The present work focuses on a numerical investigation of nanofilms’ (water/copper and water/aluminium) evaporation inside heat exchanger by mixed convection flowing down one channel plate. was composed two parallel vertical plates. wetted plate heated while the other maintained isothermal dry. impact dispersion different types nanoparticles in liquid film their volume fraction mass exchange pro...

In this study we investigated the association between morphological asymmetry and patterns of cognitive ability in dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT). Digitized CT scans were used to estimate volumetric parameters of the brain. The volume of the cranium, brain parenchyma, the subarachnoid space, and lateral ventricles was computed. The volume of the subarachnoid space was used as an index of co...

OBJECTIVE Recent evidence suggests that the cerebellum may play a role in higher cognitive functions and, therefore, may play an important role in schizophrenia. METHOD The authors used magnetic resonance imaging to measure cerebellum and vermis volume in 15 patients with schizophrenia and 15 normal comparison subjects. RESULTS They found that 1) vermis volume was greater in patients with s...

The unusual behaviour of smectites, the ability to change volume when wetted (swelling) or dried (shrinking), make soil containing smectites very unstable and hazardous for the building industry due to foundation movement and poor slope stability. These macroscopic properties are dominated by the structural arrangement of its finest fraction. In this work we show utilisation of a new technique ...

Introduction: Blink reflex (BR) is a new electro diagnostic test mediated through a reflex arch with fifth cranial nerve in its afferent and seventh cranial nerve in its efferent side. BR responses are designed R1 , R2 and R2c responses. Anatomic locations of this reflex arch in central nervous system are still undefined and various results have been reported in different studies, for example...

We investigate in this paper the influence of wetting films on the adhesion forces between macroscopic solid surfaces connected by a liquid bridge. We show that the capillary forces are dependent on the interactions governing the wetting layers, and that those interactions may be determined from the measurement of the capillary force in the presence of a condensable vapor. We illustrate those r...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate hemispheric asymmetry of cerebral blood flow changes during various mental tests by applying transcranial Doppler sonography (TCD) to simultaneously monitor bilateral cerebral blood flow velocity changes. METHODS Twenty-one participants without cerebrovascular disease performed 3 left hemispheric tasks (reading, calculation, and color scalin...

In most fruit tree orchards under localised irrigation, only a fraction of the rhizosphere is wetted by irrigation. As this may reduce growth and production, such that there demand for information on optimum number location emitters. mature ‘Arbequina’ olive orchard with 1667 trees ha-1, we analysed impact applying same amount water one vs. two drip irrigation pipes (laterals) per row. We had f...

OBJECTIVES To assess quantitatively the cortical pattern profile of regional FDDNP binding to beta-amyloid and neurofibrillary tangles on MR derived cortical maps, FDDNP PET images were corrected for movement and partial volume (PV), and optimized for kernel size. METHODS FDDNP DVR PET images from 23 subjects (7 with Alzheimer's disease (AD), 6 with mild cognitive impairment and 10 controls) ...

infiltration in furrow irrigation is 2-d which depends on both time and surface characteristics at which infiltration occurs. however, in many furrow irrigation models, infiltration is determined as a function of infiltration time opportunity, assuming the variation of weted perimeter is low along furrow. in order to compare the proposed asumptions, two zero-inertia furrow irrigation models wer...