abstract background: the prevalence of self‑neglect among the elderly is expected to rise with a rapid increase in the growth of the older population. however, self‑neglect in the elderly and the factors related to it are not fully understood due to the limited research in the area, lack of consensus in the definition of the concept, and limited instrumentation. the purpose of this study was to...

more than eighty percent of patients with coronary heart diseases (chd) have conventional risk factors. prevalence of well known risk factors seems to show a different pattern in younger patients and individual above 55 years. to evaluate the pattern of conventional chd risk factors in healthy individuals in two different age groups. a large scale population based survey of 31999 individuals fr...

long-term ingestion of large amounts of fluoride can lead to potentially severe skeletal problems and neurological consequences. the study was conducted to assess and compare intelligence quotient of children living in high and low fluoride areas in kutch, gujarat, india.a cross-sectional descriptive survey was conducted among 100 school children aged 8 to 10 years, living in kutch district, gu...

objective: the purpose of this study was to compare the use of cross-sectional imaging techniques verses surgery in locating parotid masses. material and methods: our study was performed on patients assumed to have parotid masses from dec 2010 to dec 2011. before surgery, imaging studies (computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging) of parotid were done. after surgery, we compared the su...

Sound transmission through ducts of constant cross section with a uniform inviscid mean flow and a constant acoustic lining (impedance wall) is classically described by a modal expansion, where the modes are eigenfunctions of the corresponding Laplace eigenvalue problem along a duct cross section. A natural extension for ducts with cross section and wall impedance that are varying slowly (compa...

This study is concerned with the numerical analysis, formulation, programming and computation of steady, 3D conservation equations of reacting laminar flow heat and mass transfer in ducts of arbitrary cross-sections. The non-orthogonal boundary-fitted coordinate transformation method is applied to the Cartesian form of overall-continuity, momenta, energy and species-continuity equations, parabo...

We study the relative error in conductance calculations, for simulated flow of a single component single phase fluid through a capillary in three dimensions, by the Lattice Boltzmann (LB) method with bounce-back boundary conditions. The relative error with respect to analytical results for capillary cross-sections of circular, triangular and square shapes are calculated as a function of the cro...

The cross-sectional geometry of an embedded microchannel influences the electromechanical response of a soft microfluidic sensor to applied surface pressure. When a pressure is exerted on the surface of the sensor deforming the soft structure, the cross-sectional area of the embedded channel filled with a conductive fluid decreases, increasing the channel’s electrical resistance. This electrome...

Eurocode EN 1994-1-1 currently covers design of concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns using normal strength materials with nominal yield (fy) not more than 460 MPa and concrete characteristic cylinder less 50 MPa. As high have been increasingly used in construction, this paper aims to extend current equation for square rectangular CFSTs incorporate materials. A comprehensive experimental...