objective: endothelium is a selective and permeable membrane for transferring nutrients and vital components to arterial wall. endothelial damage might lead to altered biological function of endothelium and clinical consequences such as atherosclerosis. blood pressure pulse always exerts circumferential tension to the arterial wall. hence, such tension together with other loads, play important ...

fuzzy groups and fuzzy theory have a lot of applications in several sciencessuch as mathematics, computer science, computer and electrical engineering.hence, counting the number of fuzzy subgroups of finite groups to classify them isan important issue in fuzzy theory. the main goal of this paper is to give an explicitformula for the number of fuzzy subgroups of a finite cyclic groupg z p1 z p 2...

the electrochemical behavior of nifedipine (i), nitrendipine(ii) and their photodegradation products has been studied by employing electrochemical techniques in chloroform and in 1:4 mixture of chloroform-isopropanol using piperidinium perchlorate (ppc) as supporting electrolyte. it has been shown that i and ii undergo in a 4e, 4h+ irreversible reduction reaction, while the reduction product, p...

Based on an improvement project of soft soil ground in Zhuhai City the Pearl River Delta, a comparative study vacuum preloading and surcharge was performed. The stratified settlements, excess pore water pressure, degrees consolidation are analyzed, along with horizontal displacement strength. results show that smaller secondary settlements than preloading. Primary settlement quickly increases i...

The high volume and unfavorable properties of high-water-content slurries make their treatment difficult costly. Improving the through prefabricated drains combined with surcharge or vacuum preloading represents an environmental economic means reusing these as subsoil. As conventional methods are inefficient in dealing low-permeability slurries, flocculation is often applied. In this study, inf...

Stormwater management using water sensitive urban design is expected to be part of future drainage systems. This paper aims to model the combination of local retention units, such as soakaways, with subsurface detention units. Soakaways are employed to reduce (by storage and infiltration) peak and volume stormwater runoff; however, large retention volumes are required for a significant peak red...

When applying axial load on piles subjected to negative skin friction (NSF), the yielded NSF is gradually eliminated. The process is notably influenced by the tip location (Y) and still a lack of understanding. This paper reports three-dimensional numerical simulations with tip locations Y = 1.00 pile diameter (D), 0.25D, 0.00D, and -1.00D. It is found that, against expectations, the dragload a...