An accurate theoretical model to predict the extent and mechanical behavior of excavation damage zone (EDZ) in surrounding rock deep-buried tunnel is great importance for practical engineering applications. Using elastic-plastic theory combined with analysis on stress characteristics rock, this paper present a EDZ formation evolution. A three-zone composite was established surround correspondin...

New research data for low-dose, low-linear energy transfer (LET) radiation-induced, stochastic effects (mutations and neoplastic transformations) are modeled using the recently published NEOTRANS(3) model. The model incorporates a protective, stochastic threshold (StoThresh) at low doses for activating cooperative protective processes considered to include presumptive p53-dependent, high-fideli...

Children interstitial lung (ChILD) disease is a large group of disorders with damage in alveolus and capillary. Although these disorders resemble ILD of adult in nomination, ChILD represents different pathologic and clinical patterns. A 2.5 months old girl, with failure to thrive and grunting and dyspnea, complained of staccato coughs without association with feeding, since she was 15 days o...

PURPOSE To evaluate the association between the watershed zone and glaucomatous optic nerve head (ONH) damage. METHODS We performed indocyanine green fluorescence angiography with a scanning laser ophthalmoscope in 54 eyes of 27 patients with normal tension glaucoma (NTG). RESULTS We identified 7 eyes of 8 patients (14.8%) with a watershed zone not including the ONH, 32 eyes of 20 patients ...