A decrease in oxygenation during OLV occurred only at the highest dose of epidural local anesthetic and not at lower doses. Higher doses of epidural medication required less propofol and more vasopressors.

Due to the restrictions of ports, maneuverability of berthing ships will be affected significantly by water depth. In the present study, numerical simulation of the berthing maneuver of a ship with prescribed translational motion is performed by solving the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations based on overset grid, and the effects of the quaywall and freesurface are taken into consideration. To validate the present numerical method, comparison is performed between our results and the other results or measurements. It is found that the agreement is significantly better than that resulting from previous CFD-based approach. Subsequently, the effects of various water depths are investigated to evaluate their influences on hydrodynamic forces. The present results can provide helpful guidance on safe maneuvering for vessels’ berthing and fender system design in quays

Compressed natural gas (CNG) is a fossil fuel substitute for gasoline (petrol), diesel, or propane/LPG (liquefied petroleum gas). Nowadays, there are three ways used to store CNG: gas bottles group, jumbo tubes trailer, and CNG storage well. The technology of storage well came into use in the early 1990s in China and nowadays, there are more than 5000 CNG storage wells in use. In this paper, the CNG storage well is introduced with the structure, advantages, and the technology of construction. Compared with other CNG containers, storage well has the following advantages: safer and more reliable, accident-preventive, space-saving, and longer life expectancy. The feasibility of IRIS (internal rotary system) used for storage well NDT (Nondestructive testing) is also studied. And the CNG well with defects are assessed as well. To investigate the validity of IRIS in detecting the storage well, an interval casing with man-made defects is tested. FEM (finite element method), combined with the method in JB4732 (Chinese industry standard) is used to analyze the storage well with inner corrosion pits, and evaluate the fatigue life. The linear elastic FEA (finite element analysis) of storage with single, two, and three defects is performed. The limit load analysis is also discussed with two different iterative methods. The result shows that IRIS can be used in detecting internal and external defects and recording the information. The simulation indicates that the pit along the axis direction is more dangerous than the one on any other direction and the influence radius of pit is the length of defect. The two different iterative methods used in limit load analysis finally lead to a consensus. The IRIS can be adopted in storage well. It can detect the defects on the internal and external surface of casing and record the detailed information. A database should be built to record defect information for each storage well. On the basis of IRIS detection and FEM analysis, determines whether a well can survive or not until next detection carried on by the method proposed in this paper.

Case base construction is of great significance for the promotion of case teaching. But at present there is no successful geosciences case library can be used as reference. So the construction and development of geosciences case library has significance to fill the gap. This article is about design and implementation of geosciences case database based on the JSF framework, PrimeFaces component and BootsFaces component library. This case bank not only has some functions, such as case search, case browse, case upload, case download, user interaction, but also can set videos, audios, pictures and texts in one. In particular, this geoscience case database can be running on both of PC side and mobile terminal. Therefore the geoscience case database has good prospects in application and promotion.

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