Penetration of projectiles was measured for hemispherical and conical nose shapes penetrating granular media. Targets were beds of Ottawa sand and Eglin sand. Projectiles were rigid metals. Experimental parameters that were varied included velocity (from 300 to 600 m/s), nose shape, sand density, and scale (from 5 mm to 20 mm). Strong evidence for scale effects is found: 5 mm diameter projectil...

BACKGROUND The efficiency of nasal surgeries can be determined by objective or subjective methods. We have assessed the effect of nasal obstruction after different nasal surgeries using Acoustic Rhinometry (AR) and Nasal Obstruction Symptom Evaluation (NOSE) Scale. METHODS Between May 2011 and May 2012, 40 young adult patients and 10 healthy volunteers as control group who referred to Otorhin...

background: despite the great number of cosmetic rhinoplasties, there are few studies on the improvement of self-concept and patient satisfaction with nose fitness. objectives: this study attempted to examine the variability of self-concept and patient satisfaction with nose fitness before and after cosmetic rhinoplasty through three to six months of follow-up. materials and methods: under a pr...

Wildlife and plant diseases can reduce biodiversity, disrupt ecosystem services and threaten human health. Emerging pathogens have displayed a variety of spatial spread patterns due to differences in host ecology, including diffusive spread from an epicentre (West Nile virus), jump dispersal on a network (foot-and-mouth disease), or a combination of these (Sudden oak death). White-nose syndrome...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to compare the treatment efficacy of middle turbinate lateral lamella resection alone with septoplasty plus middle turbinate lateral lamella resection for nasal stuffiness in two patient groups using the nasal obstruction symptom evaluation (NOSE) scale in patients with concomitant minimal nasal septum deviation and concha bullosa. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 80...

Abstract Introduction Nasal obstruction is a common patient complaint in the sleep clinic. The nasal symptom evaluation (NOSE) scale validated questionnaire to assess symptoms and quality of life. However, it has weaknesses when evaluating patients clinic because does not differentiate awake related obstruction. Our primary goal was compare old NOSE new that separates Methods A retrospective st...

Detection of facial features such as eye, nose, and mouth is an important step for many subsequent facial image analysis tasks such as face recognition. In this paper, we introduce a method to detect eye and nose fields from gray scale facial images. The Independent Components Analysis (ICA) is utilized to learn the appearance and shape of the facial feature. The regions with high response to t...

Sixteen larvae fell from the nose of a 16-year-old girl, who had been hospitalized in the anesthesia intensive care unit for 4 days because of a traffic accident and had been evaluated as E1M2V1 according to Glaskow Coma Scale. These larvae were examined macroscopically and microscopically and it was determined that they were second stage Sarcophage spp. larvae. There was no lesion in the nose ...