Degradation of XLPE insulated power cables by water-trees is a primary cause of failure of these cables. The detection of water-trees and information about the severity of the degradation can be obtained with off-line measurement using dielectric spectroscopy. In many situations only a limited part of the cable may be degraded by the water-trees. In such a situation a method for localization of...

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The purpose of this research is to develop a morphologically determined scale—the Tomography Dementia Rating scale (TDR) to diagnose AD stages, based on the measurement of the severity of voluminal atrophic changes of the temporal lobes of the brain detected among patients during CT and MRI at various stages of the disease. The research included 140 patients aged 28 79. Test Group comprised 81 ...

Transmission of drug-resistant HIV-1 variants from antiretroviral treatment-experienced persons has been documented to occur through multiple routes, including sexual intercourse, intravenous drug use and vertically from mother to child. Newly infected persons with transmitted drug resistance (TDR) also act as a source for the onward transmission of resistant variants. Rates of virological supp...

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) genomes often carry one or more mutations associated with drug resistance upon transmission into a therapy-naïve individual. We assessed the prevalence and clinical significance of transmitted drug resistance (TDR) in chronically-infected therapy-naïve patients enrolled in a multi-center cohort in North America. Pre-therapy clinical significance was q...

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) thymidine kinase (TK) has been demonstrated to be important for reactivation from latency. Specifically, HSV latency-associated transcripts (LAT) are expressed during latent infection established by TK-negative (TK-) HSV mutants, but reactivation is minimal. TK- HSV, however, readily reactivated in the presence of exogenous thymidine (TdR) in explant medium [Tenser et...

A fast TDR-inversion technique for the reconstruction of spatial soil moisture content S. Schlaeger Soil Moisture Group (SMG), University of Karlsruhe, Germany SCHLAEGER – mathematical solutions, Karlsruhe, Germany Received: 2 May 2005 – Accepted: 17 May 2005 – Published: 13 June 2005 Correspondence to: S. Schlaeger ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work is licensed under a Crea...

random regression models (rrm) are used for genetic estimations of milk traits in dairy cows. rrm utilize data on traits that are repeated during the time, such as milk trait, which allows of the evaluation of the test day production information. in this study, to estimate genetic parameters for milk production trait, test day records (tdr) were collected from the first lactation of holstein co...

The time domain reflectometry (TDR) technique is a geophysical method that allows, in time-varying electric field, the determination of dielectric permittivity and electrical conductivity wide class porous materials. Measurements volumetric water content (θw) soils most frequent application TDR Soil Science Hydrology. In last four decades several studies have sought to explore potential applica...

As the package’s complexity and compactness grow, the challenge of nondestructive analysis becomes more difficult for the ultra-fine pitched interconnections and the heat spreader structures. To confront this analysis issue, the ultrafine-pitch wirebond interconnect with thermally enhanced heat spreader attached to the ball grid array (BGA) package are analyzed. Time-domain reflectometry (TDR) ...