The microgravity experienced during space flight induces physiological changes that affect astronauts' health and performance. Simulations such as prolonged bed rest can mimic some of these changes and provide study conditions that are more accessible than during space flight itself. Previous studies, including several long and short-term bed-rest campaigns supported by ESA, have yielded signif...

As an important contribution to the fulfilment of renewable energy targets, offshore wind sector in Europe has grown significantly over past decade (WindEurope 2021). Jacket structures are becoming more widely used as substructures for turbines accommodate expansion towards greater water depth and provide a stable basis megastructures with hub heights than 200 m. However, there have been few st...

Statistics are presented on the characteristics of persons discharged from nursing homes over a 12-month period during 1984-85. Data are presented on discharge status (live or dead), duration of stay, dependencies in mobility and continence, living arrangements (prior to admission and after discharge), primary diagnoses at admission and discharge, primary sources of payment for admission and di...

We present JAPE, a flexible prototyping system to support the design of a new advanced collaborative virtual environment. We describe the utilization of different hardand software components to quickly build a flexible, yet powerful test bed for application and algorithm development. These components include a 3-D rendering toolkit, live video acquisition, speech transmission, and the control o...

In active computation paradigm the problem of delay and jitter control takes a complex form from its classical counterpart. Here stream processing time becomes a new factor. Also the concept of path bandwidth degenerates as data volume can change while in transit. The paper presents a dynamic feedback based algorithm for this problem. We have recently implemented a concept transport system, whe...

INTRODUCTION Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is an attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis. Usually, systemic complications due to BCG vaccination are quite rare. However, since BCG is a live vaccine, there is still a possibility that it may cause an infection. CASE PRESENTATION Hepatic granuloma was found incidentally in an asymptomatic 5-month-old infant who was found dead in his bed. The p...

mucosal surfaces of the body provide a universal entry portal for all known and emerging infectious pathogenic microbes. therefore, it seems that special vaccination strategies are needed for vaccines that can hinder the entry capability of pathogenic microbes through the mucosal surfaces. lactic acid bacteria are widely used in the food industry and are presently applied as delivery vehicles i...

in a novel dual bed reactor fischer-tropsch synthesis was studied by using two diffrent cobalt catalysts. an alkali-promoted cobalt catalyst was used in the first bed of a fixed-bed reactor followed by a rutenuim promoted cobalt catalyst in the second bed. the activity, product selectivity and accelerated deactivation of the system were assessed and compared with a conventional single bed react...