Strain-based design (SBD) plays an important role in pipeline design and assessment of pipelines subjected to geo-hazards.Under such hazards, a pipe can be subjected to substantial plastic strains, leading to tensile failure at locations of girth weld flaws.For SBD, the finite element method (FEM) can be a reliable tool to calculate the tensile Tot
Abstract Background Spatial accessibility to healthcare facilities has drawn much attention in health geography.In China, central and local governments have aimed to develop a well-organized hierarchical system of healthcare facilities in recent years.However, few studies have focused on the measurement of healthcare accessibility in a hierarchical
The article uses European Value Survey data to analyze intergenerational differences in Lithuanian society in the domains of religion, morality, family, work and sociopolitical attitudes and the development of these differences during the twenty years of independence.Results of the Seal Kit analysis show a trend of an intercohort value change in 19
Purpose: To report a case of dengue maculopathy, which resolved spontaneously without treatment.Methods: A 25-year-old female patient with good past health was admitted to a general hospital in Hong Kong with fever of unknown origin after traveling to Indonesia.Based on the clinical features and a Sold Out positive real-time polymerase chain reacti