Water quality has several aspects and brings together professionals with different back‐ grounds, which have diverse roles, participate and contribute in their own way and look at water quality issues from different perspectives. One of possible distinctions of roles is that on one side we have the providers of results of chemical analyses and on the other the users of these results. The provid...

With increased interest in integrating environmental justice into the process for developing environmental regulations in the United States, analysts and decision makers are confronted with the question of what methods and data can be used to assess disproportionate environmental health impacts. However, as a first step to identifying data and methods, it is important that analysts understand w...

The presented work addresses the development of analytical tests for disturbed FM radio broadcast audio signals, in particular the discussion of improved orthogonal analyses for the detection of different kinds of disturbances in such scenarios. Two main aspects are in focus: The analyses shall predict the expected results of auditory listening tests for music and speech playback in vehicles, i...

Mechanical analyses of sediments are studied by comparison with other analyses. Both graphical and numerical methods of comparison are in use, each kind having its limitations. Two terms of a Gram-Charlier series, expressed in Krumbein's phi units, represent the data in many types of analyses, thus enabling them to be reduced to three numerical values or parameters. Graphical methods are given ...

The analytical methods available to the design engineer today are either dynamic time history analyses, or monotonic static nonlinear analyses, or equivalent static analyses with simulated inelastic influences. This paper suggests in addition to the inelastic time history analyses, some simplified analyses techniques based on equating the seismic demand expressed in terms of response spectra wi...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing need for processing and understanding relevant information generated by the systematic collection of public health data over time. However, the analysis of those time series usually requires advanced modeling techniques, which are not necessarily mastered by staff, technicians and researchers working on public health and epidemiology. Here a user-friendly tool,...

The viscoelastic properties of cells are important in predicting cell deformation under mechanical loading and may reflect cell phenotype or pathological transition. Previous studies have demonstrated that viscoelastic parameters estimated by finite element (FE) analyses of micropipette aspiration (MA) data differ from those estimated by the analytical half-space model. However, it is unclear w...

The microscopic image analysis of pancreatic Islet of Langerhans morphology is crucial for the investigation of diabetes and metabolic diseases. Besides the general size of the islet, the percentage and relative position of glucagon-containing alpha-, and insulin-containing beta-cells is also important for pathophysiological analyses, especially in rodents. Hence, the ability to identify, quant...

BACKGROUND The aetiology of pancreatic cancer (PC) has been extensively studied and is the subject of numerous meta-analyses and pooled analyses. We have summarized results from these pooled and meta-analytical studies to estimate the fraction of PCs attributable to each of the identified risk factors. METHODS Using a comprehensive strategy, we retrieved 117 meta-analytical or pooled reports ...

Background: To determine the role of drugs in fatal overdose, analyses were done on samples obtained from autopsy examination and death and crime scene investigations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of toxicology analyses of postmortem biological and non-biological samples belonging to a subject in determining the forensic cause of death. Methods: Toxicological analysi...