It has long been established that pore water pressure (pwp) variations affect the stability and serviceability of slopes. Pwp may be due to consolidation/swelling processes within soils low permeability or seasonal evapotranspiration precipitation processes. The simultaneous study such phenomena hydro-mechanical coupling in sloping ground requires use advancednumerical methods. Often, infrastru...

Objectives. To explore the experiences of people with Parkinson's (PwP) who suffer from constipation, the impact this has on their lives, and the effect of using lifestyle changes and abdominal massage as a form of constipation management. Method. Fourteen semistructured interviews were completed (8 males and 6 females; mean age 72.2 years) at the end of a care programme, which consisted of eit...

Semi-arid North-central Namibia has high potential for rice cultivation because large seasonal wetlands (oshana) form during the rainy season. Evaluating the distribution of surface water would reveal the area potentially suitable for rice cultivation. In this study, we detected the distribution of surface water with high spatial and temporal resolution by using two types of complementary satel...

In 12 patients with severe congestive heart failure (CHF) due to ischemic heart disease or nonischemic cardiomyopathy the hemodynamic response to intravenous infusion of sodium nitroprusside (N) was compared to that of dobutamine (D) 10 microgram/kg/min. D and N produced comparable increases in cardiac output (CO) (2.8 to 5.8 L/min and 2.9 to 5.0 L/min, respectively), but, compared to N, D caus...

Abstract In this paper, we tame the uncertainty about volatility in time-averaging principle for stochastic differential equations driven by G-Brownian motion (G-SDEs) based on Lyapunov condition. That means treat condition presence of a family probability measures, each corresponding to different scenario volatility. The main tool mathematical analysis is G-stochastic calculus, which introduce...

In this study, we investigated the effects of organic waste and moisture superabsorbent on the amount of available water and delay in moisture equivalent of permanent wilting point (PWP) in soil. In the first phase (soil incubation phase), 12 treatments were studied in a completely randomized design at the Soil Science Laboratory of Science and Research Branch, Tehran. The treatments c...