In this paper, simulation of fire in a short 2-lane road tunnel and its evacuation are described. Two traffic situations in the tunnel and their impact on people evacuation in fire conditions are analyzed. For simulation of the tunnel fire, the FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) system, version 5.5.3 based on advanced CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) fire model is used. The evacuation of people in...

Aim of this study was to compare post-operative recovery over 14 days in children submitted to tonsillectomy using a bipolar radiofrequency-based plasma device (Coblation, Evac 70, ArthroCare Corp, Sunnyvale, CA, USA) to cold dissection. Paediatric patients (n = 42) aged 5-16 years old with chronic tonsillitis underwent tonsillectomy using cold dissection with suture ligatures or a plasma devic...

A number of heparin-binding growth factors, including basic (bFGF) and acidic (aFGF) fibroblast growth factors have been shown to promote angiogenesis in vivo. In this study, we employed a sustained-release polymer extravascular delivery system to evaluate the angiogenic efficacy of a novel form of genetically modified aFGF in the setting of chronic myocardial ischemia. Fifteen Yorkshire pigs s...

Using a mixed basis pseudopotential method, total energy calculations were performed to obtain the enthalpy of vacancy formation in Ta as a function of pressure, which is important for understanding the effects of pressure on mechanical properties. The vacancy formation enthalpy is found to increase from 2.95 eV at ambient pressures to 12.86 eV at 300 GPa, and the vacancy formation volume decre...

When there are traffic jams in the tunnel, if critical velocity is used for longitudinal smoke exhaust, it will pose a threat to vehicles and people congested downstream. Using FDS + EVAC numerical simulation, this paper has studied fire control strategies transverse passageway intervals. The results show that: (1) congestion at downstream of source, excessive exhaust reduce available safe evac...

It follows on general grounds that the θ dependence in QCD is more complicated than suggested by the large Nc approach or instanton arguments. Generically, the vacuum energy Evac(θ) is a multi-valued function of θ admitting the existence of metastable states. We discuss decays of such metastable vacua in the theory with and without the axion, and point out the potential relevance of this and re...