OBJECTIVE Therapeutic ultrasound is an effective deep heating modality commonly applied alone or after cooling or heating of the treatment area. The purpose of this study was to examine the tissue temperature rise in the human triceps surae muscle group after ultrasound with prior heating via a silicate gel hot pack. DESIGN AND SETTING This study was designed as a 2 x 2 x 3 factorial with rep...

Education plays a pivotal role in promoting gender equality and Early Childhood (ECE) is fast emerging as new frontier to achieve this. The Nordic countries lead the pack advancing ECE, setting an exemplary standard for other nations. On one hand, they have included mainstreaming their policies regulations regarding ECE. By using Gender Equality Planning certificates, ensure that integral ECE a...

Battery technology is an enabling technology for electric vehicles (EVs), and improving its safety and reliability while reducing its cost will benefit its application to EVs. In this paper, a method on the design and analysis of lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery pack from the reliability perspective is presented. The analysis is based on the degradation of the battery pack, which is related to the ...

Two graphs G1 and G2 of order n pack if there exist injective mappings of their vertex sets into [n], such that the images of the edge sets do not intersect. Sauer and Spencer proved that if (G1) (G2) < 0.5n, then G1 and G2 pack. In this note, we study an Ore-type analogue of the Sauer–Spencer Theorem. Let θ(G) = max{d(u)+ d(v) : uv ∈ E(G)}. We show that if θ(G1) (G2) < n, then G1 and G2 pack. ...

Interring gas dynamic analysis of piston in a diesel engine considering the thermal effect. Understanding the interaction between ring dynamics and gas transport in ring pack systems is crucial and needs to be imperatively studied. The present work features detailed interring gas dynamics of piston ring pack behavior in internal combustion engines. The model is developed for a ring pack with fo...

The first step was to collect, process, and examine the data from SHEBA. The meteorological data include wind speed, air temperature, and longwave and shortwave radiation. Ice core data were used to calculate an average profile of ice salinity and porosity. Snow cover variations were combined into bins to produce a time history of the fractional coverage of snow as a function of time. Ice stres...