BACKGROUND Liver surgery in perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (PHC) is associated with high postoperative morbidity because the tumor typically causes biliary obstruction. Preoperative biliary drainage is used to create a safer environment prior to liver surgery, but biliary drainage may be harmful when severe drainage-related complications deteriorate the patients' condition or increase the risk of...

A review is made of current methods for assessing future changes in urban rainfall extremes and their effects on urban drainage systems, due to anthropogenic-induced climate change. The review concludes that in spite of significant advances there are still many limitations in our understanding of how to describe precipitation patterns in a changing climate in order to design and operate urban d...

INTRODUCTION The Frank Street catchment is an urbanised area on the Gold Coast located between Loders Creek and Biggera Creek, and drains directly to the Southport Broadwater. It has long been recognised that the capacity of drainage systems in the Frank Street area is minimal, primarily due to the aging drainage infrastructure. Most of the drainage systems were constructed prior to 1987 (when ...

The current practices used in tube drainage design often lead to unsatisfactory results : from the point of view of the system's hydraulic performance, or from the point of view of high cost of the system in relation to the actual economic benefits derived from it. It is proposed therefore, that the design of tube drainage systems should be based on a synthesis of experimental field results, an...