Biofouling from microorganisms, plants, barnacles, mussels or algae is a major problem for marine structures. Fouling leads to increased fuel costs due frictional resistance on ships, and reduces reserve buoyancy of floating offshore structure, in addition causing cage deformation structural fatigue, impacting endurance materials. The intrusion invasive aquatic species (IAS) new environments by...

Inherited Multicentric Osteolysis (IMO) is an uncommon familial condition of idiopathic pathophysiology causing bone osteolysis and dysplasia. These patients present with common rheumatologic complaints of pain, dysfunction and disability, and are often initially misdiagnosed as a chronic rheumatic disease of childhood such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis. We report a case of three siblings di...

The need to safely evacuate within very short time a large number of people from a confined space, such as the superstructure of large passenger ships, is a difficult task of great practical interest, as documented in recent discussions at the Marine Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organisation (MSC-IMO). This paper describes the methodology utilized by the code EVDEMON (EVacuati...

We present a three–level architecture for detection and tracking of independently moving objects (IMOs) in sequences recorded from a moving vehicle. At the first stage, image pixels with an optical flow that is not entirely induced by the car’s motion are detected by combining dense optical flow, egomotion extracted from this optical flow, and dense stereo. These pixels are segmented and an att...

The maximum rank correlation (MRC) estimator was originally studied by Han [1987. Nonparametric analysis of a generalized regression model. J. Econometrics 35, 303–316] and Sherman [1993. The limiting distribution of the maximum rank correlation estimator. Econometrica 61, 123–137] from the econometrics point of view, and most recently attracted much attention from the classification literature...

This study was to analyze some demographic variables influencing the participation of rural women in the informal sector of Imo State, Nigeria. Descriptive analysis was applied on the data collected from a survey conducted in nine Local Government Areas of Imo State. Two thousand, three hundred and forty women were selected using multistage sampling. The selection of nine LG As constituted the ...

Ginseng is known to have antistress effects. Previously, red ginseng (RG) was shown to repress stress-induced peptidyl arginine deiminase type IV (PADI4) via estrogen receptor β (ERβ) in the brain, thus inhibiting brain cell apoptosis. Moreover, tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α plays a critical role in immobilization (IMO) stress. However, the signaling pathway of RG-mediated repressesion of infla...

This study examines the role ICTs play in poverty reduction among small and medium scale (SMS) farmers in Imo State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 170 (SMS) farmers in Imo State using well structured questionnaire. Analysis of data collected was done using percentages and mean presented in tabular forms. It was seen from results that 38.2% of the respondents are within the age bracket of 51...

BACKGROUND The most commonly observed pathology in chest traumas is rib fracture, and the most important clinical symptom is severe pain. AIMS To investigate the effectiveness of intramuscular opioid (IMO), intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IVPCA) and the Fentanyl transdermal therapeutic system (TTS) in the management of rib fracture pain. STUDY DESIGN Prospective randomized clinica...