Methods Of Technical Diagnostics Research Articles

A method of technical diagnostics for offshore structures

This paper describes the results of measurements and analysis of the parameters, characterizing technical state of offshore platforms in Vietnam Sea. Based on decreasing in time material characteristics because of corrosion and local destruction assessment on residual life time of platforms is given and variants for its repair are recommended. The results allowed to confirm advantage of proposed technical diagnostic method in comparison with others and have been used for oil and gas platform of Joint Venture "Vietsovpetro" in South Vietnam.

Basic Clinical Parasitology

The fifth edition of this text on clinical parasitology has been printed some eight years after the fourth edition. The authorship has expanded, now including Dr Franklin A. Neva, chief of the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases and head of the Section of Clinical Parasitology at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. This book presents an excellent and informative basic approach to an understanding of parasitic diseases. After a general brief overview of parasitology, the book details the four large groups of parasites: (1) Protozoa, (2) Nemathelminthes (roundworms), (3) Cestoda (tapeworms), and (4) Trematoda (flukes). Each of these four sections are divided into three parts: (1) a brief introduction, (2) parasites of the intestinal tract, and (3) extraintestinal parasites. This is followed by a section on Arthropoda, and the final section deals with technical diagnostic methods and a brief overview of treatment admonitions. The basic format of the text is