The mechanical properties of wet granular materials are different to those dry matter. If the medium is not completely saturated, capillary bridges form and surface tension changes elastic medium. We studied sliding friction a sledge over media found that viscosity have crucial effect on dynamic coefficient media. Higher interstitial liquid results in higher coefficient. Furthermore, viscous sh...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of arm motor impairment on actual arm use in the early post-stroke period and explore its association with self-care dependency. SUBJECTS Thirty-one patients recruited within the 30 first days after stroke. METHODS Motor impairment of the upper extremity was measured with Fugl-Meyer Motor Assessment (FMA) and arm use was measured with accelerometry. Arm moveme...

BACKGROUND The recent literature has shown that the risk of hypertension in the old strongly depends on their physical abilities. However, it is unknown whether general practitioners (GPs) adapt their treatment strategies to the patient's independence. This study was conducted to investigate the treatment intentions of GPs for patients aged 80 and older with hypertension in relation to the pati...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of group psychotherapy with transactional analysis (TA) approach on emotional intelligence (EI), executive functions and substance dependency among drug-addicts at rehabilitation centers in Mashhad city, Iran, in 2013. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, case- control stages, 30 patien...

| Objective: To empirically test the relationships proposed by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) among its domains. Method: The cross-sectional study was completed with 226 adult patients with different health conditions who attended a Brazilian rehabilitation unit. The ICF components were measured with the following instruments: World Health Organizat...

Anodized-aluminum pressure-sensitive paint (AA-PSP) has been used as a global pressure sensor for unsteady flow measurements. We use a dipping deposition method to apply a luminophore on a porous anodized-aluminum surface, controlling the luminophore concentration of the dipping method to optimize AA-PSP characteristics. The concentration is varied from 0.001 to 10 mM. Characterizations include...

Management of legacy software and its code, generally written in procedural languages, is often costly and time-consuming. To help this management, a migration from procedural to object oriented paradigm could be a cost effective option. One approach for such migration can be based on the underlying dependency structure of the procedural source code. In this work, we propose a new heuristic alg...

An improved MRF algorithm–hierarchical Gauss Markov Random Field model in the wavelet domain is presented for fabric image segmentation in this paper, which obtains the relation of inter-scale dependency from the feature field modeling and label field modeling. The Gauss-Markov random field modeling is usually adopted to feature field modeling. The label field modeling employs the inter-scale c...

An inverse problem motivated by the nondestructive testing (NDT) of adhesively bonded structures used in the aircraft industry is studied. Using transmission line theory, a model is developed which, when supplied with electrical and geometrical parameters, accurately predicts the reflection coefficient associated with such structures. Particular attention is paid to modelling the connection bet...

Abstraction of hydrogen atoms by pthalimide-N-oxyl radicals is an important step in the N-hydroxyphthalimide catalyzed autoxidation of hydrocarbons. In this contribution, the temperature dependency of this reaction is evaluated by a detailed transition state theory based kinetic analysis for the case of toluene. Tunneling was found to play a very important role, enhancing the rate constant by a...