Clarifying the soil microbial metabolism and resource limitations could help to understand functions processes of aboveground ecosystems, as well predict ecosystem stability under global climate change. Karst tiankeng is a kind large-scale negative surface terrain on which similar an oasis in degraded karst landscapes, but their still unclear. In this study, we evaluated compared limitation non...

Nondestructive Testing (NDT) assessment of materials' health condition is useful for classifying healthy from unhealthy structures or detecting flaws in metallic or dielectric structures. Performing structural health testing for coated/uncoated metallic or dielectric materials with the same testing equipment requires a testing method that can work on metallics and dielectrics such as microwave ...

Since the beginning of the nineties, the CEA (the French Atomic Energy Commisssion), has been being developing ultrasonic modeling tools dedicated to NDT simulation and, over the years, integrated in the CIVA software platform. The models allow to compute ultrasonic beams generated by transducers in the inspected components, to conceive phased arrays transducers and to predict echoes arising fr...

The velocity of elastic wave is usually the essential property that has to be measured in advance, when applying the civil NDT technique based on the theory of transient elastic wave. The accuracy and handiness of the velocity measuring method are often become a key about the practicability of the NDT method. In this paper, based on the transient elastic wave theory, an elastic-wave-velocity me...

In order to handle long living radioactive waste Sweden is planning to build a deep repository that requires no monitoring by future generations. The spent nuclear fuel will be encapsulated in copper canisters consisting of a graphite cast iron insert shielded by an outer 30-50 mm thick copper cylinder for corrosion protection. A subpart of the final risk assessment is to determine the risk of ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of impaired cognitive processing on measures of driving skills in persons with MS. METHODS Twenty-eight subjects with documented MS were divided into two groups-with [MS(+), n = 13] and without [MS(-), n = 15] cognitive impairment-based on neuropsychological performance. Healthy control (HC) subjects (n = 17) matched on age and driving experience were also s...