• The diagnosis of kidney disease should be based on a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) < 60 mL/min/1.73 m 2 and/or the presence of kidney damage (manifested by persistent microalbuminuria, persistent proteinuria, persistent haematuria after exclusion of urological causes, or structural abnormalities on kidney imaging tests), irrespective of the underlying diagnosis. (Opinion) • A diagnosis of ...

Subfailure damage in ligaments was evaluated macroscopically from a structural perspective (referring to the entire ligament as a structure) and microscopically from a cellular perspective. Freshly harvested rat medial collateral ligaments (MCLs) were used as a model in ex vivo experiments. Ligaments were preloaded with 0.1 N to establish a consistent point of reference for length (and strain) ...

Past earthquakes have demonstrated that old RC bridges may be seismically vulnerable. Bridge responses during the last decades illustrated the necessity of the seismic assessment of bridges especially those which were designed with old codes. In this research an existing concrete bridge representative of the most common bridges in the highway system in Iran are studied. Push over and nonlinear ...

In the field of structural health monitoring, researchers focus on the design of systems and techniques capable of detecting damage in structures. However, it is difficult to develop robust detection schemes that are invariant to environmental and operational conditions. In this report, we investigate several signal processing and machine learning techniques for developing such robust systems. ...

Accurately identifying damage is difficult after an extreme event since damage often cannot be directly measured. Sensors, however, can collect data that reflects damage by measuring changes in structural response. Therefore, damage identification becomes an inverse problem in which the goal is to find system properties using limited response information. The inverse problem is formulated as an...

BACKGROUND In school-aged children with cystic fibrosis (CF) structural lung damage assessed using chest CT is associated with abnormal ventilation distribution. The primary objective of this analysis was to determine the relationships between ventilation distribution outcomes and the presence and extent of structural damage as assessed by chest CT in infants and young children with CF. METHO...

Early damage detection is very important for in-time repair and retrofit of civil structures. The past years have seen a growing interest in automatic/programmable damage detection techniques using measurements from structural monitoring because of its potential economic benefit for maintenance practices. Recently, statistical pattern recognition (SPC) has been brought forward as a promising wa...

Wireless structural health monitoring research has drawn great attention in recent years from various research groups. While sensor network approach is a feasible solution for structural health monitoring, the design of wireless sensor networks presents a number of challenges, such as adaptability and the limited communication bandwidth. To address these challenges, we explore the mobile agent ...

Cavitation is an essential factor in the deterioration of hydraulic performance centrifugal pumps. The study cavitation fault diagnosis can help avoid or reduce damage it causes. vibration and noise analysis method predict incipient more accurately. In order to improve accuracy diagnosis, this paper studies distribution measuring points for pump diagnosis. research object a with inducer splitte...

A wavelet-based approach is proposed for structural damage detection and health monitoring. Characteristics of representative vibration signals under the wavelet transformation are examined. The method­ ology is then applied to simulation data generated from a simple structural model subjected to a harmonic excitation. The model consists of multiple breakable springs, some of which may suffer i...