The main impetus for a mini-symposium on corticothalamic interrelationships was the recent
number of studies highlighting the role of the thalamus in aspects of cognition beyond …

The health, safety and environmental risks associated with hydraulic fracturing (often termed
‘fracking’) as a means to extract shale gas can be managed effectively in the UK as long as …

Over the past decade, advances in molecular biology and genomics techniques have
revolutionized the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The technological advances in tissue …

… tests on tunnels in soft clay by Mair (1979) are also shown in Fig. 4. The line corresponding
… line of 4.1 m diameter tunnels in London Clay (after Mair & Taylor, 1993), and measurements …

… We observed a high correlation (Pearson correlation, r = 0.80) between t-MAD and MAF (Fig.
4B) for samples with t-MAD greater than the detection threshold (0.015) or with MAF > 0.025…

Interferon-β (IFN-β) is the major treatment for multiple sclerosis. However, this treatment is
not always effective. Here we have found congruence in outcome between responses to IFN-β …

… Thus the problem can be regarded as finding the value of (a, - r~r)/c, for limiting stability …
tests on model tunnel headings (Mair, 1979) has resulted in collapse loads which lie fairly close …

… movement δ r (at a radius r) is given by classical cylindrical cavity contraction theory (Mair &
… As the total radial stress (acting at the external radius of the tunnel lining) σ r is released from …

This paper reviews the state of the art and recent developments in geotechnical aspects of
bored tunneling in the urban environment. Various advances in tunnel construction …

… 3(a, b), were found to be practically independent of the ratio i ∕ r … significantly by Z ∕ r 0 as
shown in Fig. 3(b). Also shown in Fig. … If a normalized bending moment M ∕ E s i r 0 S max is …