Volume 61, Issue 5 — May 2021
Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Keywords: Equivalence models, Thermodynamic properties, Aspen Plus®, Essential Oils Extraction
One of the most important crops worldwide is the citrus. In 2011, Mexico provided 5.86% of the world production of oranges, generating approximately a million tons of orange residuals. It is significa...
Department of Dermatology, Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Keywords: thermal imaging, dental allergology, skin patch testing
Abstract: In the present study we aimed to optimize the thermal imaging method for evaluation of skin patch test reactions in dental clinical allergology. A total of 30 patients without a history of ...
Department of Environmental Engineering, Yeditepe University, Turkey
Keywords: Furniture Industry, Waste Assessment, Environment, Fire, Recycling
Occurring forest products industry waste is not to be underestimated. Although there are many advantages of wood as a renewable source of processed wood waste can be used as secondary raw material for...
Department of Electrical Engineering, Hanoi University of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Keywords: LFC, SMES, PD-based FL controller, PI, frequency deviation, tie-line power bias
Load demands in a power system are randomly and constantly changing over time, leading to the deviation of network frequency from its nominal value (50Hz or 60Hz). Due to the undesired consequences of...
Department of Computer Science, Istanbul University, Turkey
Keywords: Splice Site Classification, Fuzzy Number, Optimal Window Size, Position Specific Scoring Matrix
Recently, the developed technologies simplify to obtain the DNA sequences. Therefore, identifying genes from the large amount of DNA sequence data is an important issue in bioinformatics and it depend...
Department of Surgery, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China
Keywords: thoracoabdominal injuries; trauma; treatment; emergency
Multiple penetrating thoracoabdominal injuries by falling are uncommon and are associated with a high mortality. A 60-year-old male was impaled through the chest, and abdomen by two 2.5 cm diameter st...
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Keywords: Fracture Mechanics, Strain Hardening, Abaqus, Fatigue
In this study effect of strain hardening on crack growth rate has been examined analytically on the side edge notched specimen of 5052 Aluminum alloy in mode I under constant amplitude loading using f...
Department of Orthopedics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
Keywords: War injuries, External Fixation, Damage Control Orthopedics, Bosnian War, Traffic accident.
Introduction: The Damage Control Orthopedics (DCO) with external fixation is the most valuable aid for a surgeon, when a quick and efficient solution to war and civil injuries to the extremities and ...
Department of Public Health, Ankara University, Turkey
Keywords: Smoking, cessation, cancer, relatives of patients
Purpose: Smoking habit remains to be a major social problem despite new disincentive measures taken recently. In this study, we aimed to evaluate smoking cessation rates of first-degree relatives of p...