The evaluation of the bearing capacity asphalt pavements is usually performed by analysing deflections measured a Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD). deflection changes with pavement temperature. In necessary to consider thermal gradient and perform temperature correction. article contains an analysis effects on FWD results long-term monitored sections. correction was or back-calculated elastic...

Controversy still exists on the validity of processing a partial bowl during the collection of shed blood lost through surgery during cell salvaging. The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of red blood cells produced from a partial bowl of autologous suctioned blood using the Haemonetics Cell Saver 5. Suctioned blood was collected from 17 patients undergoing cardiac surgery. A part...

BACKGROUND Hospitals are trying to improve patient hand hygiene by providing handwashing products at the bedside. Patients' compliance with handwashing depends on their satisfaction with hygiene products but no one has looked at which products patients prefer. Research on this will help hospitals target hand hygiene more appropriately and effectively. AIM To explore patient satisfaction with ...

Previous work on Georgia plantations has provided useful data about life on the large plantations on barrier islands. More recent work on small to mid-sized plantations reveals that slaves’ acquisition of ceramics may reflect more of their own decisions on what was purchased and what was used. Coarser ware frequencies indicate food preparation and storage in the slave quarters. Porcelain was of...

We study the benefits of the explicit formulas of a parametrized family of bijections and the explicit formula of a certain metric. These formulas are induced by a family of compactifications of C that ”account for all arguments of infinity”. This family of bijections map the union of C and a continuum of ideal points onto a family of spherical bowls. This family of bijections are shown to give...

Prosopagnosia describes the failure to recognize faces, a deficiency that can be devastating in social interactions. Cases of acquired prosopagnosia have often been described over the last century. In recent years, more and more cases of congenital prosopagnosia (CP) have been reported. In the present study we tried to determine possible cognitive characteristics of this impairment. We used scr...