Analytical bedded-beam spring model is most commonly adopted in the tunnel engineering practice due to its simplicity and promising outputs. Despite many well documented literatures exist concerning about theories fundamentals of various methods, there a dearth information on modelling framework details are often overlooked process. The main aim this paper produce soft ground, for both direct i...

The anatomical diffusing factors (ADFs), defined as the ratio of surface area to the thickness of the diffusion barrier, of possible respiratory surfaces of adult amphioxus (Branchiostoma lanceolatum) were evaluated using stereological methods. The ADF is greatest for the lining of the atrium and for the skin covering the segmental muscles. Calculation of the diffusing capacities for O(2) revea...

OBJECTIVE To determine the patterns of referred pain in patients with proven cervical zygapophysial joint pain. DESIGN The pain drawings were analyzed of patients with neck pain or headache who underwent controlled, diagnostic blocks, to test whether a zygapophysial joint was the source of their pain. The distribution of pain reported by each patient who had a positive response to blocks at a...

In four reading aloud experiments we investigated the operations occurring at the level of the phonological buffer by manipulating stress and phoneme information. In all experiments we adopted a masked priming paradigm with three-syllable Italian word targets. Experiments 1 and 2 tested the effect of pure segmental (e.g., fe%%%% - FEcola) and pure suprasegmental (CInema - FEcola) overlap, respe...

Abstract Segmental lining is subject to significant upward buoyancy forces when a grouting material (slurry), initially fluid, adopted fill the gap between its external profile and wall of tunnel excavated with TBM machine. The analysis effects these important in order correctly dimension segmental avoid damage subsequent costly maintenance restoration actions. Given complexity behavior consist...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of a single intravenous treatment with glucocorticoids (GC) encapsulated in long-circulating PEG-liposomes on both joint inflammation and cartilage destruction and to investigate the phenomenon of selective homing of these liposomes in the inflamed synovium. METHODS Mice with collagen type II-induced arthritis (CIA) were intravenously treated with liposomal...