In this work, conventional (non-coherent), coherent-jet, and high pressure coolant delivery systems are compared for profile creep-feed grinding, under non-continuous dressing conditions. To facilitate this comparison, an analytical method of determining the available flow (coolant that hits the wheel or workpiece) was presented. The coolant delivery systems were compared for five different fee...

Social order in distributed descentralised systems is claimed to be obtained by using social norms and social control. This paper presents a normative P2P architecture to obtain social order in multiagent systems. We propose the use of two types of norms that coexist: rules and conventions. Rules describe the global normative constraints on autonomous agents, whilst conventions are local norms....

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a common and serious complication in patients receiving chronic hemodialysis (HD). This study sought to investigate whether there are significant differences complications, cardiac surgery, relapses, mortality between IE cases HD non-HD patients. Prospective cohort (International Collaboration on Endocarditis databases, encompassing 7,715 episodes from 2000 2006 2...

Composition conventions are guidelines used by human composers in composing chess problems. They are particularly significant in composition tournaments. Examples include, not having any ‘check’ in the first move of the solution and not ‘dressing up’ the board with unnecessary pieces. Conventions are often associated or even directly conflated with the overall aesthetics or beauty of a composit...

Recent work in personal identity has emphasized the importance of various conventions, or ‘person directed practices’ in the determination of personal identity. An interesting question arises as to whether we should think that there are any entities that have, in some interesting sense, conventional identity conditions. We think that the best way to understand such work about practices and conv...

Background:   Primary bone lymphoma or non-Hodgkin lymphoma of bone is a rare disease. There are only a few case series of stage IE of this condition in medical literature. The aim of this study is to determine the rate of survival   for stage IE after combined modality treatment, the rate of local recurrence, and the results of limb salvage in cases   of local recurrence.     Methods:   We col...