An important aspect of planning for shallow tunneling under urban areas is the determination of likely surface movements and interaction with existing structures. Back analysis of built tunnels that their settlements magnitude is available, could aid the designers to have a more accuracy in future projects. In this paper, one single Tehran Metro Tunnel (at west of Hor square, Jang University St...

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Tourism gentrification, as a complex phenomenon in large urban destinations, is an important topic for future tourism professionals. The aim of this paper to offer digital cartography making activity based on the contemporary dynamics commercial transformation within gentrification contexts Madrid order facilitate its understanding. This innovative teaching accordance with sustainable pedagogy ...

OBJECTIVES To compare child pedestrian injury rates on one-way versus two-way streets in Hamilton, and examine whether the characteristics of child pedestrian injuries differ across street types. METHODS The rates of injury per child population, per kilometre, per year were calculated by age, sex and socio-economic status (SES). Child, environment and driver characteristics were investigated ...

1Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, U.S.A. 2Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, U.S.A. 3Southeastern Universities Research Association, 1201 New York Avenue, Washington, DC 20005, U.S.A. 4GoMOOS, 350 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101, U.S.A. 5Academy for Advanced Telecommunications, 3139 TAMU...

Introduction, and Discussion, and the answers The author certifies that he has no commercial associations (eg, consultancies, stock ownership, equity interest, patent/licensing arrangements, etc) that might pose a conflict of interest in connection with the submitted article. (Adapted with permission of Lippincott Williams and Wilkins from Brand RA. Writing for Clinical Orthopaedics and Related...

We performed this study to determine both positive and negative impacts on the health of sex workers working on the street. We conducted this study using key informant and focus group interviews in bars and streets in Mozambique. The interviewed sex workers were aware about the risks and protection against sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and they consistently used condoms. Most suffered...

OBJECTIVE To establish the prevalence of exposure to physical and sexual violence, mental health symptoms, and medical treatment-seeking behavior among three street-based subpopulation groups in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and to assess the association between sociodemographic group, mental health indicators, and exposure to violence. METHODS An anonymous, cross-sectional survey among randomly sel...

the paper investigates into the vibrational characteristics of the truck chassis including the natural frequencies and mode shapes. truck chassis forms the structural backbone of a commercial vehicle. when the truck travels along the road, the truck chassis is excited by dynamic forces caused by the road roughness, engine, transmission and more. modal analysis using finite element method (fem) ...