Suffusion erosion may occur in sandy gravel dam foundations that use suspended cutoff walls. This erosion causes a loss of fine particles, degrades the soil strength and deformation moduli, and adversely impacts the cutoff walls of the dam foundation, as well as the overlying dam body. A comprehensive evaluation of these effects requires models that quantitatively describe the effects of fine p...

The need to prepare cities for climate change adaptation requests the urban modeller community to implement sustainable adaptation strategies within their models to be tested against specific city morphologies and scenarios. Greening city roofs is part of these strategies. In this context, the GREENROOF module for TEB (town energy balance) has been developed to model the interactions between bu...

The article presents the results of studies water-physical properties reclaimed peat soils four objects Ryazan region, included in Meschera. Drainage systems are destroyed due to lack maintenance, which leads an increase level groundwater drained areas. have similar changes, expressed utilization over 65 years drainage by 28-38 %, soil compaction 0.08-0.12 g/cm3, a decrease ash content 2-2.9 % ...

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This manuscript describes a case of successful reattachment of a macular-off retinal detachment following optical coherence tomography-guided internal drainage of retained subretinal fluid following a nondrain method. To date, there has not been any documented treatment option for this common phenomenon. This novel technique describes a method to remove such fluid and successfully appose the re...

Free-living nematodes are an important group in all benthic habitats. They occur in high abundance and due to the feeding types they have strong influence on bacteria, algae, detritus and meiofauna in periphyton and sediments. The main aims of this study were to determine the vertical distribution of nematodes and their feeding types within the moss-covered tufa barrier over a one year period i...

It has been shown experimentally that cratered surfaces may have better adhesion properties than flat ones. However, the suction effect produced by the craters, which may be chiefly responsible for the improved adhesion, has not been properly modelled. This paper combines experimental, numerical simulation and analytical approaches towards developing a framework for quantifying the suction effe...

Dredging of contaminated sediments has shown to be a harmful activity for the environment, because a number of contaminants can be resuspended and become available to the organisms. Furthermore, dredged contaminated sediments may cause significant damages in the dumping site. In order to avoid the drawbacks of this activity, better techniques have to be developed and the present article present...

of large amount of pleural fluid with many polymorphonuclear leukocytes, bacteria and cellular debris. The pleural fluid becomes clottable due to leakage of plasma proteins and loss of fibrinolytic activity in pleural space resulting in the formation of thick layer of fibrin over parietal and visceral pleura. The migration of fibroblasts into pleural space leads to collagen deposition and along...

The rise and fall of the groundwater level can drive air flow in vadose zone. In turn, interact with water flow. When unconfined aquifer is covered by a low-permeability media, coupling more obvious. this study, conceptual model established for zone response to rapid fluctuations table. Water injection drainage experiments are conducted double-layered sand column thick layer (80.5 cm) coarse th...