Local degradation of critical currents in REBa2Cu3Oy (REBCO, RE: rare-earth and Y) coated conductor is one the serious issues especially for high field superconducting magnets. It may give rise to a localized hotspot, followed by burn-out magnet. To mitigate such phenomena, co-winding bundled two REBCO conductors considered. The double pancake coil with local damaged area was made tested LN2 co...

Image restoration is an important topic in the area of image processing because its techniques are useful to recover images degraded during a capturing process (Bovik, 2005). There are a wide range of degradations in real world, such as blurring (i.e. camera motion capture process), nonuniform illumination, cloud environments (fog, clouds, smoke), noise (white noise, impulse noise, etc.), and d...

The paper presents chosen results of research on the lumbar-chest part of spine and the spine-fixator complex. Spines were gathered from cadavers. Both damaged and undamaged spines with and without fixator were investigated. Two types of fixator were used: a CD and a modified Zespol fixator (our idea)--marked as P. In the research, compression/distraction forces were applied. The analysis is ba...

This study employs a novel method, gas sorption (1), to quantify the porosity characteristics of hair by determining total pore volume, adsorption pore-size distribution, and the surface area of damaged hair. Damage mechanisms were studied by comparing the different pore volume and surface area resulting from two different types of damage: chemical and UV. Hair color measurement and tensile str...

Wide Area Networks have different performance characteristics compared with Local Area Networks. Their throughput is usually lower and there is a greater chance of information being dropped, damaged or delayed. Furthermore software that is developed for dependable applications over wide area networks may frequently be tested in a LAN environment where it is difficult to reproduce the characteri...

anastrepha bezzii (diptera: tephritidae) larvae are common inside fruits of sterculia chicha (malvaceae) in minas gerais state, brazil. the seed dormancy and attack by a. bezzii of the native species s.chicha can be detrimental to seed germination and thus the natural spread of this plant. the objectives of the current study were to compare ecological observations of a. bezzii and s. chicha in ...

Visually evoked cortical potentials were studied in six patients with a homonymous and six with a bitemporal hemianopia by presenting a pattern-reversal stimulus separately to a temporal or nasal retinal area and by recording the responses from leads over the hemispheres. Homonymous visual field defects are characterized by a reduction of VECPs from the affected hemisphere. The disturbance of V...

Three patients with a persistent vegetative state after severe head injury are reported. They recovered from a prolonged disturbance of consciousness after the administration of levodopa. These patients all had parkinsonian features. On magnetic resonance imaging, the distribution of lesions implied a diffuse axonal injury involving the substantia nigra or ventral tegmental area. The existence ...

1 Therapeutic interventions aimed at preventing MODS The terms multiple organ failure syndrome (MOFS), multiple systems organ failure (MSOF) and, most recently, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) have all been used to describe ‘irreversible shock’ and organ failure. Summarised the causes of irreversible shock are: (1) Haemorrhage uncomplicated by gross trauma; (2) burns; (3) trauma to l...

We reveal the source rupture process using the strong-motion data by the inversion analysis. The derived slip distribution shows one prominently large slip area extending from the hypocentre area to the shallow part of the fault along the trench axis, which is located far off the coastal region extensively damaged by the tsunamis. The shallow main rupture started 60 seconds after the initial br...