background: considering the negative consequences of using physical restraints, we conducted this study to identify patients who are more frequently restrained in a psychiatric emergency ward as an initial step to limit the use of restraint to the minimum possible. methods: this was a retrospective case control study conducted in iran psychiatric hospital in tehran, iran. we reviewed the files ...

A case study of retrofitting a 20-story pre-Northridge steel moment-frame building is presented. Twelve retrofit 4 schemes are developed with varying degrees of intervention. Three retrofitting techniques are considered: up5 grading the brittle beam-to-column moment resisting connections, and implementing either conventional or 6 buckling-restrained brace elements within the existing moment-fra...

EPA’s research-based regulations have fostered significant strides in environmental improvement in the United States and inspired analogous endeavors around the globe. Notably, air quality has improved (https://gispub.epa.gov/air/trendsreport/2017/#highlights) over North America and Europe in recent decades, and China and India are making concerted efforts to protect the health of their citizen...

-Usin a d u n ~ m y test driverwit11 ;i sirn~rlatecl Naccid fi>rear.rn c;rp;rble of representing either a large or zem frictiioi~ colldition, S I X powered wheelchairs were examined fc>i,r buckir~g tendencies. In the zero friction conclition, brrcking was easily inducecl in 5 of 6 testcd wheelchairs. Addillg ltiction to the simulatccl fc>rear-m prevented bucking in ;ill lestecl wheelchairs but ...

‎For any integer $kgeq 1$‎, ‎a set $S$ of vertices in a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a $k$-‎tuple total dominating set of $G$ if any vertex‎ ‎of $G$ is adjacent to at least $k$ vertices in $S$‎, ‎and any vertex‎ ‎of $V-S$ is adjacent to at least $k$ vertices in $V-S$‎. ‎The minimum number of vertices of such a set‎ ‎in $G$ we call the $k$-tuple total restrained domination number of $G$‎. ‎The maximum num...

A structural soundness monitoring system for building steel structures is effective a quick inspection just after large earthquakes. damage-controlled structure can be monitored effectively because damage strictly concentrated in energy-absorbed members, and that, this case, the physical quantity suitable displacements of those energy absorbed members. Buckling-restrained braces (also, BRB usin...

This paper compares the effects of exposure to exogenous melatonin (MEL), short days (SD, 8h of light) and long days (LD, 16 h of light), on reproductive activity, sperm motility and other reproductive variables, in Blanca Andaluza bucks. Fourteen males were spilt into two groups of seven animals (G1 and G2). They were subjected to five alternations of 2 months of LD followed by 2 months of SD ...

Background The Maastricht brace (M-brace) was developed to improve compliance and associated efficacy of brace treatment in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). Initial pressure measurements in the M-brace revealed a higher corrective pressure as compared to the Boston brace, and a better patient reported quality of life, as measured with the SRS 22 and Brace questionnaire. We present the fir...