espanolEl envejecimiento de la poblacion exige atencion especifica en esta etapa del desarrollo. Este estudio tuvo como objetivo describir y comparar indicadores experiencias afectivas ancianos institucionalizados no institucionalizados, basados Test las Piramides Colores Pfister (TPC), relacion con los datos normativos disponibles para el grupo edad. Se evaluaron 50 (G1=25 institucionalizados;...

The Cone Penetration Test (CPT) is a common in-situ test which generally investigates a much greater volume of soil more quickly than possible from sampling and laboratory tests. Therefore, it has the potential to realize both cost savings and assessment of soil properties rapidly and continuously. The principle objective of this paper is to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of using a...

Background Echo and nuclear studies have shown that coronary flow changes with the cold pressor test (CPT). CPT has been used to measure coronary flow response because it provides an endothelium-dependent coronary vasodilation that is sensitive for detecting early changes in coronary endothelial function. There was also a study showed myocardial perfusion increases during CPT with first pass pe...

Cone penetration tests (CPTs) can quantitatively inform about the mechanical state of a sand. However, relating measured cone resistance values to sand requires complex back-analysis processes occurring in soil during test. This paper provides new evidence value added this area by modern large-deformation modelling based on material point method (MPM). It is shown that accurate simulation relat...

BACKGROUND Accurate diagnosis and staging of hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) is important in health surveillance of vibration-exposed workers and the substantial number of related medico-legal cases. The measurement of the rewarming rate of fingers after cold provocation to the hands (CPT) has been suggested as a useful test in diagnosing HAVS. AIM To investigate the diagnostic value of a ...

Several processes allow the improvement of soils such as vibrocompaction, stony columns, static horizontal compaction etc. These reduce risk liquefaction potential and making it possible to build on this type soil when space restriction require it. Stone columns are a recognized method improvement, which consists creating large diameter using special vibrators with granular filling materials in...

The Canterbury Earthquake Sequence produced a spatial pattern of liquefaction-induced surface ejecta at an open field along Palinurus Road in Christchurch, New Zealand, that would not be expected based on simplified liquefaction evaluation procedures. Half the site discharged sand boils and other half did not. Two-dimensional fully-coupled nonlinear dynamic analyses (NDAs) were performed to exa...

BACKGROUND The Continuous Performance Test-Identical Pairs version (CPT-IP) is a well-established measure of sustained attention, and its more challenging versions are particularly suited to detect subtle processing deficits in patients with schizophrenia. However, while there are few longitudinal samples for the CPT-IP, no study has addressed stability for more than two month in patients with ...

the prediction of liquefaction potential of soil due to an earthquake is an essential task in civil engineering. the decision tree is a tree structure consisting of internal and terminal nodes which process the data to ultimately yield a classification. c4.5 is a known algorithm widely used to design decision trees. in this algorithm, a pruning process is carried out to solve the problem of the...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between distal symmetric peripheral neuropathy and early stages of autonomic bladder dysfunction in type 2 diabetic women. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 137 diabetic women with minimal coexisting confounders of voiding dysfunction followed at a diabetes clinic were subject to the following evaluations: current perception threshold (CPT) tests on myel...