Tubed-reinforced-concrete columns are gaining increasing usage in engineering practices, whereas research on their fire behaviour is still limited and mainly concentrated unrestrained columns. Since end-restrained might behave differently as compared to the columns, of square tubed-reinforced-concrete with end restraints was investigated via numerical modelling this study. The axial rotational ...

Pyramidal truss sandwich cores with relative densities 4q in the range 1–10% have been made from carbon fiber reinforced polymer laminates using a snap-fitting method. The measured quasi-static uniaxial compressive strength increased with increasing 4q from 1 to 11 MPa over the relative density range investigated here. A robust face-sheet/ truss joint design was developed to suppress truss– fac...

A sore throat is the most frequent adverse side effect of general anesthesia. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between intravenous lidocaine given during induction of general endotracheal anesthesia and postanesthesia sore throat. In addition, the study examined selected variables (bucking; gender; smoking; type of laryngoscope blade; and use of succinylcholine, conde...

BACKGROUND During preparation and draping of periorbital area, neck flexion causes displacement of the endotracheal tube tip toward the carina. Stimulation of the tracheal mucosa may cause bucking, increased intraocular pressure (IOP), laryngospasm, bronchospasm, change in end-tidal carbon dioxide pressure (PETCO2) or peripheral arterial haemoglobin oxygen saturation (SpaO2) during light anaest...

Objective: The adverse events caused by intubation may contribute to serious cardiovascular and systemic stress responses, especially in pediatric patients. Alternative airway maintenance techniques may attenuate these hemodynamic and systemic stress responses. This study aimed to compare the hemodynamic and systemic stress responses of the insertion of Oro-Pharyngeal airway cap (OPLAC) and End...

In English, many words can be used flexibly to label artifacts, as nouns, or functional uses of those artifacts, as verbs: We can shovel snow with a shovel and comb our hair with a comb. Here, we examine whether young children form generalizations about flexibility from early in life and use such generalizations to predict new word meanings. When children learn a new word for an artifact, do th...

Harvesting trials were performed during the winter and spring of 2003–2004 in central Oregon to compare the costs, production rates, and soil compaction impacts of two systems for harvesting western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis). The two systems compared were a conventional system consisting of manual felling, delimbing, and bucking using a chainsaw and skidding logs with a rubber-tired grap...

The aim of the present study was to illustrate the diagnosis and treatment of carotid body tumor (CBT) based on our experience of previous patients. A total of 58 patients (62 lesions) with CBT who received surgery between October 2003 and October 2013 were included. In total, 17 lesions were categorized into Shamblin grade I, 33 were grade II, and 12 were grade III. Surgical resection of CBT w...