Physical exercise is known to have beneficial effects on healthy individuals, but there are insufficient data concerning the effects of physical exercise in chronic end-stage kidney failure patients on haemodialysis. The aim of this study is to assess the effects…

The purpose of this pilot study was to develop and examine the psychometric properties of the Diabetic Care Teacher Support Questionnaire, a 31-item self-report instrument to assess diabetic children’s perceptions of the diabetes specific support received from their teachers at…

In a previous study, we investigated, at a laboratory scale, the chemical activation of two different carbon fibres (CF), their porosity characterization, and their optimization for hydrogen storage [1]. In the present work, this study is extended to: (i) a…

A new microwave assisted desolvation system based on the use of a TM010 cavity (MWDS2) has been developed and evaluated in plasma based analytical techniques: inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The…

This paper presents recent advances in the areas of modeling, design, and fabrication of microwave filters for space applications. A fast and accurate hybrid analysis method, combining boundary integral resonant mode expansion (BI-RME) and integral equation (IE) techniques, is described.…

Silver halide sensitized gelatin (SHSG) is one of the most promising techniques for the fabrication of transmission holographic optical elements, achieving relatively high sensitivity of photographic material with the low scattering and high light stability of dichromated gelatin. In this…

Numerical calculation of Fresnel patterns through fast Fourier transforms usually requires an extremely large number of samples in order to fulfil the Nyquist sampling condition. In many applications, the cut-off frequency of the system is much below the limit fixed…

Technological innovation requires a technical preparation in material, financial and human resources. However, without a clear corporate culture, the technical side of technological innovation will hardly develop in a satisfactory manner.
In this light, we analyze the origin of a…

The research presented in this paper approaches the issue of indoor localization using the fuzzy logic framework for modeling and dealing with the uncertainty of the position measurements. Fuzzy logic presents properties that make it suitable tool to represent and…

Problems encountered in the description of ion-induced compositional changes in non-monatomic solids, on the basis of the binary collision approach (BCA), are reported. The ingredients of a collisional model responsible for eventual ambiguity of computer simulation results are pointed out.…