The modified base plate was made such that the HCT is at the bottom of the specimen to reduce evaporation effect on the HCT and also to ensure a good contact condition between the HCT and the soil specimen.
Adjuvant treatments were considered only in low-grade chondrosarcoma, giant cell tumors, chondroma and chondromixoid fibroma with liquid nitrogen (because absolute certainty of benignity of the lesion can only be assessed based on the entire specimen) to reduce the risk of local recurrence, improving the results of curettage alone [1, 4].
For isotopic analyses, we first ground off a portion of the surface layer of each shell specimen to reduce possible contamination.
This was carried out by introducing lateral side U-shaped and V-shaped grooves in the standard M T) specimen to reduce the size of the plane stress surface regions.
Pretreatment of specimens to reduce viral load (i.e., with heat inactivation or polyethylene glycol) will be recommended in future cases, even though such treatment may affect laboratory results (9, 18 ).
For the glass fibre reinforced composite material with a [(±45/0)4/±45]T lay-up this led to the proposal of an optimized geometry: a plane cruciform type specimen with a circular central region of reduced thickness and an adapted corner fillet at the intersection of the arms.
To investigate the mechanical properties of UHPFRC, according to GB/T 50081-2002 (2002), JSCE (2008), and ASTM C109-11 (2011), compression tests for 100 mm cubes and uniaxial tension tests for wire-meshed and notched dog-bone specimens (thickness × width × length of reduced section = 20 × 150 × 190 mm) were performed.
In addition, degrees of damage of specimens reduced gradually and the type of destruction showed a transformation trend from stretching failure towards shear failure when the slenderness ratio increased.
Conclusion In patients with a high pre-test probability of ventilator-acquired pneumonia, recent introduction of antibiotics significantly reduced the diagnostic accuracy of protected brush specimen by reducing rates of positive direct examination and culture.
Furthermore, histology and biochemical analyses of bronchoalveolar lavage specimen showed reduced signs of lung injury and pulmonary inflammation in OLC ventilated animals [ 5].
