The article presents the results of static tests a strip foundation fragment, strengthened with bored pile, which has an enlarged pile base at its lower end. To evaluate obtained, were also carried out for load fragment without strengthening and separately located base. According to data obtained during load, dependence graphs constructed: settlements from pressure under toe settlement indentat...

OBJECTIVES To compare the clinical and radiological outcomes after closed reduction (CR) and open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) in the management of subcondylar fractures. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-eight patients presenting with subcondylar fracture between January 2010 and March 2013 were evaluated retrospectively. Fifteen patients were treated with CR and 33 patients with ORIF. T...

The Coulomb explosion of K-shell ionized krypton clusters with an average size N of 160 has been studied by electron-multiple-ion-coincidence measurements in which the time-of-flight (TOF) of ions was measured by using a position sensitive detector. The authors have sorted the TOF spectra by the number of coincidence ion signals, Ncoin, and found that singly charged fragment ions such as Kr+, K...

The fragment-size distributions of raw carrot diced or crushed using a food mixer are studied experimentally. For the 5-mm-square carrot, normal distribution shows characteristic feature fragmentation statistics. This simple result indicates that most random errors contribute to fluctuation. On other hand, for cumulative fragment size follows power law where exponent \(\alpha \simeq 1.62 > 1\)....

We study reversible polymerization of rings. In this stochastic process, two monomers bond and, as a consequence, two disjoint rings may merge into a compound ring or a single ring may split into two fragment rings. This aggregation-fragmentation process exhibits a percolation transition with a finite-ring phase in which all rings have microscopic length and a giant-ring phase where macroscopic...

We determined the size characteristics of foragers of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens in a mature eucalyptus forest in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, at daytime (7:30 to 10:00 hr) and nighttime (19:00 to 23:00 hr). There were no significant differences between daytime and nighttime ant mass (Ma), but leaf fragment mass (Ml) and burden (B = [Ma + Ml]/Ma), which indicates ...

and Conservation, Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects 49, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-7666-5_15, © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract Understanding the strategies that primates use to survive in fragmented forest landscapes is vital for constructing informed management plans for specific regions and to enable researchers to start to make generalizations. In a 15-m...