Structural monitoring systems using wireless sensors have the potential to serve as low-cost alternatives to commercially available cable-based monitoring systems. This paper describes a wireless sensing prototype system specifically designed for structural monitoring applications. To validate the performance of the prototype system, a network of up to 20 wireless sensing units is installed on ...

Billings Clinic learned the following important lessons in implementing a pharmacy revenue integrity initiative: Integrate pharmacy data as fully as possible. Audit and review pharmacy data regularly to validate the data and identify key areas where education can be provided to support accuracy and compliance. Use technology to bridge gaps between pharmacy data, such as gaps in billable units a...

Uganda is the only country where the chronic and acute forms of human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness both occur and are separated by < 100 km in areas north of Lake Kyoga. In Uganda, Glossina fuscipes fuscipes is the main vector of the Trypanosoma parasites responsible for these diseases as well for the animal African Trypanosomiasis (AAT), or Nagana. We used highly polymorp...

This paper presents the first part of a series of uniaxial cyclic tests on lap-splices. The work is conducted within the framework of a project on the seismic behaviour of existing, poorly detailed bridge piers which are typically constructed with a lap-splice above the footing. The test series presented here was initiated to study the influence of load history, especially with regards to the c...

Electron transfer in the cations of bis(hydrazines), bridged by six different π-systems (compounds 1–6) is studied using ab initio and density functional theory (DFT) methods. Due to ionization from an antibonding combination of the lone-pair orbitals of the nitrogens in one of the hydrazine units, conjugation is introduced in the N—N bond of that unit. This leads to a shortening of the N—N bon...

Among the possible complications of hemodialysis polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) graft creation, perigraft seromas are rare, but sometimes troublesome. Debridement with drainage is usually the method of treatment. However, recurrence is not unusual. Herein we describe 2 cases of recurrent perigraft seroma treated by a simple but effective surgical method: excision of the pseudocapsule and revisi...

BACKGROUND Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is often carried out using a tourniquet and shed blood is collected in drains. Tranexamic acid decreases the external blood loss. Some blood loss may be concealed, and the overall effect of tranexamic acid on the haemoglobin (Hb) balance is not known. METHODS Patients with osteoarthrosis had unilateral cemented TKA using spinal anaesthesia. In a double...

We present an algorithmic classification of drainage networks on Mars. Altogether, 368 drainage networks were computationally extracted using MOLA topographical data from various martian locations covering 16 major geological units. The classification is quantitative and objective, as it is based on a numerical description of drainage networks. Applying a clustering algorithm to our dataset, we...

operation kheibarin which the war engineering supporting of jihad played an important role is one of the major military operations in the eight-year war implemented in hawr al-azimarea in the winter of 1981 with the aim of achieving the basra-to-al-amara road. building a13-km floating bridge named kheibar as thewaterrearsof the units on the forward edge of battle area, construction a 14-km road...