The assessment of beneficial effects of weld geometry modification methods is considered in this paper. Since all these methods significantly increaese weld toe radius, its influence on stress concentration factors is analised. The dependance of theoretical stress concentration factors vs. weld toe radius was determined by using both finite element analisys and photoelasicity method for various...

The genetic form of muscular dystrophy in the chicken is by now a well recognized entity (1, 2), and is a condition of some importance, since in many features it approximates the corresponding disease in the human. We have elsewhere reported our preliminary findings with lactic dehydrogenases in dystrophic chickens (3). Further investigations have centered on analysis of the content of the lact...

Glucose is the most commonly ordered test in a clinical chemistry laboratory accounting for about 30-40% of the total laboratory workload . Measurement of glucose concentration is done in all types of samples: capillary and venous whole blood and plasma, serum, pleural fluid, ascites, cerebrovascular fluid and urine . Most of these measurements are included into healthcare of patients with diab...

Recent studies suggest that serum homocysteine (HCY) level is correlated to inflammatory/immune factors that influence the development and progression of many diseases, such as cardiovascular disease. However, the association between serum HCY level and inflammatory/immune factors in healthy populations has not been systematically investigated. This study was conducted based on the Fangchenggan...

and Implications Ruminal hydrogen sulfide concentrations may be a useful tool to determine risk of cattle developing sulfurinduced polioencephalomalacia. In this study, steers were fed a low sulfur (0.2% S) or a high sulfur diet (0.7% S) and ruminal hydrogen sulfide concentrations were measured. Although differences in ruminal hydrogen sulfide due to sulfur intake were maintained throughout the...

We discuss determination of jumps for functions with generalized bounded variation. The questions are motivated by A. Gelb and E. Tadmor [1], F. Móricz [5] and [6] and Q. L. Shi and X. L. Shi [7]. Corollary 1 improves the results proved in B. I. Golubov [2] and G. Kvernadze [3]. Ÿ