In the hot compression test friction has a detrimental influence on the flow stress through the process and therefore, correcting the deformation curve for real behavior is very important for both researchers and engineers. In this study, a series of compression tests were simulated using Abaqus software. In this study, it has been employed the Taguchi method to design experiments by the factor...

The main object of this study was to test acquisition-retrieval deficits in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients A Spanish version of the Rey Auditory-Verbal Test (RAVLT) (Rey 1964) was used with an MS group (n=10 subjects) and a control group (n=10) Different measurements were obtained with the RAVLT memory span, a learning curve, and a curve of serial position of words The results revealed no dif...

World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) is an assessment tool and it has been applied for disability status assessment of Taiwanese dementia patients since July 2012. The aim of this study was to investigate the predicting accuracy of WHODAS 2.0 for institutionalization of dementia patients.Of these patients, 13,774 resided in a community and 4406 in a long-ter...

Methods of evaluating and comparing the performance of diagnostic tests are of increasing importance in medical science. When a test is based on an observed variable that lies on a continuous scale, an assessment of the overall value of the test can be made through the use of a Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve. The ROC curve descibes the discrimination ability of a diagnosis test f...

In the present article, a new method for the determination of the hardening law using the load displacement curve, F–h, of a spherical indentation test is developed. This method is based on the study of the error between an experimental indentation curve and a number of finite elements simulation curves. For the smaller values of these errors, the error distribution shape is a valley, which is ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate, by transcranial magnetic stimulation, the effects of valproate on silent period and corticomotor excitability. METHODS thirty patients with generalized epilepsy were studied at baseline, and re-examined 4 (S1) and 25 (S2) weeks after the administration of valproate (mean dose: 1040 +/- 284 mg). Transcranial magnetic stimulation was performed with a figure of eight co...

We present an algorithm which computes the intersection curve(s) of two free-form surfaces in 3D. The surface-surface intersection (SSI) problem is equivalent to solving an underconstrained polynomial system of three equations with four unknowns, over some domain D ∈ R. The solution of such a system is a curve in 4-space. This work extends the single solution test for a set of algebraic constra...