Leaks in Water Distribution Networks (WDNs) account for a large proportion of Non-Revenue (NRW) utilities worldwide. Typically, leak is only confirmed once water surfaces, allowing the to be traced; however, high percentage leaks may never surface, incurring losses and costs utilities. Active Leak Detection (ALD) methods can used detect hidden leaks; success such highly dependent on available d...

Monemdjou, Shadi, Leslie P. Kozak, and Mary-Ellen Harper. Mitochondrial proton leak in brown adipose tissue mitochondria of Ucp1-deficient mice is GDP insensitive. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Endocrinol. Metab. 39): E1073–E1082, 1999.— Mice deficient in mitochondrial uncoupling protein (UCP) 1 are cold sensitive, despite abundant expression of the homologues, Ucp2 and Ucp3 (S. Enerbäck, A. Jacobsson, ...

conclusions the early signs and symptoms of iscls may be subtle; therefore the diagnosis can easily be missed and prompt treatment of the syndrome may be postponed. thus, the clinician must consider iscls in differential diagnosis in cases of hypotension, hemoconcentration, and hypoalbuminemia. case presentation we present a 58-year-old female who presented with peripheral edema, leg pain, and ...

Considering the importance of monitoring pipeline systems, this work presents the development of a technique to detect gas leakage in pipelines, based on an acoustic method, and on-line prediction of leak magnitude using artificial neural networks. On-line audible noises generated by leakage were obtained with a microphone installed in a 60 m long pipeline. The sound noises were decomposed into...

This thesis describes an approach that uses reinforcement learning together with distributed perception network fusion systems in order to perform mobile sensor control. A case study of such mobile sensors is the chemical leak detection problem. The proposed solution deals with partial observability of the true state and makes use of linear function approximation to learn a value function that ...

background: proposing a strategy for sellar reconstruction in endoscopic transsphenoidal transsellar approach for pituitary adenoma. methods: 240 patients with pituitary adenoma underwent pure endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery. intra-operative csf leaks were classified as grade 0, no observable leak grade 1, csf dripping through an arachnoid membrane defect of less than 1 mm and grad...