background the choice of what parameters are needed for the diagnosis of metabolic syndrome (mets) has been criticized due to the lack of an actual “gold standard” diagnostic test even in adults. this problem seems to be greater in children and adolescents. objectives stability assessment of factor structure underlying metabolic syndrome (mets) components from childhood to adolescence in a pane...

overall energy efficiency (oee) is an important indicator of energy consumption in tillage operations. tillage energy was studied objectivity to accurately measure the oee of mf399-4wd tractor. the tractor was equipped with different types of sensors to measure and calibrate the required data including: fuel consumption, actual forward speed, wheel speed and slippage, engine speed, draft and dr...

In this paper, the acoustic environment in a vehicle cabin under the influence of highfrequencies aerodynamic sources has been studied. Some panels on the windshield, the roof, the doors, the front pillars, and the floor of a vehicle simulated as input source of noise when the car is moving at high speed, i.e. 112 km/h. The status of vehicle cabin in each of these modes has been studied and com...

assessment of the correlation between rock brittleness and rock fracture toughness has been the subject of extensive research works in the recent years. unfortunately, the brittleness measurement methods have not yet been standardized, and rock fracture toughness cannot be estimated satisfactorily by the proposed indices. in the present study, statistical analyses are performed on some data col...

The equivalence between a noise source in combination with a resistance, and a thermal bath, is a part of fluctuation theory. This observation was the motivation for the author’s 1960 calculation of the power flow between modes of vibration excited by random noise sources. The resulting relation between power flow and uncoupled energy of vibration is therefore more than a thermal analogy; it is...

Statistical Energy Analysis is a statistical method in vibroacoustics entirely based on the application of energy balance that is the first principle of thermodynamics. In this study, the definition of vibrational entropy is introduced for sub-systems containing energy and modes. The rate of entropy production at interfaces between sub-systems is also derived. Finally, in steady-state condition...

The ideas of the approach to vlbratton analysts called Stattsttcal Energy Analysts (SEA) are e~plored wtthout going mto great techmcal detad The arm oj thts descrtptlon zs to gwe gutdance to those with parttcular vtbtatton problems who may ask whether the), should be using SEA and, t f so, what expectattons they should have o f tt In the fivst sectton, SEA in its most common fo rm ts tllustrate...

This paper is concerned with the derivation of SEA equations from structural ray equations. Rays are assumed to be uncorrelated leading to the additivity of energy. Inside all subsystems, the energy density is the sum of a direct field from driving forces, a reflected field from the boundary and a transmitted field from adjacent subsystems. Assuming a ”rain-on-theroof” excitation and a compact ...

This work describes a novel method for statistical analysis of multi-material components. The application scenario is industrial 3D X-ray computed tomography, emphasizing metrology of artefact affected plastics-metal components. The presented work makes use of dual energy CT data acquisition for artefact reduction, in order to optimize CT scans of multi-material components. Using statistical an...