In the construction industry, non-destructive testing (NDT) methods are gaining more popularity for their ability to examine the in-situ component properties without damaging the structure. One of the most common NDTs for measuring the concrete compressive strength on site is the Rebound Hammer Test. Using the rebound value obtained from the test hammer, the concrete compressive strength can be...

It is a diagnostic problem to distinguish thymic rebound or rebound thymic hyperplasia from thymic malignancy, but it is frequently made more difficult because most patients have had previous malignancies. Recently we evaluated a six-year-old girl with thymic rebound after chemotherapy for lymphoma, by both gallium-67 and thallium-201 scans. On gallium-67 scan, intensive uptake was seen in the ...

The time course of the nicotinic acid-induced changes in levels of plasma free fatty acids (FFA) was examined. The plasma FFA response of fasted dogs to graded doses of nicotinic acid was shown to be biphasic: an initial depression of the level of plasma FFA was followed by a rebound elevation to supernormal levels. FFA rebound was not seen after the administration of the nicotinic acid homolog...

In August 2012, the Stribog hash function was selected as the new Russian hash standard (GOST R 34.11-2012). Stribog is an AES-based primitive and is considered as an asymmetric reply to the new SHA-3. In this paper we investigate the collision resistance of the Stribog compression function and its internal cipher. Specifically, we present a message differential path for the internal block ciph...

in this paper, after collecting the rock samples from eight mines and one high way slope, the tests for determination of dry density, uniaxial compressive strength, tensile strength (brazilian test), elastic modulus, schmidt hammer rebound number have been done on samples. in addition, in order to calculating the mean size of rock grains, quartz content, hardness and abrasivity, a thin sections...

Hyperosmolar solutions and digital massage are frequent adjuncts employed to minimize vitreous loss at cataract extraction (Scott, i962; Virno, Cantore, Bietti, and Bucci, I963; Murray and Tipler, I966; Guyton, I954; Kirsch and Steinman, I955). The former is effective in reducing vitreous mass during the time interval usually necessary to complete a lens extraction, but the latter may not have ...

The hash function JH [20] is one of the five finalists of the NIST SHA-3 hash competition. It has been recently tweaked for the final by increasing its number of rounds from 35.5 to 42. The previously best known results on JH were semi-free-start near-collisions up to 22 rounds using multi-inbound rebound attacks. In this paper we provide a new differential path on 32 rounds. Using this path, w...

Sleep pressure and rebound comprise the two compensatory or "homeostatic" responses to sleep deprivation. Although sleep pressure is expressed by infant rats as early as postnatal day (P)5, sleep rebound does not appear to emerge until after P11. We reexamined the developmental expression of these sleep-regulatory processes in P2 and P8 rats by depriving them of sleep for 30 min using a cold, a...