The increasing economic viability of mobile devices has lead to a new breed of computational tools that can be applied to existing problems. Archaeological excavation is one application area to which mobile devices are being used and a range of tools that aid in this domain are being developed. However as archaeologists use a variety of these tools in recording data there becomes the need to st...

This paper presents a preliminary study on the system reliability for the geotechnical design of braced excavations in soft clays. In this system reliability geotechnical analysis, both ultimate limit state (ULS) and serviceability limit state (SLS) are considered. Herein, the ULS failure refers to the basal heave failure, while the SLS failure refers to failures sue to excessive ground-surface...

Temporary earth retaining structures (TERS) help prevent collapse during construction excavation. To ensure that these structures are operating within design specifications, load forces on supports must be monitored. Current monitoring approaches are expensive, sparse, off-line, and thus difficult to integrate into predictive models. This work aims to show that wirelessly connected battery powe...

Behaviors displayed by worker termites, which make up 80Ð90% of any eastern subterranean termite population, provide the foundation for understanding the details of termite social organization. Individually marked termite workers were placed in an enclosed, darkened arena and videotaped for three 24-h periods. Behaviors observed in detail include ecdysial assistance, gallery excavation, oscilla...

Three case studies involving the use of numerical models are presented in this paper. First, a comparison of FE modelling of a deep excavation is made using 2-D finite element software, SAGE-CRISP and PLAXIS. In the second study, benchmarking is made between results obtained from 2-D FE modelling using PLAXIS and well-established 3-D centrifuge studies for the case of an existing single pile an...

Penile fi brosis renders implantation of a penile prosthesis a formidable procedure. Fibrosed corporate cavernosa resist dilation by blunt dilators, mandating the use of force and resulting in a high percentage of complications. This is a report on advances in the fi eld of penile prosthesis surgery for the fi brotic penis through the years 2006 to 2008. In that time, bovine pericardium was add...

Glaucomas keep being defined as a chronic progressive neuropathy with excavation on the optic nerve disc and subsequent changes in the visual field. This formulation does not, however, correspond to the most recent knowledge and has to be revised. Taking a more up-todate approach, glaucoma is defined as a disease in which progressive loss of ganglion cells of the retina and their axons demonstr...

Z. Kaláb, M. Stolárik, Institute of Geonics, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, B. Pandula, J. Kondela, Technical University of Košice, Institute of Geosciences, Slovakia The article summarizes experimental seismological measurements of vibration eff ects of blasting operations. During tunnel excavation can watch a variety of eff ects on the near or distant surroundings of the building. One o...

The excavation of mass graves provides information and documentation for both human rights work and for forensic medico-legal investigations. Medico-legal documentation for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda is a major reason for recent excavation of large mass graves in these countries. The mass grave ...

The advent of "Adhesive Dentistry" has simplified the guidelines for cavity preparation enormously. The design and extent of the current preparations are basically defined by the extent and shape of the caries lesion, potentially slightly extended by bevelling the cavity margins in order to meet the modern concept of minimally invasive dentistry. New caries excavation techniques have been intro...