In the past few years,construction extended extraordinarily to the southeast of Cairo,Egypt,where limestone caves *** existence of caves and sinkholes represents a hazard for such new urban *** state is planning to co...
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In the past few years,construction extended extraordinarily to the southeast of Cairo,Egypt,where limestone caves *** existence of caves and sinkholes represents a hazard for such new urban *** state is planning to construct a new housing community ***,it is important to map and delineate these natural voids and cavities before construction. Recently,cavity imaging by means of geophysical surveys became more *** this paper,DC resistivity survey had been applied at Al-Amal city,east of Qattamiya,Cairo to image the shallow subsurface and possibly karstic features and ***-two vertical electrical soundings were measured using the common Schlumberger array of electrode configuration with a maximum AB/2 spacing of 200 m.A 3-D inversion scheme was applied to the measured *** results of VES data inversion subdivided the shallow subsurface section in the study area into three main geoelectrical *** uppermost unit composed of sand,gravel and fossiliferous limestone with high resistivity values and small *** second unit is composed of sandy clay and clay with low resistivity *** third unit is considered to be the bed rock,where it consists of consolidated sand,limestone and marl with relatively high resistivity values. The results elucidated many geoelectrical variations which could be interpreted as litho-facies *** was also revealed that,the area is dissected by some normal faults affecting the second and third geoelectrical *** addition, numerous cavernous structures could be elucidated at shallow to intermediate *** features are too important to be taken into account during the housing development plans.
AIm: To analyze experiences to identify treatment outcomes and prognostic factors in a Saudi ***: medical records of patients with brainstem gliomas treated from July 2001 to December 2012 were reviewed to identify tr...
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AIm: To analyze experiences to identify treatment outcomes and prognostic factors in a Saudi ***: medical records of patients with brainstem gliomas treated from July 2001 to December 2012 were reviewed to identify treatment outcomes of surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy and associated prognostic factors in a Saudi ***: We analyzed 49 brain stem glioma(BSG) patients from July 2001 to December 2012; 31 of them were males(63.3%) with a median age of 12.6 years(range: 8-64 mo). Twenty-two patients(44.9%) had diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas(DIPG) and 15(30.6%) presented with focal/tectal BSG. Histopathology was available in 30 patients(61.2%). median survival time for the whole cohort was 1.5 years. One and two year OS rates were 51.1% and 41.9% respectively. Two year OS rates for focal/tectal, dorsally exophytic, cervicomedullary and DIPG tumors were 60%, 33.3%, 33.3% and 13.6% respectively(P 18 years) P = 0.01, KPS mptoms(maximal resection) P = 0.002, and concurrent chemotherapy with radiation therapy in DIPG(better if given) P = ***: BSG, especially the DIPG subgroup, had a dismal prognosis, needing more aggressive neurosurgical, radiation and chemotherapy techniques, while focal and tectal tumors were found to have a better prognosis.
To investigate climate variability in Asia during the last millennium, the spatial and temporal evolution of summer(June–July–August;JJA) temperature in eastern and south-central Asia is reconstructed using multi-pr...
To investigate climate variability in Asia during the last millennium, the spatial and temporal evolution of summer(June–July–August;JJA) temperature in eastern and south-central Asia is reconstructed using multi-proxy records and the regularized expectation maximization(RegE m) algorithm with truncated total least squares(TTLS), under a point-by-point regression(PPR) framework. The temperature index reconstructions show that the late 20 th century was thewarmest period in Asia over the past millennium. The temperature field reconstructions illustrate that temperatures in central, eastern, and southern China during the 11 th and 13 th centuries, and in western Asia during the 12 th century, were significantly higher than those in other regions, and comparable to levels in the 20 th century. Except for the most recent warming, all identified warm events showed distinct regional expressions and none were uniform over the entire reconstruction area. The main finding of the study is that spatial temperature patterns have, on centennial timescales, varied greatly over the last millennium. moreover, seven climate model simulations, from the Coupled model Intercomparison Project Phase 5(CmIP5), over the same region of Asia, are all consistent with the temperature index reconstruction at the 99 % confidence level. Only spatial temperature patterns extracted as the first empirical orthogonal function(EOF) from the GISS-E2-R and mPI-ESm-P model simulations are significant and consistent with the temperature field reconstruction over the past millennium in Asia at the 90 % confidence level. This indicates that both the reconstruction and the simulations depict the temporal climate variability well over the past millennium. However, the spatial simulation or reconstruction capability of climate variability over the past millennium could be still limited. For reconstruction, some grid points do not pass validation tests and reveal the need for more proxies with high temporal res
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