BACKGROUND Prevention of multi-morbidities following non-communicable diseases requires a systematic registration of adverse modifiable risk factors, including low physical fitness. The aim of the study was to establish criterion validity and reliability of a smartphone app (InterWalk) delivered fitness test in patients with type 2 diabetes. METHODS Patients with type 2 diabetes (N = 27, mean...

The thermal design of electrical machines has numerous influencing factors. This paper compares different cooling methods, their volume flow rates and other machine parameters with regard to the continuous power a PMSM. Understanding characteristics heat sinks depending on operating point is important for an expedient in order avoid derating due overtemperatures. As guideline, this contribution...

Fodor (1970) came up with the following puzzle: in a context where Adrian has decided what kind of jacket to buy but has no idea that the kind of jacket he wants is just like Malte’s jacket, there is a reading of Adrian wants to buy a jacket like Malte’s which neither the de re nor the de dicto reading render correctly. Based on a review of approaches to Fodor’s puzzle in the literature I argue...

A model-based optimization methodology was developed to systematically address all possible optimal start-up scenarios of a multistage combined cooling and antisolvent continuous MSMPR (mixed-suspension, mixed-product removal) crystallizer. The crystallization aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid, ASA) in ethanol (solvent) water (antisolvent) used as case study. steady state firstly conducted optimize...

Offshore structures such as jacket platforms have to inevitably be designed against  sever  environmental actions. In seismically active areas these structures also become susceptible to earthquake excitations. Strong ground motions recorded  in recent earthquakes, including the 1995 Kobe, Japan, 1999 Chi-chi, Taiwan and 1999 Kocaeli, Turkey earthquakes, revealed that the dynamic motions in nea...

The Sirri jacket offshore platform was designed and installed in Persian gulf of Iran in 1975 and has been in service since that time. The importance of offshore structure's stability and the failure of this kind of structure during an earthquake in different active zones revealed that earthquake loading has to be considered. In this paper, Magnetorheological (MR) fluid dampers have been propos...

Inflatable plstic splints have been in use for some time in the United States for the emergency splinting of fracures;t are also gaining popularity in casualty departmentsand clinics in the United Kingdom. Splints of this type cost essentially of a double-walled trAhsparent plastic jacket with a slide fastener and a screw valve in the outer _wa for tion (Pig,,1). The jacket is placed on the lim...

A new technique for the strengthening of existing R/C shear walls based on the application of very thin high performance jackets is presented in this paper. The strengthening jacket is made of high performance concrete and high strength steel mesh. The experimental study on a 1:3 scale R/C wall, proportioned to resist the vertical loads only, and reinforced by means of a 15 mm thick high perfor...

Hybrid excitation synchronous motor has the advantages of uniform and adjustable electromagnetic field, wide speed range high power density. It broad application prospects in new energy electric vehicles, wind generation other fields. This paper introduces basic structure hybrid with modular stator, analyzes operation principle motor. The cooling water-cooled plate is designed, effects thicknes...