Background: The interaction between the blood and the vessel wall is of great clinical interest in studying cardiovascular diseases, the major causes of death in developed countries.Objective: To understand the effects of incorporating fluid-structure interaction into the simulation of blood flow through an anatomically realistic model of abdominal aorta and renal arteries reconstructed from CT...

In Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) pavement of the roads, dowels bar transfers vehicle loading to the unloaded slab. Load Transfer Efficiency (LTE) is used to evaluate dowel bars in PCC pavement. This parameter is defined as the vertical displacement ratio of the loaded slab versus the unloaded slab. In this study, the impact of effective factors (friction coefficient between dowel and concrete ...

Hydrological drought analysis using SDI index in Halilrud basin of Iran Abstract Nowadays, drought is considered as damaging environmental phenomenon which affects natural resources and social communities. Therefore it will be an important issues that magnitude and effects of these phenomena to be considered. To do this we used L-moment method for regional homogeneity testing. The Streamflow Dr...

Exercise is one of the best therapies, if not the best, for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes. Kondo, Araki, Kai and colleagues, in this issue of EBioMedicine, introduce a device that mimics exercise (1). When applied to subjects with metabolic syndrome (MS) or type 2 diabetes (t2DM) the therapy improves the diverse parameters inherit to metabolic syndrome (MS) and type 2 diabetes...

objective: this study was designed to compare the stress produced at the pdl of abutment teeth with two angles of cervical convergence, in otherwise similar settings. materials and methods: two finite element models were designed for a second premolar and a removable partial denture frame containing an i-bar clasp. maximum principal stress (s1) and von mises stress (seqv) were assessed along a ...

Forty-six mining-induced seismic events with moment magnitude between -1.2 and 2.1 that possibly caused damage were studied. The events occurred between 2008 and 2013 at mining level 850–1350 m in the Kiirunavaara Mine (Sweden). Hypocenter locations were refined using from 6 to 130 sensors at distances of up to 1400 m. The source parameters of the events were re-estimated using spectral analysi...