In order to transform conventional buses into electric ones, exact knowledge of the energy consumption vehicles is essential. Furthermore, for a proper design transition and avoid inefficiencies excessive costs, this information must be adjusted real operating scenarios. However, recurring problem in context lack data address all these issues. Previous studies have focused on use standard drivi...

PURPOSE Dental hygienists report a lack of confidence in initiating Tobacco Dependence Counseling (TDC) with their patients who smoke. The purpose of this study was to determine if the confidence of dental hygiene students in providing TDC can be increased by Standardized Patient (SP) training, and if that confidence can be sustained over time. METHODS This 2-parallel group randomized design...

Quantitative measurements to detect lymphedema early in persons at-risk for breast cancer (BC) treatment-related lymphedema (BCRL) can aid clinical evaluations. Since BCRL may be initially manifest in skin and subcutis, the earliest changes might best be detected via local tissue water (LTW) measurements that are specifically sensitive to such changes. Tissue dielectric constant (TDC) measureme...

INTRODUCTION Tendon tissue engineering (TTE) tries to produce tendinous tissue of high quality to replace dysfunctional tissue. One possible application of TTE might be the replacement of ruptured tissue of the rotator cuff. Autologous tenocytes seem to be most suitable as no differentiation in vitro is necessary. Today it is still uncertain if there is a difference between tendon-derived cells...

We propose using multi-scale image textures to investigate links between neuroanatomical regions and clinical variables in MRI. Texture features are derived at multiple scales of resolution based on the Laplacian-of-Gaussian (LoG) filter. Three quantifier functions (Average, Standard Deviation and Entropy) are used to summarize texture statistics within standard, automatically segmented neuroan...

A reaction model was developed for the pyrolysis of binary mixtures of compounds whose reactions can be apportioned into three or fewer parallel chains coupled by chain transfer. A representative application of this model to the pyrolysis of mixtures of the asphaltene model compounds n-pentadecylbenzene (PDB) and n-tridecylcyclohexane (TDC) illustrates its utility. The model, along with its ass...

A novel multi-stage noise-shaping (MASH) delta-sigma (∆Σ) Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) structure is proposed for applications in continuous-time pulsed time-offlight (TOF) rangefinders for nuclear reactor remote sensing, which requires both high resolution and multi MGy gamma-dose radiation tolerance. The converter, implemented in 0.13 μm CMOS, achieves a time resolution of 5.6 ps and an ENO...