Background: Growing evidence on the negative role of overweight and obesity health outcomes patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) exists. Objectives: The aim study is to evaluate association between Body Mass Index (BMI) categories sociodemographic, disease-characteristics patient-reported (PROs) in a large sample axSpA patients. Methods: Data from 2,846 unselected European Map Axial Sp...

the aim of this paper is to investigate the bazaars and shopping centers as public spaces. given theweakness of public places and consequently the weakness of social interactions, today’s societies are in dire need ofsocial spaces to increase social interactions. therefore, the review of these two as then and now’s urban spaces couldhelp solve some problems. bazaars are among the oldest iranian...

DEVELOPMENT OF LOWER EXTREMITY INJURY CRITERIA ANDBIOMECHANICAL SURROGATE TO EVALUATE MILITARY VEHICLE OCCUPANTINJURY DURING AN EXPLOSIVE BLAST EVENTbyBRIAN JOSEPH MCKAYDecember 2010Advisor: Dr. Cynthia BirMajor: Biomedical EngineeringDegree: Doctor of Philosophy Anti-vehicular (AV) landmines and improvised explosive devices (IED) haveaccounted for more than ...

The central recirculation zone (CRZ) in a swirl stabilized gas turbine combustor has a dominant effect on the fuel air mixing process and flame stability. Most of state of the art swirlers share one disadvantage; the fixed swirl number for the same swirler configuration. Thus, in a mathematical sense, Reynolds number becomes the sole parameter for controlling the flow characteristics inside the...

Current instrumentation in vitreous fluorophotometry allows the determination of a fluorescein concentration profile along the optical axis of the eye. Based on an assumption of a uniform blood-retinal barrier permeability, several methods have been used for the determination of the permeability from an axial scan. The assumption of a uniform permeability is not realistic and it has been unknow...

Nowadays, the stress analysis mostly aimed at general buried pipelines. And few of the gas pipelines in tunnel (especially under the seismic action) were analyzed. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze the stress distribution of gas pipeline under seismic action in tunnel. In this paper, CEASAR II software was used to establish the stress model of China-Myanmar XX tunnel pipeline under seismic ...

When a fluid enters a rotating circular pipe, an angular momentum or swirl boundary layer appears at the wall and interacts with the axial momentum boundary layer. In the centre of the pipe, the fluid is free of swirl and is accelerated due to boundary layer growth. Below a critical flow number, defined as the ratio of average axial velocity to circumferential velocity of the pipe, there is flo...

In this study we investigated the impact of accommodation on axial and oblique astigmatism along 12 meridians of the central 30° of visual field and explored the compensation of corneal first-surface astigmatism by the remainder of the eye's optical system. Our experimental evidence revealed no systematic effect of accommodation on either axial or oblique astigmatism for two adult populations (...

In a recent paper [arXiv:1109.2480] we have reported on a lattice QCD calculation of the heavyhadron axial couplings g1, g2, and g3. These quantities are low-energy constants of heavy-hadron chiral perturbation theory (HHχPT) and are related to the B∗B π, Σb Σb π, and Σ (∗) b Λb π couplings. In the following, we discuss important details of the calculation and give further results. To determine...