exponents of...

background: complaining of tearing was found in some of our patients after phacoemulsification surgery for senile cataract. secondary acquired lacrimal drainage obstruction has been proposed to happen due to different causes. this study was performed at feiz hospital in isfahan, iran from september to december of 2004 to evaluate the effects of phacoemulsification surgery on tear drainage in ey...

the main objective followed in this research was to study some of the factors influencing water users' participation in management of the irrigation and drainage networks on the lands under jiroft dam. the kind of research method of the study was a descriptive- correlational one. the statistical population of the study consisted of all the water users of irrigation and drainage networks ac...