When the depth of stressed soil is rather small, Plate Load Test (PLT) becomes most efficient test to estimate properties for design purposes. Among these properties, modulus subgrade reaction important one that usually employed in roads and concrete pavement design. Two methods are available perform PLT: static dynamic methods. Static PLT adopted due its simplicity time saving be performs comp...

Selective breeding for high voluntary wheel running in untrained mice has resulted in a 'mini muscle' (MM) phenotype, which has increased skeletal muscle capillarity compared with muscles from non-selected control lines. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) are essential mediators of skeletal muscle angiogenesis; thus, we hypothesized that untrained MM mice wit...

BACKGROUND A novel short-wave ultraviolet light (UVC) pathogen reduction technology (THERAFLEX UV-Platelets; MacoPharma, Mouvaux, France) without the need of any additional photoactive reagent has recently been evaluated for various bacteria and virus infectivity assays. The use of UVC alone has on the one hand been shown to reduce pathogens but may, on the other hand, have some impact on the p...

Currently, people at Lekke Village use electricity supplied by Micro hydro Power Plant. The plant of this turbine is located about 5-6 km from the village and operates only 10-12 hours per day, 06.00 PM in evening to AM morning. remote location micro decreases received voltage community. Besides, unstable condition installed resulted fluctuation output frequency voltage. At dry season, decremen...

In this study, the clinical transfusion effects of fresh and cryopreserved apheresis leukocyte-reduced Platelets (PLTs) were examined. In total, 102 patients admitted to our hospital between August 2012 and August 2013 were enrolled, including 50 non-hematonosis patients and 52 hematonosis patients. Among them, 45 received fresh apheresis PLTs and 57 received cryopreserved PLTs. Patient blood P...

The time required to initiate clinical trials, from declaration of the investigator's intent to opening of the study for participant accrual, is cited as often being so long that clinical research is seriously impeded. Efforts to improve operational efficiency of trial initiation are confounded by the work flow complexity and the variations encountered with different types of trials and institu...

We report a study on the fatigue behavior of Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)TiO3 (PZT) films deposited on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrates by a sol–gel method with singleand double-sided (Pb0.72La0.28)Ti0.93O3 (PLT) buffer layers, with an attempt to clarify the role of the top and bottom PLT buffer layers on the fatigue endurance (FE) of the PZT films. It is revealed that the existence of the PLT buffer layer and the...

This paper proposes a combination of simulated data adaptation and piecewise linear transformation (PLT) for robust continuous speech recognition. The original PLT selects an appropriate acoustic model using tree-structured HMMs and the acoustic model is adapted by the input speech in an unsupervised scheme. This adaptation can improve the acoustic model if the input speech is long enough and i...