Biomonitoring programs are often required to assess streams for which assessment tools have not been developed. For example, low-gradient streams (slope<or=1%) comprise 20-30% of stream miles in California and are of particular interest to watershed managers, yet most sampling methods and bioassessment indices in the state were developed in high-gradient systems. This study evaluated the perfor...

This paper describes a simple to use, yet accurate way to obtain the Tone Reproduction Curve (TRC) of display devices without the use of a measurement device. Human vision is used to compare a series of dithered color patches against interactively changeable homogeneously colored display areas. Results comparing this method with spectrophotometer measurements are given for three monitors.

Nowadays, concrete is mostly prestressed with steel. But the application of prestressing steel restricted in a highly corrosive environment area due to corrosion steel, leading reduction strength and may cause sudden failure. Carbon textile considered an alternate material its resistance property, high tensile strength, perfectly elastic. Prestressing also only realistic way utilize fully ultra...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to review pelvic fractures and concomitant orthopaedic injuries in children who have a patent triradiate cartilage (TRO) compared with children whose triradiate cartilage has closed (TRC). We hypothesise that these injuries will differ, leading to correlated alterations in management. PATIENTS AND METHODS Using a database, we retrospectively reviewed pati...

O presente artigo teve como objetivo realizar uma revisão narrativa de literatura forma a esclarecer o prognóstico da Terapia Ressincronização Cardíaca (TRC) em pacientes com Insuficiência (IC). A IC consiste síndrome clínica que coração não consegue suprir as demandas metabólicas do organismo ou quando essa demanda é suprida mediante grandes pressões, seja por déficit contração relaxamento mio...

Multivariate outlier detection based on the Mahalanobis distance with the BACON-EEM algorithm, the TRC algorithm and the ER algorithm is presented and imputation of outliers and further missing values is discussed. The methods are illustrated with a data set on Swedish municipalities. The relation between outliers, influential observations and selective editing is explored. Finally robust multi...