conclusions it was noted that a relatively high prevalence of growth failure was observed in the study sample. for minimizing the impact of significant risk factors on growth failure, the early detection of growth failure and its risk indicators is of great importance. in addition, when the focus of the analysis is on the different nested sources of variability and the data has a hierarchical s...

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In the present investigation, we deal with the reliability characteristics of a repairable system consisting of two independent operating units, by incorporating the coverage factor. The probability of the successful detection, location and recovery from a failure is known as the coverage probability. The reboot delay and common cause shock failure are also considered. The times to failure of t...

background: infertility is an increasing medical and social problem. in vitro fertilization (ivf) has become a common and accessible treatment for a wide variety of indications that have variable outcomes. natural killer (nk) cells have been identified as relevant immunological factors involved in reproductive success or failure. objective: the aim of this study was to compare the percentage of...

In layered and blocky rock slopes, toppling failure is a common mode of instability that may occur in mining engineering. If this type of slope failure occurs as a consequence of another type of failure, it is referred to as the secondary toppling failure. “Slide-head-toppling” is a type of secondary toppling failures, where the upper part of the slope is toppled as a consequence of a semi-circ...

watermelon is handled and stored in bulk package as some other fruits and vegetables are. package height must be so appropriately selected that bottom fruit layers will receive no damage or failure. this research was performed to determine and compare the mechanical properties of two varieties in three sizes of watermelon under static load conditions to obtain parameters used in transportation ...

Heart failure is associated with high morbidity and mortality and is proving to be an economic burden in developing countries. A number of therapeutic agents are presently employed in heart failure; but they are not sufficient to control symptoms of heart failure. Moreover, the prevalence of chronic heart failure is progressively increasing and thus there is a continuing need to develop effecti...

In this paper, the authors have focused on the stochastic analysis of an internet data center (IDC), which consists of a database main server connected to a redundant server. Observing the different possibilities of functioning of the system, analysis has been done to evaluate the various reliability characteristics of the system. The system can completely fail due to failure of redundant serve...

this paper deals with a failure investigation of boiler feed pump’s shaft of a steam power plant. boiler feed water pump is a specific type of pump used to pump, feed water into a steam boiler and is one of most important part of steam power plants. feed pumps failure may cause failure of another part of steam power station, therefore keep them safe is an important problem. there are 12 feed pu...