The present work aims at building an explicit solution with respect to Functionally Graded Material (FGM) parameter for plate structures. For that, the displacement field is written under a separated variables form: in-plane coordinates x,y, transverse coordinate z and material chosen beforehand. This choice yields non-linear problem that can be solved by iterative process based on classical fi...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 100-140 million girls and women have undergone female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C). FGM/C is an ancient cultural practice prevalent in 26 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. With increased immigration, health professionals in high income countries including UK, Europe, North America and Australia care for women an...

ObjectivesOpen reduction and internal fixation of both columns is considered the treatment choice for displaced anterior column with posterior hemitransverse (ACPHT) fractures in non-geriatric patients. Plate one combined lag screw other allows to decrease operative time approach-related morbidity compared conventional plating. The aim this biomechanical study was evaluate whether single plate ...

Rosemary Kinuthia The Association between Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and the Risk of HIV/AIDS in Kenyan Girls and Women (15-49 Years) (Under the direction of Dr. Ike S. Okosun, MS, MPH, PhD, FRSPH and Dr. Richard Rothenberg, MD, MPH, FACP). INTRODUCTION: Kenya like the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be plagued with high rates of AIDS/HIV. Research has shown that cultural practices...

Faecal glucocorticoid metabolite (FGM) concentrations are used increasingly as a non-invasive measure to index physiological stress experienced by diverse taxa. However, FGM may not be evenly distributed throughout a faecal mass or faecal pellet group. Moreover, within-sample variation in FGM measurements associated with different sampling and/or processing techniques is rarely reported despite...

BACKGROUND To investigate the association between type of episiotomy and obstetric outcomes among 6,187 women with type 3 Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of women presenting in labor to 28 obstetric centres in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan between November 2001 and March 2003. Data were analysed using cross tabulations and mu...

INTRODUCTION Female genital mutilation (FGM), the partial or total removal of the external genitalia for non-medical reasons, can affect female sexuality. However, only few studies are available, and these have significant methodologic limitations. AIM To understand the impact of FGM on the anatomy of the clitoris and bulbs using magnetic resonance imaging and on sexuality using psychometric ...

This paper investigates symmetrical buckling of orthotropic circular and annular plates of continuous variable thickness. Uniform compression loading is applied at the plate outer boundary. Thickness varies linearly along radial direction. Inner edge is free, while outer edge has different boundary conditions: clamped, simply and elastically restraint against rotation. The optimized RayLeigh-Ri...

FGM components are generally constructed to sustain elevated temperatures and severe temperature gradients. Low thermal conductivity, low coefficient of thermal expansion and core ductility have enabled the FGM material to withstand higher temperature gradients for a given heat flux. Examples of structures undergo extremely high temperature gradients are plasma facing materials, propulsion syst...

Intelligent Foraging, Gathering and Matching (I-FGM) combines a unique multi-agent architecture with a novel partial processing paradigm to provide a solution for real-time information retrieval in large and dynamic databases. I-FGM provides a unified framework for combining the results from various heterogeneous databases and seeks to provide easily verifiable performance guarantees. In our pr...