The aim of this study is to confirm the accuracy of sonography in the diagnosis of the carpal tunnel syndrome by measuring the cross-section area of the median nerve. A prospective study of 80 patients suspected of having carpal tunnel syndrome was underwent sonography at Al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Samawa city from 1/1/2015 to 1/1/2016. The cross sectional area of the median nerve was meas...

The increasing need for railway planning and design to connect growing cities in inland mountainous areas has pushed engineering efforts toward the research of tracks that must comply with more restrictive constraints. In this study, a multiobjective alignment optimization (HAO), commonly used highway projects, was carried out identify better solution constructing high-speed track considering t...

This paper identifies key subspaces for better disease management. Disease affects individuals differently based on features such as age, race, and gender. The authors use data mining methods to discover which key factors of a disease are more relevant for particular strata of the population using bin wise clustering. The authors use a case study on Metabolic Syndrome (MetS). MetS is a combinat...

Abstract For tunnel deformation analysis using traditional measurement methods to obtain section data, there are problems such as small data coverage and low efficiency. 3D laser scanning technology has the advantages of automatic, high precision efficiency in collecting point cloud target object, can completely accurately express entity. Based on acquired by scanner, engineering modeling resea...

An investigation into the total blockage effects on aerodynamic drag in closed-wall wind tunnel testing has been carried out by computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The simulation of flow past two different realistic, full-scale, heavy-duty truck models was conducted. The models were placed at different yawing angles in the virtual wind tunnels with blockage ratio of about 10%; which is exactly ...

The simplified Bernoulli relationship appears to be quite accurate for predicting gradients across discrete valvular obstructions. Controversy exists about how accurately it predicts the severity of disease in longer segment obstructions. In this study we constructed a pulsatile model of subvalvular pulmonary stensosis in vitro to study nine custom-made subvalvular tunnels 2, 4, and 7 mm in len...

Elastic solutions applicable to single underground openings usually suffer from geometry related simplification. Most tunnel shapes possess two axes of symmetry while a wide range of geometries used in tunneling practice involve only one symmetry axis. D-shape or horse-shoe shape tunnels and others with arched roof and floor are examples of the later category (one symmetry axis). In the present...