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Mechanical characterisation of additively manufactured PA12 lattice structures under quasi-static compression
No full textThe primary advantage of lattice structures over other cellular structures is the possibility of obtaining higher mechanical properties combined with lower weight. This paper describes the quasi-static mechanical behaviour of eight lightweight lattice structures of various tessellated unit cell topologies using finite element (FE) analysis. Three types of structures were additively manufactured with polyamide (PA12) material using the advanced Multi Jet Fusion technology and were tested under quasi-static compressive loading. The experimental results were used to validate the FE models of the lattices. We compared specific mechanical properties of all eight structures designed with an identical strut diameter of 1 mm or an identical relative density of 0.095. Such comparisons provide a different order of preference for the lattice structures. Based on Maxwell's stability criterion, the current eight structures are of bending-dominated nature; however, these structures may exhibit stretch-dominated behaviour due to a reasonable amount of struts aligned in the direction of the external load. An excellent combination of stiffness, strength, and energy absorption can be obtained by the structures, when the load is applied in a specific direction with respect to the strut elements
Muscle activity on head-first compression responses of a finite element neck model
No full textEffects of muscle activation on human neck kinematic responses under compressive loads have not been un-derstood empirically due to the limitation of testing on in vivo test specimens. Advanced computational models can potentially provide information to improve our understanding of such responses. This study used a previ-ously developed ligamentous finite element (FE) neck model, further integrated with muscles, fleshy tissue, and skin of the neck to predict the influence of passive and active muscles on responses to neck compression. For validation, post-mortem human subject (PMHS) and volunteer responses in frontal sled impacts were used to compare the dynamic response of the model with passive and active muscles, respectively. An objective eval-uation of the validation responses suggested the 'fair' to 'good' biofidelity rating of the muscular system model. The compressive impacts, used to validate the ligamentous FE neck, were methodologically applied in the current study including the muscles with various activation states, flesh, and skin. The contribution of muscles (passive or active) resulted in an increase in the peak lower neck compression and shear forces and in a reduction in the upper neck forces on average; the role of active state dynamics of the muscles was crucial on the magnitude of the forces. Therefore, modeling of the muscles in a computational neck model may not be neglected to study a head-first compressive impact
Comparing Effects of Four Toothpaste Types (Nasim, Crest 7, Crest Sensitivity and Daroghar3) on Rate of Enamel Abrasion
No full textIntroduction: Toothpaste should have the most plaque removal efficacy with the least abrasiveness. The aim of this study was to evaluate enamel abrasion induced by four toothpaste types.
Methods: In this in vitro experimental study, 24 dental samples were divided into four groups of six. The initial surface roughness was measured with the roughness measuring device. Regarding abrasion test with Daroghar3, Nasim, Crest7 and Crest sensitivity toothpastes, samples were located in V8cross brushing machine. After washing and drying, the secondary surface roughness was again measured with the roughness measuring device. Average wear of samples was analyzed by means of ONEWAY ANOVA.
Results: The study results indicated no significant difference among the four types of toothpaste (p=0.855). The toothpastes were ranked in regard with average roughness changes as fallows: Nasim, Crest 7, Crest sensitivity and Daroghar3.
Conclusion: The toothpastes investigated in this study did not reveal any difference in terms of wear index
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Extended segmented beat modulation method for cardiac beat classification and electrocardiogram denoising
No full textBeat classification and denoising are two challenging and fundamental operations when processing digital electrocardiograms (ECG). This paper proposes the extended segmented beat modulation method (ESBMM) as a tool for automatic beat classification and ECG denoising. ESBMM includes four main steps: (1) beat identification and segmentation into PQRS and TU segments; (2) wavelet-based time-frequency feature extraction; (3) convolutional neural network-based classification to discriminate among normal (N), supraventricular (S), and ventricular (V) beats; and (4) a template-based denoising procedure. ESBMM was tested using the MIT–BIH arrhythmia database available at Physionet. Overall, the classification accuracy was 91.5% while the positive predictive values were 92.8%, 95.6%, and 83.6%, for N, S, and V classes, respectively. The signal-to-noise ratio improvement after filtering was between 0.15 dB and 2.66 dB, with a median value equal to 0.99 dB, which is significantly higher than 0 (p < 0.05). Thus, ESBMM proved to be a reliable tool to classify cardiac beats into N, S, and V classes and to denoise ECG tracings
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Recurrence Analysis of Human Body Movements during Activities of Daily Living
No full textRecurrence quantification analysis (RQA) is used to differentiate and analyze the regular and irregular parts of a time-series signal using recurrence plots and quantification measures. This work presents RQA for human body movements during routine activities of daily life (ADL) using parameters recorded using a wearable sensor attached to the test subjects waist. The current research uses data from 8 subjects performing 5 different daily life activities, lying and stand, pick and stand, sitting and stand, step up and down, and walking. Simulating the RQA plots for activity and non-activity phases for squared vector magnitude parameter for each of the record we quantify the level of signal stability and disruption in terms of RQA analysis measures recurrence rate (RR), determinism (DET) and line entropy (ENT). The RQA parameters reveal a chaotic behavior in case of activity (RR=0.249, DET=0.510, ENT=0.732), and a stable or least chaotic behavior in case of non-activity (RR=0.466, DET=0.726, ENT=1.205) regions of time. Distinguishing values for RQA-based measures for different human body movements taking place during daily life activities might be used for human activity monitoring, fall detection for elderly and body movement modelling and analysis alaorithms
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
T-wave alternans identification in direct and indirect fetal electrocardiography
No full textThe fetal electrocardiogram (FECG) is the recording of the electrical activity of the fetal heart. Morphologically, FECG shows the standard P-QRS-TU electrocardiographic pattern and a heart rate (HR) of 120-160 bpm. There are two techniques to acquire FECG: the direct one (DI-FECG), with a spiral wire electrode located on the fetal scalp; and the indirect one (IN-FECG), with electrodes located on the mother's abdomen. Fetal T-wave alternans (TWA) represents a possible cause of unexplained fetal deaths; its investigation, however, is challenging. This chapter discusses about this scientific and clinical problem, and proposes a procedure to identify TWA from both DI-FECG and IN-FECG. The procedure includes the following 3 steps: (1) automatic identification of fetal R peaks, performed through the improved fetal Pan-Tompkins Algorithm; (2) FECG filtering, performed through linear filtering and the segmented-beat modulation method; and (3) automatic TWA identification, performed through the heart-rate adaptive match filter. Application of this procedure to 5 DI-FECG and 20 IN-FECG from 5 fetuses confirmed its goodness for fetal applications and suggested that fetuses show TWA even when healthy. Moreover, TWA detected in DI-FECG was comparable to that in IN-FECG, suggesting that TWA identification was reliable also in IN-FECG, which is much more affected by artifacts and interferences than DI-FECG
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
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