Liquefaction Potential of the Hydrotechnical Dikes Foundation Ground

The complex hydrotechnical works achieved upon the lower basin of the Olt river, within the southern part of Romania, imposed the building of several large reservoirs situated within the geo-morphological unit of the above named river flood plane. During the last years, due to the recent earthquakes that affected Romania, the macro-earthquake zoning of the country was changed. In these conditions, the problem of studying the stability of dikes foundation ground from the liquefaction point of view has raised. The paper presents the survey done in site and laboratory tests performed in order to determine most accurately, the natural ground geotechnical and dynamic parameters as well as an original method in order to estimate the ground liquefaction potential. Finally, the general stability analyses of the assembled dike-foundation ground is presented in pseudo-static hypothesis with taking into account the geotechnical parameters expected in dynamic conditions

Interaction with Nearly Environment and Old Structure for a Deep Excavation. Case History in Bucharest

The paper presents the influence of a deep excavation performed in Bucharest on the adjacent ground and on some old buildings around it; the damages and effects appeared during the excavation and the remedial measures are presented in detail, too. The excavation was designed to be 16.15 meters deep, sustained by a slurry wall enclosure of 60 cm thickness and pre-stressed anchors, and steel struts. Due to an accident that occured to the trench walls, a thorough monitoring by instrumentation started. The results of this monitoring are shown

New energy geographies : a case study of yoga, meditation and healthfulness

Beginning with a routine day in the life of a practitioner of yoga and meditation and emphasising the importance of nurturing, maintaining and preventing the dissipation of diverse ‘energies’, this paper explores the possibilities for geographical health studies which take seriously ‘new energy geographies’. It is explained how this account is derived from in-depth fieldwork tracing how practitioners of yoga and meditation find times and spaces for these practices, often in the face of busy urban lifestyles. Attention is paid to the ‘energy talk’ featuring heavily in how practitioners describe the benefits that they perceive themselves to derive from these practices, and to claims made about ‘energies’ generated during the time-spaces of these practices which seemingly flow, usually with positive effects, into other domains of their lives. The paper then discusses the implications of this energy talk in the context of: (a) critically reviewing conventional approaches to studying ‘energy geographies’; (b) identifying an alertness to the likes of ‘affective energies’ surfacing in recent theoretically-attuned works of human geography (and cognate disciplines); and (c) exploring differing understandings of energy/energies extant in geographical studies of health and in step with the empirical research materials presented about yoga, meditation and healthfulness. While orientated towards explicitly geographical inquiries, the paper is intended as a statement of interest to the wider medical humanities

Early passaging of mesenchymal stem cells does not instigate significant modifications in their immunological behavior

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