An experiment featuring waterhammer in viscoelastic pipes is presented in which the effects of pipe-wall viscoelasticity on waterhammer pressures are investigated. A large-scale pipeline apparatus made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) at Deltares, Delft, The Netherlands, has been used to carry out waterhammer experiments. Tests have been conducted in a reservoir-pipeline-valve system consisting of a...

Predicting data transfer throughput of cloud networks plays an important role in several resource optimization applications, such as auto-scaling, replica selection, and load balancing. However, constant short-term variations make the prediction end-to-end a very challenging task. The parameters that affect can be categorized into three different areas: end-system characteristics (e.g., disk I/...

Achieving transparent Top-Up injection, characterized by stored beam position perturbations lower than 10% of the root mean square (rms) size beam, is very challenging for third-generation storage ring-based synchrotron light sources. The standard bump-based injection scheme used at SOLEIL 2.75-GeV ring daily operation relies on two pulsed septum magnets and four dipole kickers installed in a 1...

This procedure was developed for preservation of the rectus muscle components and deep inferior epigastric vessel after deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap harvesting. A 53-year-old woman with granuloma caused by silicone injection underwent bilateral nipple-sparing mastectomies and immediate reconstruction with "mini-flow-through" DIEP flaps. The flaps were dissected based on the s...

an experiment featuring waterhammer in viscoelastic pipes is presented in which the effects of pipe-wall viscoelasticity on waterhammer pressures are investigated. a large-scale pipeline apparatus made of polyvinyl chloride (pvc) at deltares, delft, the netherlands, has been used to carry out waterhammer experiments. tests have been conducted in a reservoir-pipeline-valve system consisting of a...

Introduction: One of the most important causes of death in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and even after kidney transplantation is cardiovascular diseases. Thus, cardiac evaluation is of utmost importance in the management of these patients especially during preoperative work up before renal transplantation. The aim of present study is to evaluate the role of myoc...

A simple, reproducible, and rapid gas chromatographic method for short-chain fatty acid determination in human feces was developed. It involves direct injection of fecal supernatants into the gas chromatograph, without any pretreatment. Contamination of the gas chromatographic column with nonvolatile fecal material was prevented by the use of a glass liner in the injector. This liner, which act...

The 99mTc-complex of NC100668 [Acetyl-Asn-Gln-Glu-Gln-Val-Ser-Pro-Tyr(3-iodo)-Thr-Leu-Leu-Lys-Gly-NC100194] is being evaluated for nuclear medical imaging of venous thromboembolism. NC100668 is a 13-amino acid peptide with a Tc-binding chelator [NC100194; -NH-CH2-CH2-N(CH2-CH2-NH-C(CH3)2-C(CH3)=N-OH)2] linked to the C-terminal end. Following injection in rats of [Asn-U-14C]NC100668 (labeling of...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the short-term efficacy and safety over menopausal symptoms of three low-dose continuous sequential 17β-estradiol (E)/progesterone (P) parental monthly formulations using novel non-polymeric microspheres. METHODS This was a multicenter, randomized, single blinded study in which peri- and postmenopausal women were assigned to receive a monthly intramuscular injection of 0....