BACKGROUND Identification of locations with elevated plantar pressures is important in daily foot care for patients with rheumatoid arthritis, metatarsalgia and diabetes. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the proficiency of podiatrists, pedorthists and orthotists, to distinguish locations with elevated plantar pressure in patients with metatarsalgia. METHODS Ten podiatrists, te...

Taking into account the pressure anisotropy in the solar wind, we study the magnetic field and plasma parameters downstream of a fast shock, as functions of upstream parameters and downstream pressure anisotropy. In our theoretical approach, we model two cases: a) the perpendicular shock and b) the oblique shock. We use two threshold conditions of plasma instabilities as additional equations to...

The formulation of macroscopic strength criteria under cyclic loading ductile porous media containing a pressure sensitive and non-associated plastic matrix is still pending issue. In this paper, new approach developed by using the bipotential theory. framework, non Generalized Standard Materials (GSM) are transformed into class Implicit (ISM), allowing recovery flow rule normality in weak form...

BACKGROUND Several authors have correlated the increase of cardiovascular risk with the nutritional status, however there are different criteria for the classification of overweight and obesity in children. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the performance of three nutritional classification criteria in children, as definers of the presence of obesity and predictors of high blood pressure in schoolchild...

The high-pressure inactivation of Escherichia coli, Listeria innocua, and Staphylococcus aureus was studied in black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon). The processing parameters examined included pressure (300 to 600 MPa) and temperature (30 to 50°C). In addition, the pressure-hold period (0 to 15 min) was investigated, thus allowing both single-pulse pressure effects (i.e., zero holding time) and...

Abstract Mortar in masonry structures can be subjected to both uniaxial and triaxial loading. Determining the mechanical properties and/or failure criteria of commonly used mortar is necessary for structural performance assessment new existing buildings using non-destructive testing finite element modelling methods. In this paper, stress–strain behaviour a commercially available cement-lime inv...

The conventional quantizer design based on average error minimization over a training set does not guarantee a good subjective behaviour on individual images even if perceptual metrics are used. In this work a novel criterion for transform coder design is analyzed in depth. Its aim is to bound the perceptual distortion in each individual quantization according to a non-linear model of early hum...