Legend: O-CTR= open carpal tunnel release, E-CTR= endoscopic carpal tunnel release, CSA= cross sectional area, MN-UA: distance between the median nerve and ulnar neurovascular bundle, US= ultrasound, SD=standard deviation, p values < 0.05 were considered as statistically significant and are highlighted with bold. Table 1. Overview of the data from the preoperative ultrasound evaluation of the p...

Rockburst is a type of dynamic instability failure phenomenon and frequently brings huge losses to underground engineering projects such as mines tunnels. In order explore rockburst mechanisms predict rockbursts better, relying on the background Wulaofeng deep-buried highway tunnel, in situ stress measurement was performed using new wireless devices, mechanics tests surrounding rock samples tak...

With the development of construction technology and material, more super high-rise buildings will be constructed in future. In a specific metropolitan area, building with various cross-section high side ratio have to been designed due size limitation site. This kind is also very prone wind excitations. this research, tunnel tests for practical case surrounding were carried out atmospheric bound...

Driven by progress in sensor technology, computer software and data processing capabilities, terrestrial laser scanning has recently proved a revolutionary technique for high accuracy, 3D mapping and documentation of physical scenarios and man-made structures. Particularly, this is of great importance in the underground space and tunnel construction environment as surveying engineering operatio...

In order to solve the water sealing problem of soil between pipes of long distance curved pipe-jacked technology, Freeze-Sealing Pipe Roof (FSPR) as an innovative pre-supporting method in tunnel engineering is being applied to the Gongbei Tunnel in the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge. The definition of FSPR is that large diameter steel pipes are laid out in a circle around the cross section of tu...

Analysis of advanced displacement in construction progress of tunnel excavation with weak surrounding rock is carried out by numerical method and comparison of model test result. In allusion to the problems of regional landslides and extruded large-deformation seriously impacting the stability of rock mass in construction process of large-section tunnel with weak surrounding rock, the elastic-p...

With the trend of variable cross-sections for long-span bridges from truss-stiffened to quasi-streamlined, and then to multiple-box cross-section geometries, the importance of aeroelastic performance is becoming increasingly significant in wind-resistant design. This article shows that there is clearly insufficient qualitative as well as quantitative understanding of turbulence effects on bridg...

Accurate measurements of particles masses, couplings and widths are possible by measuring production cross sections near threshold. We discuss the prospects for performing such measurements at a high luminosity muon collider.

Results on the cross section measurement of Z boson pair–production at LEP 1,2 are presented. The more general case of neutral–current four–fermion production and the particular case of ZZ events enriched in b quarks are also discussed. All the results agree with the Standard Model predictions.

)We have found the use of a Ga+ based focused ion beam (FIB) system to be very useful in characterizing our superconducting-insulating-superconducting (SIS) fabrication process. This tool enables us to physically carve cross sections in any feature of interest on our wafer which we can then image with an SEM. This process is used to examine and monitor improvements in the coverage of metalizati...