Article history: Received 26 August 2014 Received in revised form 1 December 2014 Accepted 1 December 2014 Available online 26 December 2014

The most widely accepted definition of health impact assessment (HIA), from a consensus conference in Gothenburg organised by the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) European Centre for Health Policy, defines HIA as ‘a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, programme or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution o...

This paper presents a procedure for assigning zone data to links in the context of a Geographic Information System (GIS) environment. This may be used for several applications; the one motivating this paper is the need to approximate how much secondary traffic is accessing the main street network from adjacent zones. This will then be used in models to predict the number of accidents on the mai...

Reinforced earth (RE) walls work as gravity-retaining structures which these composite rely on the self-weight of reinforced soil mass to resist lateral loads from pressure, surcharges vehicles, earthquakes, and water pressure. The type compacted backfill material at zone reinforcement length that was designed constructed has a capability form reinforced-soil provides sufficient stabilize overa...

Myocytes that survive in the epicardial border zone of the healing canine infarcted heart provide the substrate for inducible reentrant ventricular arrhythmias. These myocytes have been shown to have altered Ca currents which could impact on Ca homeostasis in these i cells. Objective and Methods: To directly measure and compare intracellular Ca transients and cell shortening in myocytes dispers...

1 The Effect of Cohesive-Law Parameters on Mixed-Mode Fracture R. B. Sills and M. D. Thouless Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Materials Science & Engineering University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125, USA Abstract Cohesive-zone models of fracture provide a framework that allows a smooth transition between a strength-based approach to fracture and an energy-based approac...

PURPOSE Femoral osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) is a disorder of unknown aetiology and variable prognosis that causes knee pain. In this paper, the authors study the impact of lower limb malalignment on the development and prognosis of OCD. METHODS After anteroposterior (AP) and lateral radiograph and MRI of the knee, 53 cases of OCD were diagnosed. All patients were studied by standing full-...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of the current study was to investigate the reaction of the femur to the implantation of the MiniHipTM in terms of: (1) bone density change during one year; (2) correlations between stem length, CCD (caput-collum-diaphyseal), femoral offset, T-value, and bone density; (3) other co-variables that influence the change of bone density. PATIENTS AND METHODS MiniHipTM impl...