Abstract Background Cardiovascular autonomic nervous functions (CANF) exert important homeostatic mechanisms to prevent major arterial blood pressure fluctuations by adjusting heart rate (HR), cardiac contractility, and peripheral vascular tone. Children conceived assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are at risk of increased carotid intima-media thickness, insulin resistance, stiffness, hyp...

background oxidative stress plays a major pathogenic role in liver injury following chronic hepatitis b. glutathione peroxidase (gpx) has a central role in regulating the oxidative state. hepatitis b virus (hbv) results in down-regulation of gpx. on the other hand, iron homeostasis is disrupted in hbv infected patients. therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the interplay of gpx a...

the deformation and stiffness characteristics of a cemented gravely sand was investigated using triaxial equipment. the triaxial tests were conducted in both dry and saturated undrained conditions. artificially cemented samples are prepared using gypsum plaster as the cementing agent. the plaster was mixed with the base soil at the weight percentages of 1.5, 3, 4.5 and 6. the applied confining ...

the high blood rate that often occurs in arteries may play a role in artery failure and tortuosity which leads to blackouts, transitory ischemic attacks and other diseases. however, vibration and instability analysis of carotid arteries are lacking. the objective of this study is to investigate the vibration and instability of the carotid arteries conveying blood under axial tension with surrou...

This paper aims to introduce two new adaptive designs of vibration control systems. First is an absorber and the second is an isolator. Absorbers are used for suppressing unwanted vibrations, while isolators isolating them. Structural parameter changes and excitation directions significantly affect the behavior of the conventional passive controllers. A Tuned Stiffness Damper (TSD), stepper mot...

Nowadays, the increase in heavy freight rail transport and high-speed train (HST) operations has encouraged scientists to investigate dynamic response of structures under moving load using analytically numerically computational methods. In this study, analyse vibration structure, been modelled as continuous Euler-Bernoulli elastic beam system. The effects some basic parameters such track founda...

The nonlinear behavior of spudcan foundation will lead to the decrease rotational stiffness spudcan, leading increase stress at critical member offshore jack-up drilling platform. Secant is used represent value linear model when soil changes from elastic elasto-plastic and then plastic. In this paper, “wished in-place” small strain finite element analysis (SSFE) simulate load-displacement respo...

the present paper investigates the advantages of a new class of composite grid structures over conventional grids. thus far, a known grid structure such as orthogrid or isogrid has been used as an orthotropic layer with at most in-plane anisotropy. the present laminated grid is composed of various numbers of thin composite grid layers. the stiffness of the structure can be adjusted by choosing ...

One of the most famous methods to predict the stiffness of short fiber composites is micromechanical modeling. In this study, a Representative Volume Element (RVE) of a beech wood flour natural composite has been designed and the orientation averaging approach has been utilized to predict its stiffness tensor. The novelty of this work is in finding the proper fiber orientation distribution func...

In this study, a three-dimensional (3D) model is adopted to investigate the problem of fluid-seabed-structure interactions (FSSI) around offshore detached breakwaters. The Volume-Averaged Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (VARANS) equations are used simulate 3D fluid motion in vicinity breakwaters, including reflected, diffracted waves and non-linear turbulence. partially dynamic Biot’s (i.e., u−...