In Vitro Activity and Durability of a Combination of an Antibiofilm 1 and an Antibiotic against Vascular Catheter Colonization 2 3 4 5 6 Mohammad D. Mansouri,* ,a,b Richard A. Hull, Charles E. Stager, Richard M. Cadle, 7 and Rabih O. Darouiche 8 9 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA; and Michael E. DeBakey 10 Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas, USA 11 12 13 Running Titl...

The present paper describes the CAE-based approach for durability analysis that is being implemented in Universal Mechanism software to predict the fatigue damage of parts of mechanical systems. The approach predicts fatigue strength of structural components of machines and mechanisms based on results of simulating their dynamics taking into account real working conditions. An application to th...

The presented project is a first attempt to make probabilistic performance based durability designs of concrete structures. The performance based durability design is based upon realistic models that describes the future behaviour of the concrete and the environment. To make calculations it is necessary to quantify the parameters included in the chosen models. In this paper two models that desc...

The window between a film’s theatrical and video releases has been steadily declining with some studios now testing day-and-date strategies (i.e., when a film is released across multiple channels at once). We present a model of consumer choice that examines trade-offs between substitutable products (theatrical and video forms), the possibility of purchasing both alternatives, and the timing of ...

The number of games designed for various applications in healthcare is growing rapidly. However, balancing the game can be a difficult task, especially without a guiding vision or design framework. Here, we propose a philosophical framework inspired by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, which can be used as an approach to designin...

Extrusion dies are usually regenerated several times (min 4 times). The phenomenon of extended life after each regenerative nitriding process has not been explained. In this work, the regeneration process of dies used in the extrusion of aluminium profiles has been presented. In the article, it was sought to explain the cause of increased die durability after the third or fourth nitriding. Also...

The durability of economic relationships, such as employment or family relationships, is influenced by agents’ willingness to “commit” by making match-specific investments or arrangements. This paper shows that many properties of optimal decisions and comparative statics in such models are quite robust, emerging from the abstract structure of commitment decisions rather than specific assumption...