OBJECTIVE: To examine the loss of earning capacity and permanent impairment of a cohort of male patients who had experienced finger amputation due to occupational injury. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: University teaching hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS: Twenty-eight male patients aged 26 to 55 years who presented with work-related finger amputations in their dominant right hand from ...

in this study, wasinvestigated the effect of two thickening agents, carboxymethyl cellulose (cmc) and guar on the rheological properties of set fruit yogurt. viscoelastic modulus (g' , g'), apparent viscosity and complex viscosity increased and loss factor decreased by increasing carboxymethyl cellulose and guar content up to 0.2% and 0.06% respectively. however, in the concentrations...

background and aim: attention is an important cognitive process that is necessary for educational purposes. blind people are deprived from the most widely used human sense, the sense of vision. there are reports that blind individuals have a significantly better performance in attentional tasks, as compared with normal subjects. the purpose of this study was to evaluate sustained auditory atten...

Graphite/LFP commercial cells are stored under 3 different conditions of temperature (30°C, 45°C, and 60°C) and SOC (30, 65, and 100%) during up to 8 months. Several non-destructive electrochemical tests are performed at different storage times in order to understand calendar aging phenomena. After storage, all the cells except those stored at 30°C exhibited capacity fade. The extent of capacit...

In this paper, we study the role of capacity on the efficiency of a two-tier supply chain with two suppliers (leaders, first tier) and one retailer (follower, second tier). The suppliers compete via pricing (Bertrand competition) and, as one would expect in practice, are faced with production capacity. We consider a model with differentiated substitutable products where the suppliers are symmet...

Transformed codebooks are obtained by a transformation of a given codebook to best match the statistical environment at hand. The procedure, though suboptimal, has recently been suggested for feedback of channel state information (CSI) in multiple antenna systems with correlated channels because of their simplicity and effectiveness. In this paper, we first consider the general distortion analy...

In this work, the capacity and the interference statistics of the uplink of high-altitude platforms (HAPs) for asynchronous and synchronous WCDMA system assuming finite transmission power and imperfect power control are studied. Propagation loss used to calculate the received signal power is due to the distance, shadowing, and wall insertion loss. The uplink capacity for 3and 3.75-G services is...

the oil-paper insulation is a type of an inexpensive combination insulation system in oil-filled power transformers. in this study the dielectric and strength properties of canola oil and mineral oil impregnated hand-sheet papers were investigated. all hand sheets were made of unbleached bagasse soda pulp with two different freeness levels of 200 ± 25 ml, csf and 400± 25 ml,csf. after drying th...

abstract: edible coatings made from whey protein concentrate (wpc) and gellan gum (g) were investigated for their capacity to preserve the quality of malus domestica cv golab apples. wpc and gellan gum coatings at different concentrations plasticized with glycerol (gly) were tested. postharvest storage quality condition testes included weight loss, color and texture changes, titratable acidity ...

Utilization of fossil fuel for supplying of requires energy of desalination systems is common. On the other hand, solar energy is one of the high-grade energies in the world that can be found specifically in hot weather places. Therefore, utilization of solar energy for operation of desalination systems will reduce greenhouse gases and is a good alternative way. Common exergy analysis method (s...