Forced convection can significantly influence the heat loss from birds and their offspring but effects may be reduced by using sheltered micro-sites such as cavities or constructing nests. The structural and thermal properties of the nests of two species, the spiny-cheeked honeyeater (Acanthagenys rufogularis) and yellow-throated miner (Manorina flavigula), were measured in relation to three wi...

Variation in market weight is a major concern for swine production systems. Because of variation in growth rate and market weights, producers are forced to sort heavily to reduce the cost of weight discounts. The lighter weight end of the distribution curve is the most expensive portion of the variation because it dictates when barns can be emptied and refilled and is the weight range most disc...

The dramatic form of Exquisite Pain (2005), a recent production by the leading British performance group Forced Entertainment, can be regarded as non-standard in several respects. First of all, the performances of Forced Entertainment are so different from 'conventional' plays that they have been championed as an example of post-dramatic theatre. Since theatre and drama have at all times tested...

Thisstudy presents axially forced vibration of a cracked nanorod under harmonic external dynamically load. In constitutive equation of problem, the nonlocal elasticity theory is used. The Crack is modelled as an axial spring in the crack section. In the axial spring model, the nonrod separates two sub-nanorods and the flexibility of the axial spring represents the effect of the crack. Boundary ...

background: various variance reduction techniques such as forced detection (fd) have been implemented in monte carlo (mc) simulation of nuclear medicine in an effort to decrease the simulation time while keeping accuracy. however most of these techniques still result in very long mc simulation times for being implemented into routine use. materials and methods: convolution-based forced detectio...

background the forced oscillation technique (fot) is a non-invasive means of measuring respiratory resistance and reactance. we tested our hypothesis that endotracheal intubation would cause more substantial preoperative increases in fot parameters than a supraglottic airway device (sgd). methods forty patients requiring general anesthesia and mechanical ventilation for transurethral bladder tu...

‎a numerical technique based on the collocation method using legendre multiwavelets are‎‎presented for the solution of forced duffing equation‎. ‎the operational matrix of integration for‎‎legendre multiwavelets is presented and is utilized to reduce the solution of duffing equation‎‎to the solution of linear algebraic equations‎. ‎illustrative examples are included to demonstrate‎‎the validity...