Few biomechanical engineers have had the opportunity to study post-mortem human subjects or anthropomorphic test dummies in an instrumented, controlled rollover test environment. It is no surprise that there is a lack of consensus with respect to human cervical spine injury mechanisms in rollovers and head-neck alignment with respect to the roof intrusion vector. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, this ...

In this paper, we propose the use of blanket fractal dimension (BFD) to estimate the tidal volume from smartphone-acquired tracheal sounds. We collected tracheal sounds with a Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone, from five (N = 5) healthy volunteers. Each volunteer performed the experiment six times; first to obtain linear and exponential fitting models, and then to fit new data onto the existing mode...

Bonai Forest Division (BFD) is enjoying the tropical moist deciduous, dry and semi-evergreen forest. Among biotic abiotic factors, faunal species that are found on forest floor very important. They important members of food chain, feed upon dead decaying matter, after death, add organic matter to soil as a source nutrients for floral communities but there lack in documentation. For better under...

BACKGROUND The benzoylformate decarboxylase (BFD) from Pseudomonas putida is a biotechnologically interesting biocatalyst. It catalyses the formation of chiral 2-hydroxy ketones, which are important building blocks for stereoselective syntheses. To optimise the enzyme function often the amino acid composition is modified to improve the performance of the enzyme. So far it was assumed that a rel...

This study examined the effect of konjac glucomannan (KGM) supplementation in diets with different lipid levels on growth, antioxidant capacity, hepatic metabolism and inflammatory response juvenile pompano ( Trachinotus ovatus ). Triplicate groups fish (12.07 ± 0.21 g) were fed eight experimental containing two 9% (basal-fat diet, BFD) 18% (high-fat HFD), four KGM (0, 0.5, 1 2%) for 60 days. P...

This study aimed at comparing various advanced oxidation processes (H2O2, UV, UV/H2O2, Fe /H2O2, UV/Fe /H2O2) for textile dye Reactive Red 195 decolorization. The use of blast furnace dust (BFD) was also investigated as an alternative source of iron in catalytic peroxidation with and without UV radiation. The effects of H2O2 and dye concentrations in kinetics of decolorization were studied. Dec...

This document describes Connectivity Verification (CV) Types using Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) with Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification (VCCV). VCCV provides a control channel that is associated with a pseudowire (PW), as well as the corresponding operations and management functions such as connectivity verification to be used over that control channel. Information about the ...

While methods for genetic species delimitation have noticeably improved in the last decade, this remains a work in progress. Ideally, model based approaches should be applied and considered jointly with other lines of evidence, primarily morphology and geography, in an integrative taxonomy framework. Deep phylogeographic divergences have been reported for several species of Carlia skinks, but o...

The process of sending a message from one node of a communication network to all other nodes is called broadcasting when the message is the same for all nodes and scattering when each of the nodes receives a different message. In this thesis we prove several upper bounds on the time to broadcast and scatter in the Cube-Connected Cycles (CCCd) and Butterfly (BFd) interconnection networks. We use...

This paper presents a toxicokinetic/toxicodynamic analysis to appraise arsenic (As) bioaccumulation in farmed juvenile milkfish Chanos chanos at blackfoot disease (BFD)-endemic area in Taiwan, whereas probabilistic incremental lifetime cancer risk (ILCR) and hazard quotient (HQ) models are also employed to assess the range of exposures for the fishers and non-fishers who eat the contaminated fi...