introduction: carpal tunnel syndrome (cts) is the most common compressive neuropathy in occupational medicine. it may be presented with numbness, tingling, and motor weakness of the hand. repetitive hand finger motions, repeated extreme bending of the wrist as well as forceful gripping, and repeated forces on the base of the palm and wrist are occupational risk factors associated with cts. this...

In a recent paper Cristea and Tichy introduced several types of discrepancies of point sets on the s-dimensional Sierpiński carpet and proved various relations between these discrepancies. In the present paper we prove a general lower bound for those discrepancies in terms of N , the cardinality of the point set, and we give a probabilistic proof for the existence of point sets with “small” dis...

In this paper we describe CARPET, a parallel programming language based on the cellular automata model. CARPET is the language used for programming cellular algorithms in the CAMEL environment. CAMEL is an environment designed to support the development of high performance applications in science and engineering. It offers the computing power of a highly parallel computer, hiding the architectu...

The computation of the Hausdorff measure of fractals is the basic problem in fractal geometry. However, this is very difficult. The genetic algorithm is one of optimization algorithms to resolve complicated problems of wide scope, and has great capabilities in self-organizing, self-adaptation and self-learning. Lifeng Xi professor put forward to the thought of computing the Hausdorff measure of...

The present study was performed to determine the depuration time and ability of Donax trunculus (Wedge Clam) and Tapes decussatus (Carpet Shell) contaminated with Escherichia coli, Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium and Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Clams were contaminated with each bacterium at the level of 7.0 - 8.0 Log10 cfu/g. After contamination, clams were analyzed every 3...

It has been shown that a spherical invisibility cloak originally proposed by Pendry et al. can be electromagnetically detected by shooting a charged particle through it, whose underlying mechanism stems from the asymmetry of transformation optics applied to motions of photons and charges [PRL 103, 243901 (2009)]. However, the conceptual three-dimensional invisibility cloak that exactly follows ...

Household contamination with Salmonella enterica increases when occupational exposure exists (cattle farms with known salmonellosis in cattle, a salmonella research laboratory, or a veterinary clinic experiencing an outbreak of salmonellosis). Fifteen of 55 (27.2%) vacuum cleaner bags from households with occupational exposure to S. enterica were positive versus 1 of 24 (4.2%) without known exp...