The purpose of this study is to research the possibility producing structural electronics with powder bed Binder Jetting (BJ) technique. adaptation BJ ZPrinter 450 printer for deposition silver nanoparticle inks and fabrication conductive paths using commercially available consumables was successfully carried out. included testing influence different orientations printed substrates also checkin...

This paper focuses on the identification of disfluent sequences and their distinct structural regions, based on acoustic and prosodic features. Reported experiments are based on a corpus of university lectures in European Portuguese, with roughly 32h, and a relatively high percentage of disfluencies (7.6%). The set of features automatically extracted from the corpus proved to be discriminant of...

17 18 Over the last decade, terrestrial laser scanning and digital terrestrial photogrammetry techniques have 19 been increasingly used in the geometrical characterization of rock slopes. These techniques provide 20 innovative remote sensing tools which overcome the frequent problem of rock slope inaccessibility. 21 Comprehensive datasets characterizing the structural geological setting and geo...

The article uses confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) as a template to explain didactically multilevel structural equation models (ML-SEM) and to demonstrate the equivalence of general mixed-effects models and ML-SEM. An intuitively appealing graphical representation of complex ML-SEMs is introduced that succinctly describes the underlying model and its assumptions. The use of definition variable...

Part one of this series investigated the adequacy of current models used to forecast bed demand. This part explores the issues surrounding the correct level of occupancy required to deliver effective and safe health care. Economy of scale as explained by queuing theory is a significant factor in understanding bed occupancy. However, irrespective of the occupancy specific to different sized hosp...

We survey the progress (or lack thereof!) that has been made on some questions about the p-adic slopes of modular forms that were raised by the first author in [Buz05], discuss strategies for making further progress, and examine other related questions.

BACKGROUND Outcome after mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) is determined largely by the appearance of post-traumatic complaints (PTC). The prevalence of PTC after six months is estimated to be between 20 and 80%. Bed rest has been advocated to prevent PTC but its effectiveness has never been established. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of bed rest on the severity of PTC after MTBI. METHOD...