A variety of automatic and semiautomatic measuring devices with print-out, card-punch, and paper-tape capacity have been used in the analysis of lateral head radiographs, posteroanterior head radiographs, and oblique-jaw views. Such devices include the tape-printing GOAT ' the card punching GADRS-4 and GADRS5,T and the OSCAR.T These automatic measuring instruments have satisfactory readout accu...

In this study blanket trimmings and mechanically recycled fibers were blended softly pre-needlepunched to be used as innerlayers of conventional needle-punched nonwovens. The outer layers from three types raw materials (polypropylene, polyester fibers) the control groups produced by classical needle-punching at two different needle-punch densities. Abrasion resistance bending properties end pro...

Abstract In flat-slab frames, which are typically designed as secondary seismic structures, the shear failure of slab around column (punching failure) is governing mode limits deformation capacity and can potentially lead to a progressive collapse structure. Existing rules predict flat frames resist imposed lateral displacements without losing capability bear gravity loads have been derived emp...

Sports involving throwing, striking and kicking activities, such as tennis, squash, baseball, football, among others, demand the production of maximum speed at the end of the distal segment in a kinematic chain. Research done on the biomechanics of these various, yet somehow similar sporting techniques, suggests that athletes generate large hand and foot speeds as a result of a proximal-to-dist...

This paper presents a new digital communication system called turbocodes m-binary. The advantages of building m-bit compared to the conventional scheme of turbo codes (m = 1), are varied: better convergence of the iterative process, larger minimum distances less punching, lower latency, robustness to the sub-optimality of the decoding algorithm, especially when the MAP algorithm is simplified b...

Fiber-reinforced composites have a wide range of industrial applications owing to their light weight, high modulus, and good specific strength. Trimming using mechanical punching tool is the fastest way post process fiber-reinforced composites. However, quantitative analyses defects parameters are required analyze damage mechanisms achieve high-quality cut surfaces. In this study, we quantitive...

An activity profile of competitive 3 × 2-min novice-level amateur boxing was created based on video footage and postbout blood [La] in 32 male boxers (mean ± SD) age 19.3 ± 1.4 y, body mass 62.6 ± 4.1 kg. Winners landed 18 ± 11 more punches than losers by applying more lead-hand punches in round 1 (34.2 ± 10.9 vs 26.5 ± 9.4), total punches to the head (121.3 ± 10.2 vs 96.0 ± 9.8), and block and...

Flat slab concrete buildings are widely found in infrastructure such as office and residential buildings or industrial facilities. The susceptibility of progressive collapse of such structures due to accidental loads is highly dependent on the structural performance of the slab-column connections. This paper presents a framework for a simplified reliability analysis and derivation of safety fac...