Five children with prenatal intracerebral damage associated with neonatal isoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura are described, and characteristic neurological features listed. These include optic hypoplasia which has not been previously documented in this condition.

Heat damage to seed can occur as a result of the cumulative effects of respiration and fungal heating, and by the accumulation and retention of radiant heat within the seed mass following harvest both situations being collectively referred to as ‘field heating’. Another type of heating damage occurs in heated air drying systems. Excessive drying air temperature can have deleterious effects on s...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an umbrella term for a range of liver conditions affecting people who drink little to no alcohol. As the name implies, the main characteristic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is too much fat stored in liver cells. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, a potentially serious form of the disease, is marked by liver inflammation, which may progress to scarrin...

T. Figlus, M. Stańczyk, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Transport, Katowice, Poland This paper presents a method of diagnosing damage to rolling bearings in toothed gears of processing lines. The research has shown the usefulness of vibration signal measurements performed with a laser vibrometer and of the method of denoising signals by means of a discrete wavelet transform in...

A finite element model has been created to quantify the thermal fatigue damage of the CPV die attach. Simulations are used to compare to results of empirical thermal fatigue equations originally developed for accelerated chamber cycling. While the empirical equations show promise when extrapolated to the lower temperature cycles characteristic of weather-induced temperature changes in the CPV d...

The applicability of acoustic emission (AE) techniques to monitor the mechanism of evolution of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber concrete damage under temperature fatigue loading is investigated. Using the temperature fatigue test, real-time AE monitoring data of PVA fiber concrete is achieved. Based on the AE signal characteristics of the whole test process and comparison of AE signals of PVA fib...

This paper presents a novel condition monitoring method for rolling bearings, based on measuring the electric bearing impedance. The can diagnose presence of damage by frequency-domain analysis, and its extension along raceway time-domain analysis. latter enables assessment severity progression damage. A fatigue test shows that occurrence pittings in raceways causes characteristic peaks impedan...

in this paper, a crack localization method for euler-bernoulli beams via an efficient static data based indicator is proposed. the crack in beams is simulated here using a triangular variation in the stiffness. static responses of a beam are obtained by the finite element modeling. in order to reduce the computational cost of damage detection method, the beam deflection is fitted through a poly...

results of damage prediction in buildings can be used as a useful tool for managing and decreasing seismic risk of earthquakes. in this study, damage spectrum and c4.5 decision tree algorithm were utilized for damage prediction in steel buildings during earthquakes. in order to prepare the damage spectrum, steel buildings were modeled as a single-degree-of-freedom (sdof) system and time-history...

1 Characteristic 0 We start with a basic question: given a polynomial f ∈ C[z1, · · · , zn] with a singularity at 0, how can we measure the “singularness” of this polynomial in a precise way? In other words: we can look at various singularities and see intuitively that some singularities are worse than others. For instance, it feels like a transverse self-intersection is probably not as bad as ...