The impact of shield construction on the close lateral passing high-speed railways can threaten safety operating railways. To study deformation characteristics structure after application isolation piles from ground surface and bridge piers an overpassing railway, we analyze mechanism pile restraint control establish a three-dimensional numerical model to situation railway with metro interval u...

The occurrence of 12 selected pharmaceutical compounds and pharmaceutical compound metabolites in sewage treatment works (STW) effluents and surface waters was investigated. The substances selected for the monitoring programme were identified by a risk ranking procedure to identify those substances with the greatest potential to pose a risk to the aquatic environment. STW final effluent and sur...

Recovery of degraded reefs is dependent on the settlement of coral larvae into habitats typically dominated by benthic algae, so that benthic algae may play pivotal roles in coral settlement and reef recovery. Here we demonstrate that waterborne influences of macroalgae could affect coral settlement before larvae contact reef substrata and that such effects vary between macroalgae. We tested fo...

Concerns about increasing bacterial resistance to vancomycin, have caused the adult treatment guidelines to recommend higher trough concentrations based on the type and location of infectious disease. Although these recommendations are not specific to children, the values can be extrapolated. This prospective study was designed to evaluate efficacy of current vancomycin dosing recommendations t...

The WALNUT project is funded by the Dutch Technology Foundation STW through the Open Technology program Noise Based Transmitted Reference Modulation for Wireless Sensor Networks Mahdin Mahboob1, Arjan Meijerink1, Sarwar Morshed2, Geert Heijenk2, Mark Bentum1 University of Twente 1Telecommunication Engineering Group, 2Design and Analysis of Communication Systems Group, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Ens...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Crepidula fornicata Habitat association Larval settlement Microhabitat Post-settlement mortality Recruitment Habitat-specific distributions of marine benthic invertebrates can be caused by several processes acting prior to, during or after settlement, including differential settlement and varying levels of mortality between habitat types following adaptation of t...

Subways have been an important method for relieving traffic pressures in urban areas, but ground subsidence, during construction and operation, can be a serious problem as it may affect the safety of its operation and that of the surrounding buildings. Thus, conducting long-term ground deformation monitoring and modeling for subway networks are essential. Compared with traditional geodetic meth...

This paper presents a Hybrid Excited Double-Sided Linear Flux Switching Machine (HEDSLFSM) with crooked tooth modular stator. Generally, the conventional stators are made of full-length iron core, increasing manufacturing costs and losses. Higher losses result in lower efficiency overall performance. A U-shaped stator is used to consumption increase machine’s efficiency. Ferrite magnets replace...

This work investigates experimentally the effect of using a skirt with square foundation 100 mm width resting on dry gypseous soil (i.e., loose 33% relative density), and subjected to an inclined load. Previous works did not study use skirted rested The investigated was brought from Tikrit city 59% gypsum content. Standard physical chemical tests selected were carried out. Model laboratory out ...

This study aimed to determine the effect of various influencing parameters such as tunnel diameter (D), depth (H), width (B), length (L), number floors, and horizontal distance building from axis (X), well soil properties internal friction angle (ϕ), Poisson ratio (υ), modulus elasticity (E), cohesion (C) on surface settlement using ABAQUS. According results, settelment increases with increasin...