OBJECTIVE To estimate the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of persons with spinal cord lesion. DESIGN The study design was cross-sectional. SUBJECTS All adult citizens in Helsinki with traumatic spinal cord lesion were identified. The final study group comprised 117 subjects, corresponding to a participation rate of 77%. METHODS HRQoL was assessed by a generic 15-dimensional self-ad...

abstract   squamous cell carcinoma (scc) is the most common malignant tumors of oral cavity. the ratio of men to women is about 2: 1. generally, it   is admitted that 60% of carcinoma of the mandibular gingival are located in the posterior of premolars. gingiva is one of the less common sites of oral squamous cell carcinoma (oscc). due to the variable clinical and behavioral presentations, it c...

As part of sustainable architecture principles and practices, designers need to define building's architectural requirements based on climatic conditions, environmental preservation and reduction in energy consumption. The natural energy sources such as solar radiation affect thermal and lighting performances of buildings depending on its facade characteristics. Traditionally, buildings thermal...

background: the optimal strategy in percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) for coronary artery bifurcation lesions has yet to be agreed upon. we compared a strategy for stenting the main vessel to provide a complete perfusion flow in the side branch, namely thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (timi) - iii, with a strategy for intervention in both the main vessel and the side branch (mv + sb...

This paper presents an approach of compact thermal modeling — HotSpot, which is parameterized according to design geometrical dimensions and material physical properties. While most existing compact thermal modeling methods facilitate thermal analysis of existing package designs, the HotSpot modeling method is more suitable for the exploration of new designs at both the die level and the packag...

The spectral resolution of a MEMS-based IR microspectrometer critically depends on the thermal cross-talk between adjacent TE elements in the detector array. Thermal isolation between elements is realized by using bulk micromachining directly following CMOS processing. This paper reports on the characterization results of bridge-shaped TE detector elements that are cut out of a membrane. Elemen...

This work analyses the performance of MOSFETs as a temperature sensor for the measurement of AC on-chip thermal signals caused by a power-dissipating circuit under test (CUT). First, we characterize how the CUT-sensor thermal coupling depends on the frequency of the AC thermal signal and the CUT-sensor distance. Second, we characterize how the thermal sensitivity of the sensor depends on the bi...

Detection of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources remains one of the most challenging problems faced by experimental physicists. A significant limit to the sensitivity of future long-baseline interferometric gravitational wave detectors is thermal displacement noise of the test mass mirrors and their suspensions. Suspension thermal noise results from mechanical dissipation in the fuse...

Heat flow in nanomaterials is an important area of study, with both fundamental and technological implications. However, little is known about heat flow in two-dimensional devices or interconnects with dimensions comparable to the phonon mean free path. Here we find that short, quarter-micron graphene samples reach ~35% of the ballistic thermal conductance limit up to room temperature, enabled ...