Drainage pipes are a critical component of urban infrastructure, and their safety and proper functioning are vital. However, haze problems caused by humid environments and temperature differences seriously affect the quality and detection accuracy of...
Studying the additional force in topsoil containing multiple aquifers can have a significant impact on predicting shaft wall fracture and guaranteeing shaft safety, as the aquifer number increases as drainage occurs. In this study, a numerical model...
Urban drainage systems that incorporate elements of green infrastructure (SuDS/GI) are central features in Blue-Green and Sponge Cities. Such approaches provide effective control of stormwater management whilst generating a range of other benefits. H...
Management of a solitary pancreatic pseudocyst with endoscopic transpapillary stent drainage is a well recognized treatment modality. Endoscopic options are however limited in the presence of multiple pancreatic pseudocysts. Conventionally surgery ha...
Drainage pipeline construction projects are vulnerable to a range of defects, such as branch concealed joints, variable diameter, two pipe mouth significances, foreign object insertion, pipeline rupture, and pipeline end disconnection, generated duri...
Selecting the flow accumulation threshold (FAT) plays a central role in extracting drainage networks from Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). This work presents the MR-AP (Multiple Regression and Adaptive Power) method for choosing suitable FAT when ext...
In this paper, a mathematical model is proposed to investigate the effect of nonlinear flow mechanisms on productivity-index (PI) behavior in hydraulically fractured reservoirs during steady-state condition. This approach focuses on the fact that PI...
Rational water and fertilizer management approaches and technologies could improve water use efficiency and fertilizer use efficiency in paddy rice cultivation. A promising water-conserving technology for paddy rice farming is the alternate wetting a...
Information on the spatial variability of soil-available micronutrients is important for farming and soil management practices. As current knowledge of factors influencing soil available micro-nutrients in the long-term scales is limited, we analyzed...
Deep neck infection (DNI) is associated with morbidity and mortality. Surgical incision and drainage (I&D) of DNI abscesses are essential. Refractory abscesses require repeat I&D. Few studies have assessed the risk factors associated with rep...
Pancreatic fluid collections (PFCs) are a common sequela of pancreatitis. Most PFCs can be managed conservatively, but symptomatic PFCs require either surgical, percutaneous, or endoscopic intervention. Recent advances in the therapeutics of PFCs, in...
Although Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) are used in cities across the world as effective flood adaptation responses, their economic viability has frequently been questioned. Inclusion of the monetary value of ecosystem services (ES) provided by...
For a railway or highway tunnel under high water pressure during operation, various factors such as the design of the drainage system, material aging, and pipeline blockage must be considered for the tunnels to work with the parallel adit to drain an...
Background: Infected pancreatic necrosis (IPN) is a serious complication of moderate-to-severe acute pancreatitis (AP), associated with high morbidity, intensive care unit (ICU) admission, organ failure, and mortality. Initial management relies on an...
Endoscopic drainage and necrosectomy are now accepted treatment approaches for patients with symptomatic walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WON). The current recommendations advocate step-up approaches for the treatment of symptomatic WON. Previous reco...
Introduction: Digital thoracic drainage systems are a new technology in minimally invasive thoracic surgery. However, the criteria for chest tube removal in digital thoracic drainage systems have never been evaluated. We aim to investigate the incide...
Background: Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB), as a common method for axillary staging of early breast cancer, has gradually attracted people’s attention to the false-negative rate and postoperative complications. The aim of the study is to investiga...
Marine soft soils are characterized by high compressibility, low strength, and low permeability, which often result in excessive settlement and stability problems. Drainage consolidation methods are widely regarded as effective solutions for improvin...
Different types of deep-hole blasting techniques are needed to solve gas drainage problems in complex and variable cases. Blasting parameters suitable for mines are selected based on the relationship between blast stress field changes and gas flow co...
In the context of the high incidence of flooding disputes among neighboring subjects in the basin, exploring the drainage rights trading mechanism and clarifying the pricing method of drainage rights are new ideas to manage flooding disasters. In thi...
The automatic detection and accurate characterization of drainage patterns are of primary importance for interpreting the regional geologic origin and the features of the regional geological structure. However, there are few studies regarding the ide...
Regional data needed for effective stream restoration include hydraulic geometry relationships (i.e., regional curves) and reference channel morphology parameters. Increasingly ecological conditions are being considered when designing, implementing,...
Drainage pipelines face significant threats to underground safety due to external defects. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a primary tool for detecting such defects from within the pipeline. However, existing methods are limited to single or multip...
In order to evaluate the proportion of old and new water in drainage runoff, we recorded air temperature, drainage discharge, drainage runoff temperature, soil temperature, precipitation totals, and temperature. The results of separation by temperatu...
The pre-Columbian World Heritage site of Tiwanaku (AD 600–1100) located in highland altiplano Bolivia is shown to have a unique urban water supply system with many advanced hydraulic and hydrological features. By use of Computational Fluid Dyna...
