A randomized study was done to compare non pharmacological methods to reduce the pain of heel pricks in 104 stable term neonates. Non-nutritive sucking (NNS), rocking, massage, sucrose (20 percent), distilled water (DW) and expressed breast milk (EBM) were used as pain reducing agents. Duration of cry and Douleur Aiguë du Nouveau né (DAN) score were used to assess pain. Physiological parameters...

The mechanism of earthquake energy input to building structures is clarified by considering the surface ground amplification and soil-structure interaction. The earthquake input energies to superstructures, soil-foundation systems and total swaying-rocking system are obtained by taking the corresponding appropriate free bodies into account and defining the energy transfer functions. It has been...

In the design of a signal processing network, control system, or other analog system, it is usually necessary to work with frequency-dependent transfer functions and impedances, and to construct Bode diagrams. The Bode diagram is a log-log plot of the magnitude and phase of an impedance, transfer function, or other frequency-dependent complex-valued quantity, as a function of the frequency of a...

Results from outdoor acoustic measurements performed in a railway site near Reims in France in May 2010 are compared to those obtained from a finite-difference time-domain solver of the linearized Euler equations. During the experiments, the ground profile and the different ground surface impedances were determined. Meteorological measurements were also performed to deduce mean vertical profile...

We have performed a comparison of magnetoresistance and structure of epitaxial and textured Fe/Cr superlattices grown by molecular-beam epitaxy ~MBE! and magnetron sputtering with either ~110! and ~100! orientations on a variety of substrates. MBE samples grown along the ~100! orientation, exhibit narrower rocking curves ~mosaic spread! and lower saturation resistivities than sputtered samples....

The effects of linear vestibular stimulation on body-rocking behaviors in adults with profound mental retardation were studied. A single-system multiple base-line design across 3 subjects was used. The design included three phases spread over a period of 9 weeks. An interval time sampling procedure was used to collect data. Data from the 3 subjects were graphed and interpreted through visual in...

The large majority of three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules have been determined by X-ray diffraction of crystalline samples. High-resolution structure determination crucially depends on the homogeneity of the protein crystal. Overall 'rocking' motion of molecules in the crystal is expected to influence diffraction quality, and such motion may therefore affect the process of...

in the present paper, an analysis was carried out to investigate effects of radiation on a free convection flow bounded by a vertical surface embedded in a porous medium with constant suction velocity. it was under the influence of uniform magnetic field in the presence of a homogenous chemical reaction and viscous dissipation with constant heat and mass flux. the non-dimensional governing equa...

B. Doliwa, H. De Gersem, T. Weiland, U.Blell, and O. Boine-Frankenheim Technische Universität Darmstadt, Institut für Theorie Elektromagnetischer Felder, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt The SIS-18 upgrade is an important step towards the realization of the FAIR project. Besides the resistive beampipe walls, the nine kicker modules mounted in the SIS-18 may have a parasitic infl...

In this study, three samples of GaN/AlInN/AlN/Al2O3 high electron mobility (HEMT) structures are investigated with resolution X-ray diffraction (HR-XRD) technique. Peak positions and peak broadenings used in calculations, gained from rocking curves. Structural quality is determined symmetric asymmetric planes. Mosaic defects such as treadening dilocations (TDs), tilt twist angles, lateral verti...