In the dynamic modeling of dairy cow performance over a full lactation, the difference between net energy intake and net energy used for maintenance, growth, and output in milk accumulates in body reserves. A simple dynamic model of net energy balance was constructed to select, out of some common dry matter intake (DMI) prediction equations, the one that resulted in a minimum cumulative bias in...

rockfill dams are accounted as useful measures in watershed management projects. how-ever, the sediment transport through the rockfill materials, could impact their lifetime duration. previously, researches have been conducted to describe the various hydraulically issues of the flow passing through these structures however; there is no general relationship to estimate the sediment transport rat...

BACKGROUND Validated risk equations are currently recommended to assess individuals to determine those at 'high risk' of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, there is no longer a risk 'equation of choice'. AIM This study examined the differences between four commonly-used CVD risk equations. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional analysis of individuals who participated in a workplace-based r...

A theoretical model is developed to consider the effect of demulsifier agent on demulsification of water-in-crude oil emulsion. A thermodynamic approach is considered to correlate the critical micelle concentration of a demulsifier to the collision frequency function in population balance equation (PBE). Based on the proposed correlation, the collision frequency function is modified to account ...

     Heat transfer mechanisms and the solidification process are simulated for a continuous casting machine and the geometric shape of the liquid pool is predicted considering different conditions. A heat transfer and solidification model is described for the continuous casting of steel slabs. The model has been established on the basis of the technical conditions of the slab caster in the con...

This paper simulates the temperature field generated by a high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) in a tissue-like material. The linear and nonlinear HIFU field are predicted respectively by solving the linear and nonlinear spherodial beam equations (SBE) using frequency domain method. And the temperature field is simulated by solving the “bioheat equation” with the finite-difference time-doma...

Abstract The drilling-related geomechanics requires a better understanding of the encountered formation properties such as poroelastic parameters. This paper shows set laboratory results dynamic Young’s modulus, Poisson’s ratio, and Biot’s coefficient for dry water-saturated Istebna sandstone samples under series confining pressure conditions at two different temperatures. predicted from Wyllie...

BACKGROUND Increased scrutiny and the need to institute a truly patient centered approach to surgical care has motivated the growing interest in measuring the quality of surgical care through comparative surgical audit. This study aimed to assess the validity of the POSSUM (Physiological and Operative Severity Score for enumeration of Mortality and Morbidity) and P-POSSUM (Portsmouth-POSSUM) sc...

A general equation was derived, which directly describes the mathematical relationship between the allometrically predicted pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters in humans and the body weights of animal species (along with their corresponding measured PK parameters). It was shown, with use of the derived equation, that the predicted values in humans, based on combinations of animal species commonly u...