conclusions in middle-aged subjects with psc, we found a high rate of non-vertebral fractures and a moderately decreased bmd in lumbar spine and hip. fragility fractures had an impact on physical and mental aspects of hrqol. results in 32% of patients, bmd measured in the hip or spine was below 1.0 standard deviation. a history of fragility fractures (distal forearm and ribs) was reported in si...

Past earthquakes have demonstrated that old RC bridges may be seismically vulnerable. Bridge responses during the last decades illustrated the necessity of the seismic assessment of bridges especially those which were designed with old codes. In this research an existing concrete bridge representative of the most common bridges in the highway system in Iran are studied. Push over and nonlinear ...

The osmotic fragility of erythrocytes is known to undergo alterations when whole blood is incubated under aseptic conditions for 24 hours. The osmotic fragility of spherocytes increases considerably ( 1 ). Normal erythrocytes undergo a slight increase in fragility (2) and by contrast the osmotic fragility of leptocytes and certain other erythrocytes (3) is decreased. The sequence of events asso...

Brittle Nails Syndrome is characterized by fragility of the nail plate, affecting 27% of women. We evaluated dermatology patients in a cross-sectional study about perception of nail fragility. One hundred and thirty eight women were included, with median age of 36.5 years. Nail examination showed changes in 57% and 49% reported nail fragility. The first three fingernails were the most affected....

Abstract The latest comparative studies of climate policies reinforce the fundamental importance employing adaptation planning alongside national development strategies. While these are necessary to document and share knowledge practices experiences undertaken at level, documents still scarce on regions interest such as Central America. This article scrutinizes state through an exhaustive inves...

INTRODUCTION F OLLOWING Haden’s1#{176}demonstration of the close correlation between spherocytosis and the fragility of erythrocytes to hypotonic saline, Dameshek and Miller5 postulated that spherocytosis was a preliminary stage in the destruction of the red cell; i.e. partial hemolysis. They were able to show experimentally that the degree of spherocytosis was related to the concentration of h...

The aim of the paper is to present the Delta 20 Fragility-Rings plot and its use for robustness-fragility analysis of proportional integral (PI) and proportional integral derivative (PID) controllers. Using the Delta 20 Fragility Index and the Nyquist plot it shows the areas on the L(jω) plane corresponding to robustness-fragile, robustness-non-fragile and robustnessresilient controllers provid...

Nearly all residential houses were damaged due to 6.5 Mw earthquake in Pidie Jaya, 2016. The state of damage can be slight, moderate, and even extensive which lead the collapsing. confined masonry structure, commonly found Aceh, especially for housing construction, seemingly prone excitation. In this paper, analytical-based fragility curves are employed typical house structure. To account vario...

A multi-dimensional definition of fragility is developed considering multiple variables such as floor acceleration and interstory drifts. The limit states which have uncertainties are defined as random variables in the calculation of fragility. A random description of the limit state has been adopted to calculate fragility and different cases have been considered. A case study of a Hospital loc...

In the literature there is no clear evidence of a relationship between thyropathies and fragility fractures. The aim of our study is to define the prevalence of thyroid disease in a study sample made up of subjects with fragility fractures and from the same geographical area. We retrospectively studied the "hospital discharge records" (HDR) in the Apulian Database for the period 2008-2013 in or...