Achieving scalable monitoring of Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) for methane mitigation in rice cultivation depends on establishing field benchmarks for drainage behavior and demonstrating that satellite observations can reliably detect correspond...
In this study, experimental quantification of drainage potential curves for unspiked and spiked Exxsol D60 was performed and compared against simplified numerical model results. This potential relates to the flow rate of tapped water from the bottom...
Pump stations prevent backwater effects from urban streams and safely drain rainwater in urban areas. Urbanization has increased the required capacity of centralized reservoirs and drainage pumps; yet, their respective designs are based on the runoff...
Non-point source (NPS) pollution from agriculture accounts for more than 20% of the total pollution load in the Republic of Korea, with the highest nutrient balance among OECD countries. Rice paddy fields are among the most important NPSs because of...
Over the years, multiple tailings dam failures all over the world have been primarily linked to drainage issues. Given its critical role in dam stability, this research analyzes the relationship between precipitation, reservoir levels, and geotechnic...
The hydraulic performance of woven geotextiles is frequently overlooked in roadway design, despite their extensive use for reinforcement applications. Woven geotextiles are typically manufactured from hydrophobic polymers such as polypropylene or pol...
The fast drainage of surface water from road pavements is essential to ensure both driving safety and adequate infrastructure service life. For close-graded asphalt mixtures, surface runoff relies on sufficient longitudinal and transverse slopes that...
The environmental quality of mangroves is influenced by multiple factors, among which shrimp aquaculture currently plays a major role. This study describes the alterations of natural conditions of mangrove systems that house shrimp farms in the north...
Within a drainage system, drainage ditches are designed to improve existing natural drainage. Although drainage ditches are mostly engineered, they can also be part of natural watercourses. For environmental sustainability, in many places there are g...
Sediment accumulation in the drainage systems of mountain tunnels is a typical issue threatening operational safety. To explore the sedimentation behavior under the coupling of multiple factors, this study systematically analyzes the coupled effects...
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) are currently first- and second-line therapeutic options, respectively, for the relief of biliary obstruction. In recent years, however, endos...
Stream water quality in areas of the western United States continues to be degraded by acid mine drainage (AMD), a legacy of hard-rock mining. The Rico-Argentine Mine in southwestern Colorado consists of complex multiple-level mine workings connected...
Dust, sediment, and stone chips often block the rainwater-infiltration paths of permeable pavements, which, in conjunction with vehicle load, reduces drainage capacity. To restore this capacity, a reasonable maintenance time and suitable maintenance...
This article presents a methodology to optimize the integration of local scale drainage measures in catchment modelling. The methodology enables to zoom into the processes (physically, spatially and temporally) where detailed physical based computati...
Makassar City frequently experiences monsoonal floods, typical of a tropical city in Indonesia. However, there is no high-accuracy flood map for flood inundation. Examining the flood inundation area would help to provide a suitable flood policy. Henc...
Mussels of the family Unionidae are important components of freshwater ecosystems. Alarmingly, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Red List of Threatened Species identifies almost 200 unionid species as extinct, e...
Endoscopic ultrasound-guided biliary drainage (EUS-BD) has dramatically spread and improved in the last two decades and is changing the paradigm of drainage in case of malignant biliary obstruction (MBO). EUS-BD can be achieved from different routes,...
Hybridization is common among minnows and shiners in the family Leuciscidae, and mitonuclear discordance can reveal evidence of historical hybridization and introgression events that have shaped extant species and populations. We have identified a no...
The natural capital and ecosystem services concepts describe the multiple benefits people get from nature. Urbanisation has been identified as one of the key factors influencing the decline of natural capital globally. Urbanisation has also been asso...
Developing accurate stream maps requires both an improved understanding of the drivers of streamflow spatial patterns and field verification. This study examined streamflow locations in three semiarid catchments across an elevation gradient in the Co...
In response to the imperative to mitigate methane—one of the most potent greenhouse gases—this study proposes and tests an integrated workflow for designing methane drainage boreholes targeting post-mining areas in an active underground c...
With the management and operation of urban drainage systems (UDS) becoming more complicated and difficult, integrated models aiming to control and manage the entire drainage system are under enormous demand. Ideally, integrated models, as a potential...
Background and Objectives: The novel double-pigtail catheter (DPC) has an additional pigtail coiling at the mid-shaft with multiple centripetal side holes. The present study aimed to investigate the advantages and efficacy of DPC in overcoming the co...
Urban flood risk is increasingly exacerbated by climate change and rapid urbanization, rendering many existing urban stormwater drainage systems (USDSs) inadequate for effective flood mitigation. Given the long service life, rehabilitated USDS must a...
Deep neck infections (DNIs) such as parotid abscesses are medical emergencies with a seemingly different etiology and treatment course from other DNIs. We sought to confirm this in the present retrospective population-based cohort study. Between Augu...
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