Introduction: The term glaucoma refers to a group of diseases that have a characteristic optic neuropathy with associated visual field loss in common. Intraocular pressure has been considered to be the only causal factor for glaucoma and the only factor that can be manipulated to alter the course of the disease. But considering high intraocular pressure as the only factor responsible for glauco...

Cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) from cows were matured under normal (38.5°C) and elevated temperatures (41°C) simulating heat stress and their maturation was assessed based on measurement of cumulus expansion in both groups. There was a significant reduction (P

Stress can influence health throughout the lifespan, yet there is little agreement about what types and aspects of stress matter most for human health and disease. This is in part because "stress" is not a monolithic concept but rather, an emergent process that involves interactions between individual and environmental factors, historical and current events, allostatic states, and psychological...

Background Stress myocardial perfusion MRI allows for accurate detection of flow-limiting stenosis in the coronary artery. However, reduced diagnostic accuracy of stress myocardial perfusion MRI was reported in patients with coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG). Flow measurement in CABG is another MR approach that permits functional assessment of graft stenosis. The purpose of this study was to...

in this paper a new method for nondestructive testing or nondestructive evaluation is proposed for glass-epoxy composite. for this purpose, impact-echo is used to evaluate the properties of composite materials, detecting internal defects and thickness measurement. in the impact-echo method a steel ball impacts on a composite plate and generates stress waves or p-waves which will be transferred ...

In this paper, we investigate a relatively new method for determining three-dimensional sub-surface residual stress (Ueda, 1975). This hybrid experimental/analytical method determines the source of residual stress by sectioning and strain measurement, and then uses it to deduce residual stress in the original body. When certain assumptions about the spatial distribution of the source of residua...

A dual-axis ESPI hole-drilling residual stress measurement method is described. It has the advantage of evaluating all the in-plane normal stress components with similar response to measurement errors, significantly lower than with single-axis measurements. Experimental tests were done on a stressed specimen, and the results supported theoretical expectations.

We study a quasi-2D granular gas that is vertically vibrated. Precise particle tracking from a Phantom V7.2 camera which captures images at 63492 frames per second allows accurate measurement of the momentum transfer from individual collisions as well as from particle motion. With this, we are able to obtain the experimental measurement of the stress tensor. The time-averaged total stress measu...