introduction: glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness throughout the world. some studies have suggested a relationship between glaucoma and sensorineural hearing loss, while others have found no evidence of an association. we performed a study to determine whether there is a significant difference in hearing of patients with glaucoma and a match control population. methods: in this c...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: the aim of this study is to evaluate the outcome of an innovative, minimally invasive sling technique with autologous tissue in women with concomitant incontinence and anterior vaginal wall prolapse (avwp). materials and methods: fifty-six women with stress urinary incontinence (sui) or mixed urinary incontinence and avwp were randomly a...

conclusions in simultaneous bilateral patella fractures, good functional outcome can be expected following a stable surgical fixation and a structured rehabilitation regime. however, personality of the fracture determines salvage versus sacrifice of the patella. case presentation we report a rare case of isolated, traumatic bilateral patella fracture with unusual fracture patterns and briefly r...

in this study, artificial neural network was used to predict the surface tension of 20 hydrocarbon mixtures. experimental data was divided into two parts (70% for training and 30% for testing). optimal configuration of the network was obtained with minimization of prediction error on testing data. the accuracy of our proposed model was compared with four well-known empirical equations. the arti...

The tension-tension fatigue behavior of ductile adhesively-bonded double-lap FRP joints was experimentally investigated. An acrylic adhesive, which in the rubbery state at ambient temperature, provided joint ductility. degradation characterized by cyclic energy dissipation, stiffness, creep displacement and self-generated temperature. effects elevated temperature on joints’ static tensile pure ...

conclusions this biobehavioral-based multimodal physical rehabilitation treatment combining mt, tpe and mcte produced a substantial reduction in pain intensity, pain catastrophizing, disability and the impact of headaches on patient’s life. case presentation a 34-year-old woman was known to have chronic tth. initially, the patient presented moderate headaches 5 days per week, mechanical neck pa...

This paper focuses on the calculation of interfacial tension two systems: low-density polyethylene with isotactic polypropylene and high-density syndiotactic polypropylene. For this, three methods to measure are compared: use Palierne's model, Gramespacher Meissner's both based additional elasticity or long relaxation times brought by shape recovery dispersed phase, ab-initio calculation, which...

Damage progression in unidirectional (UD) composites tension-tension fatigue is vital to understanding more complex laminates and loading conditions. We therefore developed the UD model that considers fiber breaks, fiber-matrix debond growth, as well interactions of these damage modes. The contribution each mode assessed those dominate are identified. accounts for Weibull statistics strength st...