This work uses 194 outdoor particle size distributions (PSDs) from the literature to estimate single-pass heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning (HVAC) filter removal efficiencies for PM2.5 and ultrafine particles (UFPs: <100 nm) of outdoor origin. The PSDs were first fitted to tri-modal lognormal distributions and then mapped to size-resolved particle removal efficiency of a wide range of ...

This paper examines the distribution of areas burned in forest fires. Empirical size distributions, derived from extensive fire records, for six regions in North America are presented. While they show some commonalities, it appears that a simple power-law distribution of sizes, as has been suggested by some authors, is too simple to describe the distributions over their full range. A stochastic...

A fiber detector concept has been realized allowing to registrate particles within less than 100 nsec with a space point precision of about 100 μm at low occupancy. Three full size prototypes have been build by different producers and tested at a 3 GeV electron beam at DESY. After 3 m of light guides 8 10 photoelectrons were registrated by multichannel photomultipliers providing an efficiency o...

Objective: To determine the distribution of different skeletal pattern in orthodontic patients visiting a tertiary center in midwestern Nepal. Materials & Method: A sample of 200 lateral cephalograms of Nepali patients visiting UCMS-College of Dental Surgery, Bhairahawa was obtained. The jaw base relationship was assessed from lateral cephalograms using angular measurement (ANB angle). Among th...

This paper presents a method to recognize polygonal-shaped particles (i.e. rectangles, regular/irregular prisms) among agglomerated crystals from in-situ images during a crystallization process. The aim is to measure the particle size distributions (PSD); a key measurement needed for monitoring and controlling industrial crystallization operations . The method is first based on detecting the ge...

bubble size distributions, fractals, nucleation, volcanism Both power law and exponential vesicle size distributions (VSDs) have been observed in many different types of volcanic rocks. We present results of computer simulations and laboratory analogue experiments which reproduce these findings and show that the distributions can be interpreted as the product of continuous bubble nucleation res...

A prerequisite for achieving brain-like intelligence is the ability to rapidly learn new behaviors and actions. A fundamental mechanism for rapid learning in humans is imitation: children routinely learn new skills (e.g., opening a door or tying a shoe lace) by imitating their parents; adults continue to learn by imitating skilled instructors (e.g., in tennis). In this chapter, we propose a pro...

Hallux valgus occurs almost exclusively in shoe – wearing societies. Coughlin and Thompson (2) noting the extremely high prevalence of bunions in American women in the fourth, fifth or sixth decade of life, implicated constricting footwear as a cause of hallux valgus. Likewise, in Japan, Kato and Watanabe (3) noted that the prevalence of hallux valgus in women increased dramatically following t...

Introduction Shoes designed for specific foot types are speculated to decrease running injuries by encouraging different foot kinematics. One method to test this hypothesis is to track reflective markers affixed to the foot via windows cut in the shoe. The window size should be small enough to maintain the shoe's structural integrity. Only one study had a detailed description of the method used...