Failure of dams due to overtopping is among the most frequent forms of embankment failures. Owing to massive and wide spread damage to structures and loss of lives associated with a dam failure, the subject has drawn the attention of scientists. The study also becomes essential for damage assessment and for development of early warning system of people downstream of the embankment. The rate of ...

  I read with interest Dr. Yazdani's reply about the article entitled “administration of magnesium sulfate to women with premature labor: The effect on bleeding time”.1 In my review of hematology references, I could not find any reference for determining hemoglobin (Hb) sooner than 24 hrs and Dr. Yazdani had not cited any reference either. However, about the influence of Hb on homeostasis, ther...

Constant small quantities (0.1 to 100 micrograms per hour) of mustard (H) or lewisite (L) gas may be obtained by allowing the vapor to diffuse through a porous alundum plug of suitable dimensions. By regulating the rate of flow of air past the plug known concentrations of the gases in air may be obtained.

Pulsatile flow of blood in constricted narrow arteries under periodic body acceleration is analyzed, modeling blood as non-Newtonian fluid models with yield stress such as i Herschel-Bulkley fluid model and ii Casson fluid model. The expressions for various flow quantities obtained by Sankar and Ismail 2010 for Herschel-Bulkley fluid model and Nagarani and Sarojamma 2008 , in an improved form, ...

Heparinized porcine blood and plasma, at constant hydrostatic pressure, was allowed to flow through a 5-mm incision in a small piece of porcine skin. Changes in the exuded blood volume were measured, and the incision site was examined microscopically. When normal blood flowed through either normal or von Willebrand skin, the exuded blood volume decreased gradually and eventually stopped. Micros...

Although distal plugging is a common procedure to prevent distal flow of polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) cement during cementing of femoral prostheses, there is little biomechanical testing to confirm that (a) the plugs do not displace under cementing pressure, and (b) they do in fact occlude cement flow. Two designs of femoral intramedullary plugs, the Biostop G (Bioland, France) and Hardinge (...

Pulsatile flow of blood through mild stenosed narrow arteries is analyzed by treating the blood in the core region as Casson fluid and the plasma in the peripheral layer as Newtonian fluid. Perturbation method is used to solve the coupled implicit system of non-linear differential equations. The expressions for velocity, wall shear stress, plug core radius, flow rate and resistance to flow are ...