University of Patras

TL;DR: Pooled analyses suggest that MET with alpha-blockers or calcium channel blockers augments stone expulsion rates, reduces the time to stone expulsion, and lowers analgesia requirements for ureteral stones with and without ESWL for stones < or = 10 mm.

TL;DR: A new standard is currently being developed, the JPEG2000, which is not only intended to provide rate-distortion and subjective image quality performance superior to existing standards, but also to provide functionality that current standards can either not address efficiently or not address at all.

TL;DR: In this article, the main corrosion initiation mechanisms are shortly presented and the propagation period and the main consequences on mechanical properties of steel and concrete are analyzed, and the experimental results show that with increasing duration of exposure to a corrosive environment, the steel mass loss increases appreciably.

TL;DR: The proposed biological treatment process based on a trickling filter appears as a promising pretreatment step for coping with dye manufacturing wastewaters in terms of removing a significant portion of the organic content.

TL;DR: In this paper, a de Laval rotor with an open crack is investigated by way of application of the theory of shafts with dissimilar moments of inertia, and analytical solutions are obtained for the closing crack under the assumption of large static deflections, a situation common in turbomachinery.