3comparison between mechanical and thermal approaches

... both summer and winter conditions: air permeability to reduce heat dispersion in winter and guarantee passive cooling effect by combining convective and heat transport between the outer and inner ... the thermal potential of ventilated façade and its capacity for cooling These quantities are mathematically modeled by CFD techniques CFD is used to quantify and compare the effect of natural and ... parts of wall and can be incorporated and tested to integrate nonpermanent thermal inertia References [1] Balocco, C A simple model to study ventilated façades energy performance Energy and Buildings,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... women shake hands more often than older women In social situation, when two people meet, they shake hands When shaking hands English people shake hands for a few seconds, and they shake hands firmly ... greeting gestures like handshaking, hugging (sometimes, and for the same gender only) In England, the religion Christianity gives prominence to equality between male and female and freedom of love ... your age, what would you say and do? a How you do? b Please to meet you. and lightly embrace him c Please to meet you. And shake his hand d Say nothing and shake hand When you meet a person for...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 09:36

... missing values c Between patients and population controls d Between the patients who completed the questionnaires (baseline and admission, n = 133) and those excluded (n = 64) b Number and home municipality ... determine a) the differences in the 15D score and dimensions between patients and population controls, and b) the differences between the baseline and admission measurements within the patient ... the 15D score, and a negative value indicates worsening a multivariate unstandardised linear regression coefficient *** P < 0.001 between the completers and those excluded (0.778 and 0.777, respectively;...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... between psychiatric outpatients and regular students recruited from the same catchment area and during comparable time intervals and matched for sex and age, we found outpatients to report, and ... difference between parent report of students and patients and might be interpreted mistakenly Given non-significant differences between parent proxy Page of reports and significant differences between ... significant difference between outpatient and student samples was found on the Total (M = 48.0, SD = 13.8 and M = 47.7, SD = 14.0), Externalizing (M = 14.4, SD = 7.2 and M = 14.5, SD = 7.4) and Internalizing...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... during stages and NAVA allows optimizing the neuromechanical coupling and therefore patient-ventilator synchrony [33] and allows for optimized adequacy between ventilatory load and patient breathing ... during stage and stages and 4, respectively In NAVA, the trigger delay remained stable during stage and during stages and The expiratory trigger also remained stable in NAVA, during stage and during ... [20] Two electro-oculogram and three chin electromyogram leads were used to score REM and non-REM sleep The electroencephalogram, the right and left electro-oculogram, and the submental electromyogram...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... SBR matrix and SBS gels were mixed with NR at a given concentration, to investigate their effect on the morphology, mechanical, dynamic mechanical and thermal properties of raw SBR and NR Morphology ... Em ð1 þ 2:5UÞ ð4Þ where Ec and Em are Young’s modulus of composite and matrix, respectively and U is the volume fraction of the Fig Comparison between experimental and theoretical Young’s modulus ... acquisition and analysis The average of three tests is reported here The experimental error was within ±1% for tensile strength and modulus, and within ±3% for elongation at break values Dynamic mechanical...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 01:20

