BACKGROUND Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a monogenetic autosomal recessive multi-organ disease affecting approximately 50,000 patients worldwide. Overall median survival is continually increasing but pulmonary disease remains the most common cause of death. Guidelines have been published in relation to the outpatient maintenance of lung health for CF patients and treatment of acute lung exacerbations...

This research proposes a novel framework of final drive simultaneous failure diagnosis containing feature extraction, training paired diagnostic models, generating decision threshold, and recognizing simultaneous failure modes. In feature extraction module, adopt wavelet package transform and fuzzy entropy to reduce noise interference and extract representative features of failure mode. Use sin...

Tension tests of metal-plate connected (MPC) joints for Chinese larch (Larix gmelinii (Rupr.) Rupr.) were conducted in four orientations. Loaddeflection curves were obtained for each MPC jointed specimen. Ultimate tension load, translation stiffness, stiffness at large slip, and failure modes for each specimen were obtained. A Foschi 3-parameter model was found to fit the load-deflection curves...

This paper presents an analytical aggregation method for evaluating the throughput (or production rate) of tandem homogenous production lines. Unlike in existing aggregation methods, each machine can have more than one failure mode. The flow of processed parts is considered as a continuous flow of material. The aggregation algorithm consists in recurrent replacing of a dipole by a single machin...

Aim: To evaluate the effect of storage media and autoclaving on shear bond strength of composite to enamel. Materials and Methods: 100 human premolars were randomly divided into ten groups of ten as follows: C: freshly extracted teeth. A: Autoclaved freshly extracted teeth. CH-6: 6 month storage in 0.5 % chloramine T. CA-6: 6 month storage in 0.5 % chloramine T + autoclaving. T-6: 6 month stora...

Encyclopedia of Structural Health Monitoring. Edited by Christian Boller, Fu-Kuo Chang and Yozo Fujino  2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISBN: 978-0-470-05822-0. of possible failure modes, the effects of which on observable (sensor) data are often poorly defined. To compound this, examples of abnormal behavior in high-integrity systems are few and far between; usually, there are insufficient examp...