background: the study was conducted to estimate and compare the validity and performance of two screening methods for uri­nary schistosomiasis: the interview - reporting blood in urine- and detecting microhematuria by reagent strip. methods:  in year 2003, 515 schoolchildren from five schools in abyan and taiz governorates in yemen, were in-terviewed by healtworker for hematuria, and then urine...

Finite element analysis (FEA) and continuum mechanics techniques have been used to model the thermal residual stress distribution in bonded joints and assess the suitability of using two-dimensional (2D) analysis methods. The methods are first employed to investigate stresses in metal-epoxy bi-material strip samples. The change in curvature of two bi-material strip systems during heating and co...

The 3ω method is popular for thermal conductivity measurements. It consists of a strip heater above a substrate, and the results are usually based on approximate solutions of the heat conduction equation for simplified heating in which the heater is assumed to be a thin plate. Through numerical studies, it is found that a finite heater thickness has an effect on the value of the thermal conduct...

The results from ‘strip yield’ approach of the FASTRAN type models of plasticity induced crack closure effects of fatigue cracks subjected to variable amplitude loadings are presented. The strip yield results are compared with authors’ finite element (FE) and experimental results. It has been observed that the strip yield model is seen to be fundamentally limited by choice of α (constraint fact...

An analysis of plane wave scattering from a finite 1-D periodic penetrable screen is presented with the aim of demonstrating the effectiveness and the accuracy of high frequency asymptotic solutions when combined with approximate homogeneous transition boundary conditions. The results of the numerical investigation are relevant to the electromagnetic scattering from a large planar semi-transpar...

Abstract In the present paper, fundamental frequency optimization of symmetrically laminated composite plates is studied using the combination of Elitist-Genetic algorithm (E-GA) and finite strip method (FSM). The design variables are the number of layers, the fiber orientation angles, edge conditions and plate length/width ratios. The classical laminated plate theory is used to calculate the n...

We consider the six-vertex model with anti-periodic boundary conditions across a finite strip. The row-to-row transfer matrix is diagonalised by the ‘commuting transfer matrices’ method. From the exact solution we obtain an independent derivation of the interfacial tension of the six-vertex model in the anti-ferroelectric phase. The nature of the corresponding integrable boundary condition on t...