A brief survey of plastic scintillators for various radiation measurement applications is presented here. The utility of plastic scintillators for practical applications such as gamma radiation monitoring, real-time radioisotope detection and screening is evaluated in laboratory and field measurements. This study also reports results of Monte Carlo-type predictive responses of common plastic sc...

An interface constitutive model which accounts for both reversible elastic, as well as irreversible inelastic separation-sliding deformations at the interface prior to failure has been developed and implemented in a finite-element computer program. A set of experiments has been conducted to determine the constitutive parameters in the interface model for adhesivelybonded components made from an...

The WHO surgical checklist was introduced to most UK surgical units following the WHO "Safe Surgery Saves Lives" initiative. The aim of this audit was to review patient's safety in the delivery of surgical care and to evaluate the practical application of the new WHO surgical checklist. We conducted a retrospective audit of patients who received operative treatment under general anaesthesia at ...

This paper expands the use of network flows to the multidimensional case, in which network flows are associated with vectors, instead of the conventionally used scalar values. A method for solving a multidimensional max-flow problem is systematically developed, on the basis of the primal-dual algorithm. It is demonstrated that upon reduction to a one-dimensional case, the method is transformed ...

Adipose stem cells (ASCs) are a type of adult stem cells that share common characteristics with typical mesenchymal stem cells. In the last decade, ASCs have been shown to be a useful cell resource for tissue regeneration. The major role of regenerative medicine in this century is based on cell therapy in which ASCs hold a key position. Active research on this new type of adult stem cell has be...

In the last four decades, the uses and application of ion-selective electrodes was widely applied in several researches as well as analytical projects. These electrodes are varied between solid state electrodes, liquid membrane electrodes, gas membrane electrodes, and plastic membrane electrodes. Plasticizers are one of the major components of the plastic membranes. As it is usually known, they...