This research was performed to determine the efficiency effect of sedimentary environment of Kerman City area on soil structure bycomparing natural and reconstituted consolidation curves. In this regard, four different criteria such as sensitivity strength, stresssensitivity, Schmertman criteria and the result of the uniaxial compression test were used. The base of these criteria is to compare ...

This paper presents a novel method for predictive lossless image compression via evolving a set of switches, which can be implemented easily by intrinsic evolvable hardware mode. A set of compounded mutations for binary chromosome through combining the local asexually reproducing with multiple mean step size search was proposed, and a gradually approach method for evolving larger scale images w...

Over the decade, the world has completely depended upon digital images for communicating visual information. Many compression techniques have been used and compared to minimal the size of the image that has been transferred over the Internet. In this paper, we use the Fractal Image Compression which minimal the size of the image by using the property of self-similar or self-affine transformatio...

The aim of the study was to determine intrinsic mechanical properties of the complete growth plate and its reserve, proliferative and hypertrophic zones. Growth plate disk samples from newborn swine's ulnae were tested using stress relaxation tests under unconfined compression. The Transversely Isotropic Biphasic Model (TIBPE) derived by [Cohen, B., Lai, W. M., Mow, V. C., 1998. A transversely ...

New drug candidates increasingly tend to be poorly water soluble. One approach to increase their solubility is to convert the crystalline form of a drug into the amorphous form. Intrinsic dissolution testing is an efficient standard method to determine the intrinsic dissolution rate (IDR) of a drug and to test the potential dissolution advantage of the amorphous form. However, neither the Unite...

The problem of how to manage uncertainties when modeling or designing an engineering structure is briefly addressed here. Uncertainties may be relevant in the case of real structures, due to intrinsic variability of mechanical and physical properties as well as to the lack of knowledge when information are scarce and/or subject to some errors, for instance related to the test procedure. It is s...

percutaneous vertebroplasty is a promising therapeutic technique for pain control in patients with pathologic fractures of vertebral bodies. percutaneous vertebroplasty is an appropriate treatment for vertebral pathologic fractures, which is resistant to other usual treatment. it is a useful and only choice in special cases, because of less tissue damage and there is no risk of open surgery and...