During a severe accident in either sodium-cooled or water-cooled nuclear reactors, jets of molten fuel may impinge on the coolant resulting fuel-coolant interactions (FCI). Experimental programs are being conducted to study this phenomenology and support development models. Due optical opacity test section walls, sodium coolant, apparent water presence intense ebullition, high-speed X-ray imagi...

Competitiveness of firms is studied mostly from a strategic management perspective. It only rarely subject analysis the viewpoint operations. In this paper, we aim to connect these two approaches using resource-based view firm, popularly called RBV theories. First, provide comprehensive definition firm competitiveness and propose conceptual index (Firm Index or FCI) measure it, based on theory ...

T he conventional laboratory diagnosis of lymphoma using tissue biopsies is based on histology diagnosis and immunohistochemistry. However, this method is tedious and involves multiple steps and procedures. In developed countries, immunophenotyping by flow cytometry is readily performed on tissue biopsies such as lymph nodes for diagnostics purposes. However, the scenario is different in Malays...

BACKGROUND This study's objective was to identify adverse events following common orthopaedic procedures, and to estimate the incidence rates and risks of these events and their associations with age, sex, and comorbidities. METHODS This retrospective cohort study manually reviewed and extracted electronic medical data on the incidence and predictors of adverse events that occurred within 90 ...

The electron-hole explicitly correlated Hartree-Fock method (eh-XCHF) is presented as a general strategy for investigation of electron-hole correlation and computation of electron-hole recombination probability. The eh-XCHF method is a variational method which uses explicitly correlated wavefunction that depends on the electron-hole inter-particle distances. It is shown that the explicitly corr...

The increasing risk and incidence of computer misuse has raised awareness in the public and private sectors of the need to develop defensive and offensive responses. There is now widespread recognition of the importance of specialised forensic computing investigation (FCI) teams able to operate across conventional boundaries of law enforcement and national defence. More specifically, recent res...

We propose using sum-over-states calculations with the compact wavefunctions of Monte Carlo configuration interaction to approach accurate values for higher-order dipole properties up to second hyperpolarizabilities in a controlled way. We apply the approach to small systems that can generally be compared with full configuration interaction (FCI) results. We consider hydrogen fluoride with a 6-...

A SiC-based flow channel insert (FCI) is used as an electrical and thermal insulator in the Dual Coolant Lead Lithium (DCLL) blanket. To reduce the stress of the FCI structural material, the pressure equalization slot (PES) is implemented in the FCI wall. However, the PES affects the tritium transfer behavior and loss rate. Therefore it is important to examine the tritium loss rate and ensure i...

Cooling of amputated parts during transportation delays the onset of ischaemic tissue damage and contributes to successful replantation. The most common error in preservation of amputated parts is exposing them to temperatures, which may cause cold injury, and thus render them unusable. Two case reports will be presented, which illustrate how freezing cold injury (FCI) of amputated digits may d...

BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE The liver biopsy has been considered the gold standard for the diagnosis and quantification of fibrosis. However, this method presents limitations. In addition, the non-invasive evaluation of liver fibrosis is a challenge. The aim of this study was to validate the fibrosis cirrhosis index (FCI) index in a cohort of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/hepatitis C virus (H...