This paper investigates the feasibility of site characterization via spectral analysis of horizontally-polarized shear (SH) waves as a means to lter the eeects of pore water for saturated soil conditions. Using a multi-layered wave propagation model to simulate the proposed testing connguration revolving around a torsionally vibrating loading plate, it is shown that the use of generalized Love ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate and compare the effects on pain of intraurethral 2% lidocaine gel and plain lubricating gel in male patients underwent flexible cystoscopy. MATERIAL AND METHODS The data of 220 male patients who underwent flexible cystoscopy between March 2012 and August 2014 were retrospectively analized. The patients were divided into 2 groups according to using intraurethral gel ty...

A Uniform Lying Helix (ULH) liquid crystal device (LCD) fabricated by utilizing the characteristics of shear flow alignment as well as dielectric anisotropy was demonstrated. Cholesteric liquid crystals with a short helical pitch can exhibit an electric field-induced tilt. These experimental results indicate that it is possible to realize a high-speed response flexible LCD using plastic substra...

F1F0 ATP synthase (ATPase) either facilitates the synthesis of ATP in a process driven by the proton moving force (pmf), or uses the energy from ATP hydrolysis to pump protons against the concentration gradient across the membrane. ATPase is composed of two rotary motors, F0 and F1, which compete for control of their shared γ -shaft. We present a self-consistent physical model of F1 motor as a ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of isolated alterations in mineral content on mouse bone torsional properties. The femora and tibiae from 25 eight-week-old male A/J strain mice were divided into five groups and selectively decalcified from 5% to 20%. The right femora were then tested to failure in torsion while the tibiae were ashed to determine final mineral content of th...

Vehicular fuel composition and atmospheric emissions in South China: Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, and Zhuhai W. Y. Tsai, L. Y. Chan, D. R. Blake, and K. W. Chu Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Received: 7 February 2006 – Accepted: 9 March 2006 – Publi...

The veri cation of timed systems is extremely important but also extremely di cult Several methods have been proposed to assist in this task including extensions to symbolic model checking One possible use of model checking to analyze timed systems is by modeling passage of time as the number of taken transitions and ap plying quantitative algorithms to determine the timing parameters of the sy...

This paper presents an overview of the economics literature on the effect of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards on the new vehicle market. Since 1978, CAFE has imposed fuel economy standards for cars and light trucks sold in the U.S. market. This paper reviews the history of the standards, followed by a discussion of the major upcoming changes in implementation and stringency. It d...

BACKGROUND Although colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in women, little is known about predictors of adherence to screening. METHODS A randomly selected sample of 202 predominantly low-income and African-American women were interviewed. Knowledge of, attitudes and beliefs about, and practices related to flexible sigmoidoscopy (FS) screening were assessed. RESULTS The majority...

This article calls for engaging the public and private sectors of developing and industrialized countries in a global clean cooking fuel initiative (GCCFI) to bring about a worldwide shift to clean fluid fuels for cooking and heating in 10-15 years’ time -with an emphasis on providing clean fuel to the poorest households. This initiative is crucial to implementation of the Millennium Developmen...