[Objective] Key construction technologies for large-diameter shield tunneling in sand and gravel strata are summarized and analyzed, including shield machine model selection, shield launching and receiving, and shield excavation posture control.Specific construction control parameters and measures are proposed to reduce cutterhead tool wear, decrea
The argumentative talk on radio and TV has become a popular feature of media discourse in Kenya.Question-answer sequences as the talk unfolds through the joint participation of co-participants in the talk have emerged as a means to put argumentative talk into effect.Yet, the nature of questions and their categorization remain 130 little understood.
Background Three-dimensional (3D) tissue models bridge the gap between conventional two-dimensional cell cultures and animal models.The aim of this study was to develop an organotypic 3D gingival (OTG) model to provide a tool to investigate bacterial and viral pathogens in periodontitis.Methods The OTG model composed of gingival fibroblasts (GFs) a
Cluster headache is generally considered to be a primary headache; secondary cluster-like headache is quite rare, while cluster-like headache secondary to meningioma is even rarer.Here, we describe an unusual case with cluster-like headache 2.5 years Saw Blades after sphenoid ridge meningioma surgery.The cluster-like headache and meningioma were on
A putative quantifier of consciousness, integrated information, was applied to preterm Eau de Parfum infant EEG data after novel pre-processing.Integrated information had a non-random structure as a function of the time lag over which it was computed.For most lags, it increased with age in early life, but even more so in infants exposed to Family N