A system of vertical drains with combined vacuum and surcharge preloading is an effective solution for promoting radial flow, accelerating consolidation. However, when a mixture of soil and water is deposited at a low initial density, a significant amount of deformation or surface settlement occurs. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce large-strain theory, which has been widely used to manag...

Broadcasting protocols for video-on-demand normally require customers to wait for a few minutes before starting to watch the video of their choice. The easiest way to avoid this delay is to preload in each customer settop-box the first few minutes of each video. We present here a broadcasting protocol making this requirement optional: customers are offered the option of preloading the first few...

Fetal heart rate (FHR) was recorded and maternal blood pressure measured in 104 patients in whom lumbar epidural analgesia was induced in labour. Fifty-one patients received an intravenous load of 11 of Hartmann's solution immediately before the epidural injection. This infusion significantly reduced the incidence of abnormalities of FHR from 34% to 12% and of maternal hypotension from 28% to 2...

In this paper, we demonstrate a fast binary intensity modulation based on the measurement of the binary TM. For each correction, the binary TM was calculated based on measurements of the intensity change at the target with a series of input masks. After preloading the measurement masks, the DMD can run at full speed during measurement. The system allows dynamic focusing at 12.5 Hz with 1024 inp...

Takayasu’s areritis is a chronic inflammatory oblitarative arteritis of unknown aetiology. Anaesthesia in these patients is complicated by uncontrolled hypertension, hypoperfusion of organs and difficulty in BP monitoring due to stenosis and aneurismal dilatation of arteries. This case report is about successful management of a 27 yrs old primigragida with known case of Takayasu’s arteritis, Se...

This paper describes the behavior of soft soil foundation under vacuum-assisted preloading at the Second Bangkok International Airport, Thailand. An analytical solution considering the variation of soil permeability and compressibility is proposed. The associated settlement and excess pore pressure at the embankment centerline are predicted and compared with the available field measurement. The...