Harbour seals can use their vibrissal system to detect and follow hydrodynamic trails left by moving objects. In this study we determined the maximum time after which a harbour seal could indicate the moving direction of an artificial fish tail and analysed the hydrodynamic parameters allowing the discrimination. Hydrodynamic trails were generated using a fin-like paddle moving from left to rig...

Reconstruction of a composite maxillary defect is frequently performed with a fibular osteocutaneous free flap to address both the bony and mucosal defect. If during the harvest of the fibula a distal skin perforator is not present due to vascular variations, reconstruction can potentially be done using the soleus muscle for filling of the palatal mucosal defect. An additional challenge arises ...

We propose a method of controlling the paddle so as to return the ball to a desired point on the table with a specified flight duration. The proposed method consists of the following three input-output maps implemented by means of Locally Weighted Regression (LWR): (1) A map for predicting the impact time of the ball hit by the paddle and the ball position and velocity at that moment according ...

Drying is a necessary step before sewage sludge energetic valorization. Paddle dryers allow working with such a complex material. However, little is known about sludge flow in this kind of processes. This study intends to set up an original methodology for sludge residence time distribution (RTD) measurement in a continuous paddle dryer, based on the detection of mineral tracers by X-ray fluore...

Juggling is a typical example to represent dexterous tasks of humans. There are many kinds of juggling, e.g., the ball juggling and club juggling in Fig. 1. Other kinds are the toss juggling, bouncing juggling, wall juggling, wall juggling, box juggling, devil sticks, contact juggling and so on. These days, readers can watch movies of these juggling in the website youtube and must be surprised ...

Dissolution testing is useful for controlling the quality of an oral generic equivalent (GE) drug and rejecting a bioinequivalent GE. However, several sources of variability in dissolution tests can affect evaluations of drug quality. Recently, we reported that shifting the paddle shaft off-center significantly changed the dissolution rate of sodium diclofenac tablets, with the result that some...

BACKGROUND The skin paddle of the fibula osteoseptocutaneous flap is reliably vascularized by septocutaneous perforators from the peroneal artery. However, in 5 to 10 percent of lower limbs, these perforators are absent. This anatomical study evaluated use of the soleus musculocutaneous perforator for skin paddle salvage in such situations. METHODS Latex injection studies were performed on 20...

Although not listed on the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), like standard USP 2, small volume USP 2 dissolution apparatus has gained a great deal of attention, especially for cases where small amount of drug product is available for testing in research and design step or evaluations are to be made on a tablet containing trace amounts of the active pharmaceutical ingredient. In this work, first...

The performance of the electric submersible pump (ESP) significantly affected by Gas Void Fraction (GVF). Thus, using of a Rotary Gas Separator (RGS) is a suitable solution for this issue. The performance of the RGS is function of different parameters such as geometry of impeller, rotating speed, boundary conditions, media viscosity and GVF. In this study, the influences of GVF, viscosity, and ...

Drug dissolution studies are commonly conducted using compendial methods employing USP Paddle and Basket apparatuses. In many cases, dissolution studies can be of limited benefit especially for product-dependent dissolution procedures like in extended release (ER) formulations. The high variability in dissolution testing, that is not productrelated, emphasizes the need for developing new method...