Background. A panel of experts (the 2014 Panel) convened by the American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs developed an evidence-based clinical practice guideline (CPG) on the use of prophylactic antibiotics in patients with prosthetic joints who are undergoing dental procedures. This CPG is intended to clarify the “Prevention of Orthopaedic Implant Infection in Patients Undergoi...

Most search engines return a lot of unwanted information. A more thorough filtering process can be performed on this information to sort out the relevant documents. A new method called Frequency Domain Scoring (FDS), which is based on the Fourier Transform is proposed. FDS performs the filtering by examining the locality of the keywords throughout the documents. This is examined and compared to...

Two dimensional fluorescence difference spectroscopy (2D FDS) detects nanoparticle interactions following surface functionalization and biomolecule loading by generating a spectral signature of the fluorescent intensity per excitation and emission wavelengths. Comparing metal oxide nanoparticles revealed a unique spectral signature per material composition. 2D FDS showed to be sensitive to chan...

We calculate the ratio fBs/fBd by following the Oakes’ method which is based on chiral symmetry breaking, but we improve his calculation by performing the calculation of the factor < 0|b̄γ5s|Bs >/< 0|b̄γ5d|Bd > in the mock meson model. In this calculation we improved the mock meson model by using the value of the parameter β which is obtained by the variational method in the relativistic quark mo...

In this paper, the use of Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) and its evacuation module, Evac for modelling fire and people evacuation in a road tunnel is illustrated. For given fire scenario and traffic situation in the tunnel, behaviour of individual evacuees as well as groups of evacuees is analyzed in order to demonstrate the impact of fire on people evacuation. Some specific features of the use ...

In this paper, simulation of fire in a short 2-lane road tunnel and its evacuation are described. Two traffic situations in the tunnel and their impact on people evacuation in fire conditions are analyzed. For simulation of the tunnel fire, the FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) system, version 5.5.3 based on advanced CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) fire model is used. The evacuation of people in...

Flux diverters (FDs) are used in High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) transformers for AC loss reduction and flux optimization. In this paper, a 2D axial symmetric superconducting winding model is proposed two designs of applied to the windings. A homogenization approach analyze windings with large turn numbers. The key parameters including number, width, height spatial positions FDs adjusted...

From Jensen's two-level theory of mental abilities (Level I: rote learning and memory; Level II: complex cognitive processing) it was predicted that forward digit span (F1JS) should correlate less with IQ than backward digit span (BDS), and age and race should interact with FDS-BDS, with the FDS-BDS difference decreasing as a junction of age and a greater white-black difference in BDS than in F...

This paper further investigates the specification and calibration of FDs. The purpose is to provide a consistent, systematic, and adaptive way to obtain FDs from single-loop detector measurements. In particular, the piecewise linear form is adopted for the FD, because (a) more-complex forms of the FD can be approximated by a piecewise linear form with arbitrarily many pieces, and (b) empirical ...

The Fourier descriptors (FDs) is a classical but still popular method for contour matching. The key idea is to apply the Fourier transform to a periodic representation of the contour, which results in a shape descriptor in the frequency domain. Fourier descriptors are most commonly used to compare object silhouettes and object contours; we instead use this well established machinery to describe...