Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is defined as a chronic orofacial pain syndrome, without evidence of mucosal lesions and other clinical signs of disease or laboratory abnormalities. Patients with BMS complain of burning pain in the mouth, xerostomia and taste disturbances. It is more common among women and the median age of occurrence is about 60 years. BMS may be primary or secondary to other dis...

Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) is applied to study the characteristics of electromagnetic interference for power plane-battery management system (PP-BMS) enclosure, for modeling the coupling of an incident electromagnetic pulse (EMP) with a conducting wire through a BMS enclosure and aperture on it. Simulation and analysis are done by radius of the wires, incidence angles of EMP in the co...

In this study, a system for monitoring the structural health of bridge deck and predicting various possible damages to this section was designed based on measuring the temperature and humidity with the use of wireless sensor networks, and then it was implemented and investigated. A scaled model of a conventional medium sized bridge (length of 50 meters, height of 10 meters, and with 2 piers) wa...

As business model (BM) innovation has become one of management’s top priorities, anecdotal evidence suggests that firms do not have one single BM but run multiple BMs in parallel. From an academic perspective, only few attempts have been made, until today, to broaden the scope of research from one to many BMs within firm boundaries. To close this gap, we review systematically the emerging liter...

Burning mouth syndrome is characterized by both positive (burning pain, dysgeusia and dysesthesia) and negative (loss of taste and paraesthesia) sensory symptoms involving the lips and tongue, mainly the tip and anterior two-thirds. BMS patients report a persistently altered (metallic) taste or diminished taste sensations. Acidic foods such as tomatoes and orange juice cause considerable distre...

high speed trains are an indispensable part of rapid transportation systems in many countries. as the fastest means of transport on the ground, these trains are extremely sensitive to the terrain and track conditions. geometrical irregularities and mechanical characteristics of the track, together with inconsistencies in the lane (including bridges that support the track) are considered importa...

The basement membranes (BMs) of the nervous system include (a) the pial BM that surrounds the entire CNS, (b) the BMs that outline the vascular system of the CNS and PNS and (c) the BMs that are associated with Schwann cells. We previously found that isolated BMs are bi-functionally organized, whereby the two surfaces have different compositional, biomechanical and cell adhesion properties. To ...