OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to reveal the efficacy of mud pack treatment in patients with knee osteoarthritis and to find the contribution of chemical factors to the build up of these effects. METHODS Sixty patients were randomly assigned to directly applied mud pack (study) group or to nylon-covered mud pack (control) group. Thirty patients in the study group had mud application 15 t...

In the MIMO-OFDM systems, the traditional methods of multi-user detection have some limitations in the rank-deficient scenarios, where the number of supported users exceeds the number of receiver antennas. The multiuser detection (MUD) based on the genetic simulated annealing algorithm (GSAA) is proposed for the rankdeficient problems in the multi-user MIMO-OFDM system. The simulation results s...

This paper is devoted to the application of new low cost ceramic ultrafi ltration membranes material coming from the Tunisian ores (mud) which is usually considered as disastrous for the environment. A ceramic tubular support previously elaborated from mud was coated in the lumen side by slip casting method. After sintering at 650°C, the coated membrane shows homogeneou...

sore has appeared among the class of people (not necessarily poor) who, during a heavy rainy season, walked in mud and worked in marshy localities, barefooted. Forty-five inches of rain, mud and marshy conditions?and Naga sore were not previously known to this place. The same thing happened in Benares last summer, when heavy rainfall flooded the area, resulting in mud and marsh so that Naga sor...

Conventional Multi-User Detection (MUD) algorithms for the Multi-Input, Multi-Output-Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) system fail to consider the detection performance and algorithm complexity simultaneously. To address this problem, a new Joint Intelligent MUD (JI-MUD) algorithm that aims to improve the MUD performance of the MIMO-OFDM system and to reduce the complexity ...

A generically applicable hybrid MultiUser Detector (MUD) concept is proposed by appropriately activating different MUDs in consecutive turbo iterations based on the Mutual Information (MI) gain. It is demonstrated that the proposed hybrid MUD is capable of approaching the optimal Bayesian MUD’s performance despite its reduced complexity, which is at a modestly increased complexity in comparison...

The fate of phosphate added to fishponds and the inorganic processes of phosphorus fixation were studied in Israel. Conditions in these ponds are different from those of the more humid climatic zones in having alkaline water and high calcium content. In these condi tions most of the phosphorus added is precipitated as Ca3(P04)2. rctical aspects of this are discussed. The quantitative theobottom...

In this paper, the decision-level data fusion techniques are extended to the multiuser detection (MUD) field. Then two novel MUD algorithms, that is the chairman arbitrating decision-level fusion criterion (CA-DFC) based MUD algorithm and the veto logic decision-level fusion criterion (VL-DFC) based MUD algorithm, are proposed for DS-UWB communication systems. In CA-DFC based method, the chairm...

Submarine mud volcanoes are a significant source of methane to the atmosphere. The Napoli mud volcano, situated in the brine-impacted Olimpi Area of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, emits mainly biogenic methane particularly at the centre of the mud volcano. Temperature gradients support the suggestion that Napoli is a cold mud volcano with moderate fluid flow rates. Biogeochemical and molecular ...