Flux cored arc welding (FCAW) is applied due to its remarkable results and advantages (high productivity, joint quality etc) in various fields (industrial construction, naval, chemistry, petrochemistry etc.). FCAW disadvantages, mainly the emission of pollutants, can be counteracted by their rigorous control and local forced ventilation in the production. Control measures that can be used for m...

Correspondence 4 . Villiot-Danger JC , Villiot-Danger E , Borel JC , Pépin JL , Wuyam B , Vergès JS . Respiratory muscle endurance training in obese patients . Int J Obes (Lond) . 2011 ; 35 ( 5 ): 692 699 . 5 . National Institutes of Health Clinical Center . Obese patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and exercise training (OBEX1). NCT01155271. ClinicalTrials.gov . Bethesda, MD:...

This paper aims to present fingerprint image enhancement by using directional circular raised cosine filters which are implemented using a radial component and an angular component. It has been compared with the common filters used for bandpass filtering, i.e. circular Gabor filters and Log-Gabor filters at the same bandwidth. The experimental results have found that the circular raised cosine ...

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Secretory IgA outputs in urine have been measured in 24 malnourished Gambian children who had been admitted to hospital with chronic diarrhoea and in 43 children from a rural Gambian village. Village children of poor nutritional state (less than or equal to 74% weight for age compared with the National Center for Health Statistics reference curve) had secretory IgA outputs that were only one th...

AIM To determine whether fetal and infant growth, as assessed by weight at birth and weight at 1 year, are related to intraocular pressure. METHODS 717 men and women born in Hertfordshire between 1920 and 1930, for whom records of birth weight and weight at 1 year were available, were examined. Visual fields were assessed using the Takagi central 25 degrees 75 point static threshold screening...

We investigated the angular resolution subserving the haptic perception of raised-line drawings by measuring how accurately observers could discriminate between two angle sizes under various conditions. We found that, for acute angles, discrimination performance is highly dependent on exploration strategy: mean thresholds of 2.9 degrees and 6.0 degrees were found for two different exploration s...

Serial electrocardiographic (E.C.G.) recordings were taken in seven patients suffering from intracranial conditions, for which their intracranial pressure was directly and continuously monitored with a Konigsberg extradural transducer. The E.C.G. changes observed in patients with raised intracranial pressure were prominent U waves, ST-T segment changes, notched T waves, and shortening and prolo...