Recent industrial developments have focused more and on the applications of lightweight foamed concrete (LFC) in construction industry, having advantages over normal-strength concrete. LFC, however, has several drawbacks including brittleness, high porosity, excessive drying shrinkage, rapid cracking, low deformation resistance. Practical engineering typically chooses steel fiber or polymer to ...

The stability control of nominal frequency and terminal voltage in an interconnected power system (IPS) is always a challenging task for researchers. load variation or any disturbance affects the active reactive demands, which badly influence normal working IPS. In order to maintain at rated values, controllers are installed generating stations keep these parameters within prescribed limits by ...

A limitation in the use of invasive coronary diagnostic indexes is that fluctuations in hemodynamic factors such as heart rate (HR), blood pressure, and contractility may alter resting or hyperemic flow measurements and may introduce uncertainties in the interpretation of these indexes. In this study, we focused on the effect of fluctuations in HR and area stenosis (AS) on diagnostic indexes. W...

Exoplanets can be detected from a time series of stellar spectra by looking for small, periodic shifts in the absorption features that are consistent with Doppler shifts caused by the presence of an exoplanet, or multiple exoplanets, in the system. While hundreds of large exoplanets have already been discovered with the Doppler technique (also called radial velocity), our goal is to improve the...

BACKGROUND Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) can lead to flow impairment quantification using PET coronary flow reserve (CFRp: ratio of stress flow to rest flow) and is superior to the current standard, single-photon emission computed tomography. In this study, our first aim was to assess the benefit of CFRp in place of invasive CFR (CFRi) by comparing the correlations of each of the i...

BACKGROUND In Phase 2/3 studies of basal insulin peglispro (BIL) compared to insulin glargine, patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes previously treated with insulin and randomized to BIL had an increase in serum triglycerides (TGs). To further understand lipoprotein changes, a lipid substudy which included liver fat content was designed to assess relationships among the measured variables for...