... sites in Flanders with well-known management and stand structure were selected for this study (Fig and Tab I) Three main forest management systems can be distinguished: high forest, coppice and coppice-with-standards ... Flanders N: number of tree-ring series AV No TR, AV RW and AV STDEV: the average number of tree rings, the average ring width and the average standard deviation of the tree-ring series MS and ... foundations for houses and revetments along a waterway and in a harbour Dendrochronological research proved that the main building activity took place between A.D 1250 and 1300 [14] In total,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... reproducible and uniform properties The great variability between individual trees, as well as within and between stands, indicates that there is large potential for more efficient and optimized forest and ... position in a tree affects strength and stiffness Furthermore, the relationships between the strength and stiffness and between some growth characteristics and strength and stiffness are shown The results ... extent on a knowledge of their mechanical properties Relationships between the raw material parameters and strength and stiffness, as well as their variability within a stand, a species, a tree or...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... target volumes and in other various critical structures in coplanar and non coplanar field IMRT Methods Patients Between July 2004 and April 2005, consecutive patients (3 males and females) with ... values for each organ with their standard deviation No difference was noted between CF and NCF for the ipsilateral and controlateral lenses, brainstem, temporomandibular joints, inner ears or parotids ... results and seems to be due to non coplanar fields rather than the PMBAO AS, KI, and PF conceived the study, collected data, and drafted the manuscript AA, LS, and NA collected data JBD and DA...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... has great impact on these values Souweine and coworkers [23] showed that the standard cutoff values of BAL and PSB would have to be lowered to 103 cfu/ml and 102 cfu/ml to retain diagnostic accuracy ... P aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp We found different levels of sensitivity (81%, 65%, 26%) and specificity (23%, 48%, 78%) for qualitative and quantitative (cutoffs 105 cfu/ml and 106 cfu/ml) ... sent to the laboratory and cultivated within hour of collection A dilution of the tracheal aspirate was prepared and inoculated with a calibrated loop on chocolate agar and MacConkey agar After...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... KaplanMeier curves, and any differences between curves were explored using log-rank or Tarone-Ware tests For correction of age between two groups of patients (patients with sepsis and patients with ... Figure 5) Between January 2003 and December 2003, a total of 164 patients were included in the study Sixty-six of the patients were admitted because of sepsis (severe sepsis and septic shock), and ... was conducted in a surgical ICU, and the patients with sepsis (76%) were mostly admitted after major abdominal surgery and had abdominal sepsis Haraldsen and Andersson [22] retrospectively evaluated...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... 0.0001) and the correlation between VE-induced changes in SV-TTE and SV-Flotrac was r2 = 0.77 (P < 0.0001; Figures and 3) After VE, the classification between Rs and NRs was similar using SV-TTE and ... hypovolemia SV-TTE and SV-Flotrac were compared using the Bland and Altman method [21] Bias (mean difference between SV-TTE and SV-Flotrac) represents the systematic error between both methods ... Comparison between SV-TTE and SV-Flotrac at baseline, during PLR, before VE and after VE Bland-Altman plots between stroke volume measured SV-Flotrac at baseline, during PLR, before VE and after...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... (RMM1) and the (co)variance between sire effects of GL and CD, and  e GL are the herd-year and residual variances for GL, and  hGL hCD and  e GL e CD are the herd-year and residual covariances between ... effects, sire, and maternal grandsire effects, respectively; s dm and s smgs are the covariances between additive direct and maternal genetic effects and between sire and maternal grandsire effects, ... heterogeneous correlation between direct and maternal effects of GL and between direct and maternal liabilities to CD and SB, as expected Similar estimates were found in the analyses of RMM1 and RMM2 Regarding...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... spots, hinting a positive correlation between the two variables Second, spots can be assessed easily and quickly, and scoring is less subjective than for other candidate measures such as the percentage ... (comparing true and estimated parameter values) and by using the deviance information criterion (DIC), estimates of marginal likelihoods with the method of Newton and Raftery [22] and via PPA The ... from ´ sheep with known sire (ram) were kept; 37, 182 and 278 records were from 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively; 407 and 90 were from flocks and 2, respectively Genetic connection was through two...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... damage of tissues and cells due to overdistention and shear stress (barotrauma or volutrauma) as well as mechanical damage due to the production, release and/ or activation of cytotoxic and inflammatory ... test and are presented as the mean ± SD All variables were normally distributed Comparisons between the prone and supine positions were made using a t test Comparisons between the ventral and ... test Results Lung mechanics and blood gases Lung mechanics and blood gas alterations and the biochemical data are presented in Tables and 2, respectively Blood gases and the compliance of the respiratory...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... were a tracheostomy group and a translaryngeal tube group Comparisons were made between the tracheostomy and translaryngeal groups Continuous data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation (SD) ... best after mechanical ventilation had lower BUN levels, higher albumin concentrations, moderate APACHE II scores, and had tracheostomies • The significant association between tracheostomy and patient ... patients experiencing MV weaning difficulty Patients and RCC admission criteria All patients transferred to the RCC between November 1999 and December 2005 were identified Patients were included...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... with venous and arterial occlusive disease in multiple organs, miscarriages, and livedo reticularis Materials and Methods We focused on the secondary prevention of stroke with APS, and compared ... therapy and a combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy in ischemic stroke patients with APS The subjects were 20 ischemic stroke patients with antiphospholipid antibody (10 males and ... females, mean age 48 years), who were hospitalized between October 2002 and November 2004 They consisted of 13 with primary antiphospholipid syndrome and with SLE-related antiphospholipid syndrome...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... AISC LRFD 3rd Edition ASD and LRFD Major Differences • Load Combinations and load factors • ASD results are based on the stresses and LRFD results are based on the forces and moments capacity • ... Ratio = 0.989 19 Tension Members Load Factor difference between LRFD and ASD 640.881 / 400.688 = 1.599 Equation Factor difference between LRFD and ASD LRFD = (1.5) × ASD Estimate required cross-sectional ... KL/r ratio • Compute Flexural-Torsional Buckling and Equivalent (KL/r)e • Find Maximum of KL/r and (KL/r)e • Compute Qs and Qa based on the b/t and h/tw ratios • Based on the KL/r ratio, compute...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 20:15

... AMD Thermal, Mechanical, and Chassis Cooling Design Guide AMD Thermal, Mechanical, and Chassis Cooling Design Guide This document specifies performance requirements for the design of thermal, mechanical, ... 18 v AMD Thermal, Mechanical, and Chassis Cooling Design Guide vi 23794H—November 2002 23794H—November 2002 AMD Thermal, Mechanical, and Chassis Cooling Design Guide List ... 20 iii AMD Thermal, Mechanical, and Chassis Cooling Design Guide iv 23794H—November 2002 23794H—November 2002 AMD Thermal, Mechanical, and Chassis Cooling Design Guide List...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... for LTAG (Poller and Becker, 1998) and HPSG (Torisawa et al., 2000) described in Section 2.2.1 and 2.2.2 We hereafter refer to PB and TNT for the C++ implementations of the former and a valiant1 ... trade-offs between the degree of CF approximation and the size of approximated CFGs as in Maxwell III and Kaplan (1993) Acknowledgment We thank Yousuke Sakao for his help in profiling TNT parser and ... 19(2):313–330 J T Maxwell III and R M Kaplan 1993 The interface between phrasal and functional constraints Computational Linguistics, 19(4):571–590 Y Miyao, T Ninomiya, and J Tsujii 2003 Lexicalized...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22