acute  pancreatitis (ap) is a common clinical  disease  caused mainly by gallstone impacting  the distal common bile-pancreatic duct and alcohol abuse, but other potential causes as  endoscopic  retrograde cholangiopancreatography  (ercp),  intra duct papillary mucinous tumor and hypercalcemia are claimed .  the incidence of ap has been increasing in recent years . accordingly, ap is a multifac...

We study experimentally the impact of liquid drops against thin plates pierced with small holes. When the drop is larger than the hole, different situations can occur: (i) at a small velocity, the drop is entirely captured by the plate; (ii) above a threshold speed, some liquid is ejected below the surface. We characterize this critical speed and these two different situations, focusing on the ...

Foreign object damage (FOD) occurs when hard, millimeter-sized objects such as gravel or sand and even the pieces of the engine components are ingested into aircraft jet engines. Particles impacting blades produce small indentation craters which can become sites for fatigue crack initiation, severely limiting the lifetime of the blade. In this study, the impact on the edge of a thin plate is in...

The availability of technology has seen the development of online asynchronous discussion boards for use in teaching and learning. This paper explores the use of this medium within a second year undergraduate business course at the University of South Australia to supplement traditional delivery methods as well as showing how this medium can be used to enhance the development of communication, ...

M uch has been written about impact factors, how they are calculated, and what they do and do not measure. Briefly, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) impact factor is calculated for each journal as the number of citations per paper published in that journal in the prior 2 years. When the 2-year impact factor was designed, it was intended to be an aid to librarians making decisions ...

garmeh village (located in khour and biabanak county in isfahan province) is a desert village and given the deprived condition of this area and difficulty of finding a job in this village, it is necessary to take required steps for elimination of deprivation, improvement of employment and income and enhancement of its infrastructures using all available opportunities, capabilities and capacitie...