the use of mammography film-screen is limited in general radiography. the purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of mammographic film-screen and standard film-screen systems in the detection of small bone fractures. radiographs were taken from patients' extremities and neck areas using mammography film-screen and standard film-screen (n=57 each). fourteen other radiographs were ...

factor  is introduced for direct head loss calculation and sizing in dual-diameter laterals of sprinkler and trickle irrigation systems when the hazen-williams equation is to be applied. application of this factor prevents trial and error and uses fewer head-loss equations in calculating the total friction loss and designing dual-diameter laterals. the proposed factor is a function of total num...

This paper considers the problem of interconnect wire delay in digital integrated circuits. The correct wire sizing and buffer insertion/sizing can reduce the interconnect delay. The interconnect wire is divided into segments and to optionally buffers are inserted between two adjacent segments. But it is important to select appropriate values for the size of buffers as well as the lengths and w...

there are instances in which it is desirable to determine relationships among fruit physical attributes. for example, fruits are often graded on the basis of size and projected area, but it may be more suitable and/or economical to develop a machine which grades by mass. therefore, a relationship between mass and dimensions or projected areas and/ or volume of fruits is needed. various grad...

The present study describes the development and initial validation of a new obesity-specific, self-report measure of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for children aged 5-13 years. Participants included 141 obese children (mean age=9.2 years, 67% female, 55% black, mean zBMI=2.52) and their primary caregivers. Children completed Sizing Me Up (obesity-specific HRQOL) and the PedsQL (generic...

An environmentally friendly and inexpensive substitute to the widely used poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) has been developed from soy proteins for textile warp sizing. Textile processing is the major source of industrial water pollution across the world, and sizing and desizing operations account for nearly 30 % of the water consumed in a textile plant. PVA is one of the most common sizing agents use...

A variety of Software Sizing approaches have been conjectured in the literature. While many of these approaches have been used for Software Cost Estimation, none were specifically designed for Software Costing. This paper reviews current methods of Software Sizing to determine their suitability for Software Cost Estimation. The approach differs from previous approaches in that it is based on a ...

Konferenzbeschreibung Die IWSM/MetriKon/MENSURA 2008 wurde im vergangenen Jahr von der GI-Fachgruppe 2.1.10 Software-Messung und Bewertung, der kanadischen Gesellschaft für Metrikenanwendung in Montreal (CRIM) und dem Common Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC), der Deutsch-sprachigen Anwendergruppe für Software-Metrik und Aufwand-schätzung (DASMA) und der spanischen Community...

Ravindra K. Ahuja and Dorit S. Hochbaum Abstract In this paper, we study capacitated dynamic lot sizing problems with or without backorders, under the assumption that production costs are linear, that is, there are no set up costs. These two dynamic lot sizing problems (with or without backorders) are minimum cost flow problems on an underlying network that possess a special structure. We show ...