This study presents an application of artificial neural networks (ANN) for the prediction of repeated creep test results for polypropylene (PP) modified asphalt mixtures. Polypropylene fibers are used to modify the bituminous binder in order to improve the physical and mechanical properties of the resulting asphaltic mixture. Marshall specimens, fabricated with M-03 type polypropylene fibers at...

Field populations of Xiphinerna americanum around roots of Syringa vulgaris 'President Lincoln' were larger in Marshall silty clay loam, a medially developed loess soil, than in Monona silt loam, a minimally developed loess soil. Most X. amerieanum occurred in the top 15 cm of soil, with few below 30 cm. Maximum numbers occurred in August of both years in the Marshall soil, and in August 1969 a...

The study was conducted to observe the spectrum of CT head findings in RTA presenting to a tertiary care hospital and also to correlate the clinical observations on admission with the CT findings using revised trauma score (RTS) (Foreman et al., 2007) and modified Marshall CT grading (Marshall et al., 1991) as well as the outcome of the patient. It was concluded that Modified Marshall CT Score ...

Marshall-Smith syndrome (MSS) is a rare clinical disorder, characterized by accelerated skeletal maturation, facial anomalies, failure to thrive and death in early infancy due to respiratory complications. We experienced the difficult airway case with MSS. A 4-year-old boy underwent tenosynovectomy for the snapping finger. Although his upper airway was diagnosed as almost normal on the fiber-op...

A new four-parameter model called the Marshall–Olkin exponential– Weibull probability distribution is being introduced in this paper, generalizing a number of known lifetime distributions. This model turns out to be quite flexible for analyzing positive data. The hazard rate functions of new model can be increasing and bathtub shaped. Our main objectives are to obtain representations of certain...

On March 1, 1954, the detonation of a thermonuclear device on Bikini in the Marshall Islands resulted in the accidental deposition of fallout on several inhabited atolls and on a Japanese fishing vessel. The accident was unusual in that the explosion, occurring near ground level, resulted in a heavy, particulate fallout on Rongelap and Ailingnae, about 160km away. Utirik, further to the east, e...

BACKGROUND The Marshall-Stickler phenotype is an autosomal dominant trait comprising ocular abnormalities, sensorineural hearing loss, craniofacial anomalies, and anhidrotic ectodermal dysplasia. CASE PRESENTATION A 5-year-old boy from non-consanguineous family in Austria was born with features of Pierre-Robin association (cleft palate, micrognathia, and glossoptosis). Radiological examinatio...

BACKGROUND Whether or not the muscle bundle within the ligament of Marshall (LOM) can serve as the origin of focal atrial fibrillation (AF) is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 28 consecutive patients with paroxysmal AF underwent balloon-occlusion coronary sinus angiograms to identify the vein of Marshall (VOM). Attempts were then made to advance a 1.5-French electrophysiological cathet...

It has been claimed that references to ‘Giffen behaviour’ constituted a single research project, driven by attempts to establish whether an initial ‘conjecture’ by Alfred Marshall had empirical validity. There is, however, no stable basis for that claim, in part because Marshall produced contradictory accounts of Giffen behaviour and, while he referred to the statistician Robert Giffen as the s...