This paper presents an overview of observed distresses on low slope roofing systems collected for the Building Envelope Life Cycle Asset Management (BELCAM) project. The data include over 14,000 visible distresses from 600 roofs from seven different climatic regions across Canada. The distresses encountered for built up roofs, modified bituminous roofs and a limited number of single-ply roofing...

Respiratory distress by laryngospasm as an isolated manifestation of epileptic seizure is rare phenomenon. We report on a 1-month-old infant with recurrent respiratory distresses by laryngospasm as an isolated manifestation of status epilepticus and resultant periarrests, while being monitored in our intensive care unit. This case of an atypical manifestation of status epilepticus highlights th...

this paper identifies eleven types of asphalt pavement distress types, commonly occuring in tehran metropolitan area. of these, five distresses namely: corrugation; utility cut depression ;pot holes; alligator cracking; and loss of bridge deck surfacing are rather common. however, others namely: shear failure; shrinkage cracks; lane joint cracks; bleeding; and shoulder distress are less prevail...

Traditionally, statistical techniques such as multivariate discriminant analysis and logistic regression analysis have been applied for predicting financial distresses by analyzing financial ratios. In addition to statistical methods, recent studies suggest that backpropagation neural networks (BPNs) and support vector machines (SVMs) can be alternative approaches for classification tasks. Henc...

Pavement distresses (damages) are important information for evaluating the road condition and conducting the necessary road maintenance activities. Conventional human visual pavement distress detection method is time consuming, very expensive, labour-intensive and dangerous due to exposure to traffic. Numbers of methods have been introduced for road damage detection in the context of fine struc...

Health care professionals assume that tube feeding is an unpleasant, distressing experience for patients, which is only partially substantiated by experience. Thirty patients were interviewed via a tube feeding and hospital experience checklist (a 47-item interview schedule). Common experiences were operationally defined as those felt by at least 50%; subjectively distressful experiences were t...

Pavement distresses (damages) are important information for evaluating the road condition and conducting the necessary road maintenance activities. Conventional human visual pavement distress detection method is time consuming, very expensive, labour-intensive and dangerous due to exposure to traffic. Numbers of methods have been introduced for road damage detection in the context of fine struc...