The Amber El Amino area is located 75 kilometres southeast of Prince Rupert. Access to the area is by helicopter from Prince Rupert or Terrace (Figure 1). The El Amino showing (BC MINFILE 103H 071) is located on Sulphide Creek (Figure 2) which drains eastward into Hanna (El Amino) Creek. The Amber showing (BC MINFILE 103H 171) is located 700 metres north of the El Amino showing. Hanna Creek dra...

The steady groundwater flow of water to drains on a sloping bed is re-examined. Results from a number of solutions for the maximum watertable height (hm) for flow to drains on slopes are presented and compared with published HeleShaw model results and HYDRUS2D numerical model calculations. Numerical modelling shows that when the length of the slope (L)  < 50 m the ratio L/hm is affected by L (...

Surgery is a medical discipline that has advanced significantly in recent decades thanks to advances technology and research. Surgical drains are devices used evacuate excess fluids accumulate the surgical wound. There different types of can be depending on area intervened type fluid evacuated. Each drainage specific advantages disadvantages, their choice will depend characteristics patient pro...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of small-bore, silastic drains for patients undergoing general thoracic surgery. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-five patients who received soft, small-bore, silastic drains were compared with 17 patients who received semi-rigid double lumen (DL) tubes retrospectively. RESULTS The pain score was significantly lower in patients who received the...

OBJECTIVE To investigate an outbreak of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing Enterobacter cloacae that occurred in the Hematology ward (24-bed unit) of the François Mitterrand University Hospital (Dijon, France) between January 2011 and December 2013. The outbreak involved 43 patients (10 infected and 33 colonized). DESIGN We performed environmental analysis to detect multiresist...

Abstract Beach erosion phenomena have become increasingly frequent and devastating with serious economic damage on tourism. A relatively recent technique of beach protection nourishment is based the creation along shoreline an unsaturated sandy zone, in which level phreatic surface lowered by means buried drains connected to electric suction pumps. The main problem encountered this solution nee...

Vacuum preloading coupled with prefabricated vertical drains (PVDs) has been widely used to improve the property of dredged slurry. However, effect PVD layout on slurry consolidation characteristics remains poorly understood. This study conducted two vacuum model tests—with single and dual PVDs. Particle image velocimetry (PIV) was directly observe displacements strain paths. The test results r...