concrete is the most common material used to line irrigation canals and must maintain its durability for the lifetime of the canal. compressive strength has been used as an index to control the quality of concrete; concrete that remains durable under freeze-thaw conditions is that with high compressive strength. research has shown that concrete linings can show suitable compressive strength in ...

BACKGROUND Ventilation tube insertion is a common treatment for children with persistent otitis media with effusion. Parents are concerned about the morbidity of this procedure and the influence of ventilation tubes on daily activities. Permissibility of swimming is a question that is most often asked. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of water penetration through ventila...

A study of the time course of penetration of 3H2O into whole worms suggests that worms immersed in a hypo-osmotic environment (15% artificial sea water) reach full exchange equilibrium more slowly than worms in an iso-osmotic environment (40% artificial sea water). The apparent water content, determined by dry mass, matches that determined by 3H2O exchange when worms are immersed for 24 h in 40...

One of the main functions of the skin is to control the ingress and egress of water into and out of the body. The transport kinetics of water in the stratum corneum (SC), the dominant site of resistance in the skin, is normally described assuming a homogeneous membrane model. In the present work, the desorption of water from SC was studied and profiles obtained for amount desorbed versus time p...

When bacteria assume the biofilm mode of growth, they can tolerate levels of antimicrobial agents 10 to 1,000 times higher than the MICs of genetically equivalent planktonic bacteria. The properties of biofilms that give rise to antibiotic resistance are only partially understood. Inhibition of antibiotic penetration into the biofilm may play a role, but this has not been proven directly. In th...

The bas is of the effects of urea on the human skin is its penetration kinetics into different skin layers. A strong vehicle dependence can be estabilished. Therefore wide differences are found in the duration and intensity of increased water-binding capacity after application of different urea containing emulsions. For therapy to increase the hydration and water-binding capacity in the homy la...

In this paper we propound a non­destructive and non­invasive technique for measuring the thickness of water penetration in a homogeneous slab. The proposed device consists of a 252 Cf spontaneous fission source and a set of 3 He detectors located on the same side of a concrete slab subject to water infiltration. The effectiveness of this technique has been investigated by Monte Carlo simulation...

The current study examined the effects of honey solution and water access on feeding behavior and survival of starving solenopsis mealybugs, Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae). The electrical penetration graph technique and an artificial membrane system were used to check whether P. solenopsis could imbibe free water or other liquid, such as the honey solution used here,...

The human cough is a significant vector in the transmission of respiratory diseases in indoor environments. The cough flow is characterized as a two-stage jet; specifically, the starting jet (when the cough starts and flow is released) and interrupted jet (after the source supply is terminated). During the starting-jet stage, the flow rate is a function of time; three temporal profiles of the e...

abstract: in this research, the relationship between geomorphologic factors with underground water resources in zahab plain (in west of kermanshah) has been analyzed using by analyzing-deducing and weighting methods. first, by using of pizometeric and exploratory well data, variation of water table in zahab plain has been comparative analysis with geomorphic unites and then, the zahab watershed...