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...

the debate over the contribution of the internet to democracy is farfrom settled. some point to the empowering effects of online discussionand fund raising on recent electoral campaigns in the us to argue thatthe internet will restore the public sphere. others claim that the internetis just a virtual mall, a final extension of global capitalism into everycorner of our lives. this paper argues f...

1 Lamb SE, Marsh J, Hutton J, Nakash R, Cooke MW, on behalf of the Collaborative Ankle Support Trial (CAST Group). Mechanical supports for acute, severe ankle sprain: a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet 2008; 373: 575–81. 2 Jones MH, Amendola AS. Acute treatment of inversion ankle sprains: immobilization versus functional treatment. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2007; 455: 169...

Phrases like 'a pleasant three days', which take the obligatory form Article + Adjective + (Plural) Numeral + (Plural) Noun (AANN), present a problem for English nominal syntax. Typically, the English indefinite article A(N) is incompatible with either numerals or plural nouns; however, in AANN phrases, this cooccurrence is obligatory. This problem has remained largely unaddressed in the litera...

Knowledge organisation systems (KOS) across libraries in German speaking countries have always struggled with a lack of homogeneity and consistent subject indexing. Various tools have been developed to map different KOS, either manually or through algorithms which allow for automatic or semi-automatic mapping 1 , 2 , 3 . Considering the complexity and variety of KOS, there is a need for an over...

Received 1 February 2002; accepted 2 November 2002. The Camfield Estates–MIT Creating Community Connections project has been a true team effort. Leadership at Camfield Estates consists of Paulette Ford, CTA President, and Nakia Keizer, Project Leader and MIT Reflective Community Practitioner, along with the following board members and advisors: Constance Terrell, Malissa Evans, Luon Williams, E...

abstract due to low spatial resolution or simplifying of some micrometeorological phenomena, atmospheric general circulation models are not able to give a good estimation for weather conditions over study area. so their outputs should downscale into weather stations scales. in this research data of hadcm3 downscaled by using lars-wg5 with three scenarios, confirmed by ipcc including a1b, a2 and...