Study on the Calculation of the Post-construction Settlement after the Secondary Preloading of Sand Pile Composite Foundation of the High-speed Railway

To complete the technology upgrade of the Kunshan section of the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, the secondary preloading of the original sand pile foundation was carried out in five years after the completion of the railway.Whether the control requirements of the post-construction settlement of the upgraded railway could be met was the key.Therefore, in

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Microbiological treatment of oil mill waste waters

Experiments of the biological treatment of the oil mill waste waters, deriving from continuous system, have been carried out with selected mutant ferments, adapted to rather forced toxic conditions.The commercial microbio formulations SNKD, LLMO and PSBIO have been utilized; the last two are liquid suspensions, constituted by living micro-organisms

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Renewed occurrence of schooling scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) and of great hammerhead (S. mokarran) sharks in the Cayman Islands

The scalloped hammerhead shark (Sphyrna lewini), a critically endangered species with a decreasing global population, is characterised by its occurrence in large schools.Such schools are still observed today in the Pacific Ocean, but this is generally not the case in the Atlantic Ocean, and in the Cayman Islands not since the 1970s.Here we report a

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Metastatic choroidal pulmonary biphasic blastoma as a unique single initial metastasis to the eye: a case report

Abstract Background Choroidal metastasis is the most common intraocular malignancy in adults, commonly presenting in later stages of the disease and associated with poor prognosis.This Hydrating Cream is the first case to describe choroidal involvement as the sole initial metastasis of the rare biphasic pulmonary tumor.Case presentation A 42-year-o

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