Patients developing the short bowel syndrome (SBS) are at risk for hepatobiliary disease, as are morbidly obese individuals. We hypothesized that morbidly obese SBS individuals would be at increased risk for developing hepatobiliary complications. We reviewed 79 patients with SBS, 53 patients with initial body mass index (BMI) < 35 were controls. Twenty-six patients with initial BMI > 35 were t...

Abstract Different microstructures of the same polymer-modified bitumen (PMB) were obtained by subjecting modified with styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) copolymer to isothermal annealing at various temperatures. The effects morphology on rheological properties SBS-modified investigated within high-temperature range. PMB quantitatively evaluated using image analysis. A dynamic shear rheometer was...

Abstract This research article investigates the influence of oxidized polyethylene (PE) polymer on rheological and performance properties SBS modified bitumen at an optimum dose 0.5 % by weight. To evaluate impact PE different testing such as indirect tensile strength resilient modulus was conducted blended bituminous concrete mixes rheology determined using dynamic shear rheometer. It conclude...

Increasingly, software is no longer developed as a single system, but rather as a smart combination of so-called software services. Each of these provides an independent, specific and relatively small piece of functionality, which is typically accessible through the Internet from internal or external service providers. There are no standards or models that describe the sourcing process of these...

Quality attributes (QA) play a fundamental role when architecting software systems. However, in contrast to QA in traditional software systems, the role of QA when architecting service-based systems (SBS) has not yet been studied in depth. Thus, we conducted a descriptive survey to explore how QA are treated during the architecting of SBS. Data were collected using an online questionnaire targe...

PURPOSE To evaluate if bovine enamel and dentin are appropriate substitutes for the respective human hard tooth tissues to test shear bond strength (SBS) and fracture analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS 80 sound and caries-free human erupted third molars and 80 freshly extracted bovine permanent central incisors (10 specimens for each group) were used to investigate enamel and dentine adhesion of...

When temperatures drop to significantly low levels, road pavements are subjected thermally-induced stresses, resulting in the appearance of thermal cracking, among other distresses. In these situations, polymers can be used as asphalt binder modifiers improve certain properties, such elastic recovery, cohesion, and ductility. Polymers also minimize some problems mixtures, fatigue cracking perma...

A multilaboratory investigation into the durability of glass fiber–reinforced polymer (GFRP) bars extracted from eleven 15- to 20-year-old bridges in US will be performed. Part 1 (Benzecry et al., forthcoming) this two-paper series describes and presents data on condition their concrete, 2 focuses bars. Constituent content, maximum water absorption, as-received moisture transition temperature (...

The Single Frontier Bi-Directional Search (SBS) framework was recently introduced. A node in SBS corresponds to a pair of states, one from each of the frontiers and it uses front-tofront heuristics. In this paper we present an enhanced version of SBS, called eSBS, where pruning and caching techniques are applied, which significantly reduce both time and memory needs of SBS. We then present a hy...

Original scientific paper In this paper a method for throughput performance calculation of shuttle based storage and retrieval systems (SBS/RS) is presented. SBS/RS represent a new technology in automated storage and retrieval systems. Since it is important to design SBS/RS right the first time due to the relative inflexibility of the physical layout, we provide a proposed method for the throug...