In tlie British Medical Journal, November 2Gth, 1898, Mr. Thelwall Thomas published an account of an operation for piles which I have tiied and found so satisfactory that I have since been in the habit of performing it on all my cases. The results are excellent, and it has the advantage of being easily and quickly performed. The patient complains of very little pain and recovery is rapid. A ful...

Energy piles are an effective and economic means of using geothermal energy resources for heating and cooling buildings, contributing to legislative requirements for renewable energy in new construction. While such piles have been used for around 25 years with no apparent detrimental effect, there is limited understanding of their thermo-mechanical behaviour. This paper synthesises the results ...

Despite widespread research effort in recent years, design methods to estimate the shaft resistance of displacement piles continue to rely heavily upon empirical correlations. In an attempt to achieve a more reliable design approach several researchers have assembled databases of instrumented pile load tests and used these to propose new design methods e.g. American Petroleum Institute (API-200...

Because offshore wind turbines are high-rise structures, they transfer large horizontal loads and moments to their foundations. One of the keys to designing a foundation is determining the sensitivities and laws affecting its load-bearing capacity. In this study, this procedure was carried out for a new high-rise cap pile group foundation adapted to the loading characteristics of offshore wind ...

An aerated static pile system with temperature feedback control was used for the composting of sewage sludge amended with olive tree leaves in a 1:1 (SS1) and 1:2 (SS2) v/v ratio, on two different occasions. The two piles were approximate 20 m3 each of similar dimensions; 2.0 wide at the base, 1.3 m height and 11 m long. Samples were taken from the core of the piles on four occasions: day 0 (es...

most codes such as api and bsi recommend morison’s equation to estimate hydrodynamic forces on offshore structures. significant differences exist among these codes due to using different methods of analysis and estimation of force coefficients. in this paper, data from full scale tests have been used to evaluate random waves and uniform current actions on the smooth piles. four time and frequen...

Twenty-Five years ago the surgical world in England, as I remember it, was largely dominated by a small circle of London Surgeons, of whom Sir Frederic Treves might fairly be considered the chief. It was a school with a short way with dissenters, and no doubt had its little mannerisms. The instrument known as a director (a harmless tool if properly employed, and still in common use in spite of ...

The aetiology of this ' universal and distressing complaint' which is very common in India is variable and need not be discussed in detail, though heredity, constipation, sedentary habits, child-bearing, middle age and drastic methods of cleaning the anus are all important factors, while in later life carcinoma of the rectum and enlarged prostate must never be forgotten. On looking at a patient...

We propose a variation of Wythoff’s game on three piles of tokens, in the sense that the losing positions can be derived from the Tribonacci word instead of the Fibonacci word for the two piles game. Thanks to the corresponding exotic numeration system built on the Tribonacci sequence, deciding whether a game position is losing or not can be computed in polynomial time.