... Fatigue strengthofsteel structures; Part 1.10: Selection ofsteel for fracture toughness and through-thickness properties; Part 1.12: Additional rules for the extension of EN 1993 up to steel ... parts of EN 1993 (6) The provisions in this Standard apply to axisymmetric shells and associated circular or annular plates and to beam section rings and stringer stiffeners where they form part of ... be of any length 1.3.1.3 complete axisymmetric shell A shell composed of a number of parts, each of which is a shell of revolution 1.3.1.4 shell segment A shell of revolution in the form of a...
... effective combination of Lin and Dasgupa’s [37] and Jeannot and Cantwell’s [34] earlier works Enrichment factors of between 260- to 1600-fold were achieved within 10 of extraction of trace nitroaromatic ... membrane with a flowing donor phase and a stagnant acceptor phase [56] The other is based on the hollow fiber with a stirred donor phase and a stagnant acceptor phase within the 14 lumen (channel) of ... ofhollow fiber used for the purpose was U-shaped, as shown in Figure 1-8 One piece of 8-cm commercial porous polypropylene hollow fiber with an ID of 600 µm, a wall thickness of 200 µm, and...
... multiple cloning site of the vector by digestion with NcoI and PstI This vector backbone was excised from an agarose gel and purified For both standard and error-prone PCR amplification of hMnSOD genes, ... the uncatalyzed dismutation of superoxide [32] A least-square fit of Eqn (1) to the data of Fig yields the constants given in the legend of Fig The values of kcat ⁄ Km and kcat for catalysis by ... due to a loss of the interaction between the side chains of Asn73 and Gln143 The X-ray crystal structure of hMnSOD shows that the side chain amide ˚ of Asn73 is near to (3.1 A) and possibly hydrogen...
... images of the nanosheet TiO2 calcined at 600 and 700 °C showed almost nanoparticles with a mixture of anatase and rutile TiO2 structure (about 10–50 nm in diameter, at 600 °C, Fig 6(g–h)), and rutile ... Isoda and Prof H Kurata, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University for the use of TEM apparatus and to Prof T Yoko, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University for the use of XRD ... loop), indicating the existence of mesopores The pore size distribution of the sample, as shown in the inset of Fig 4, showed that the nanosheet TiO2 with Fig SEM images of the as-synthesized flower-like...
... Linear Complementarity Problem FRC = FibreReinforcedConcrete SFRC = SteelFibreReinforcedConcrete NSC = Normal StrengthConcrete HSC = High StrengthConcrete TPB = Three-Point Bending FEM ... PRELIMINARIES AND LITERATURE REVIEW 48 experimental measurements on steel fibre reinforcedconcrete containing 0.3 and 1% in volume of hooked end steel fibres in high and low strength concrete, respectively ... the history of fiber reinforcedconcrete (FRC) and the modelling of its behaviour in light of fracture mechanics 2.2 A review of fracture mechanics and quasibrittle models The advent of fracture...
... injected into patients with a variety of cancers [41,42] In our study, autologous DC vaccines were prepared withand without INF-α, and each pulsed with a different hTERT peptide, and administered ... (6 with prostate cancer, with malignant melanoma, with breast cancer andwith lung cancer) were enrolled into the 1st phase of the study (A), which was to compare DCT with DCTI The 2nd phase of ... DCTs and DCTIs have an optimal antigen uptake capacity and upregulation of CD86, CD40 and class I, but low levels of CD83, as is expected of non-terminally mature DCs The phenotypic profile of...
... benefit with XELOX or FOLFOX chemotherapy With this standard, only 23 patients had positive expression, with out of 62 clinical benefit cases (CR+PR+SD) from chemotherapy and 16 out of 18 PD ... oxaliplatin sensitivity of gastric cancer cell lines and the significance of that in predicting treatment response and survival of metastatic gastric cancer patients treated with oxaliplatin-based ... at Cancer Center of Sun Yat-Sen University The study was undertaken in accordance with the ethical standards of the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki Follow-up and evaluations...
... basic, and advanced locomotor skills of the lower limb amputee with the prosthesis and assesses level of independence" [13] The LCI has demonstrated good validity and reliability in adults with ... purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:44 Hässleholm-Kristianstad also included date of amputation andof receiving the prosthesis One hundred and fifty five amputees fulfilled the inclusion ... highest mean scores (2.9 and 2.7 respectively) and the worst scores were registered for advanced items and "getting up and down a stair without a handrail", both scoring a mean of 1.2 (Table 2) The...
... those who work with lead [11] In the present study, the patient was unaware of the ill effects of lead and was handling lead without taking any precautions; he worked without the use of personal ... of chelation therapy, he showed some signs of improvement He responded with an improvement in Hb to 13.2 g/dl This was accompanied by significant improvement in wrist drop, shaking of hands and ... clothes and no separate areas were provided for the removal and storage of the lead-contaminated protective work clothing and equipment The regulatory body should make it mandatory to evaluate and...
... Şen and Bayramov Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:113 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/113 Page of y (π ) + λy(π ) = 0, (3) and transmission ... s= √ (9) λ, λ > Şen and Bayramov Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:113 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/113 Page of s Proof To prove this, it ... n2 + δn, we have Şen and Bayramov Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:113 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/113 Page ofand finally sn = 2np1...
... 2.5 where functions f n and e n are bounded and continuous defined on Z with f L > and < eL ≤ eM < The following Lemma 2.2 is a direct corollary of Theorem 6.2 of L Wang and M Q Wang 24, page 125 ... 2.6 where functions f n and e n are bounded and continuous defined on Z with f L > 0, < eL ≤ eM < and ω n ≥ The following Lemma 2.3 is a direct corollary of Lemma of Xu and Teng 25 Lemma 2.3 Let ... rates Of practical interest in ecosystem is the question of whether an ecosystem can withstand those unpredictable forces which persist for a finite period of time or not In the language of control...
... model (1) We estimated the initial value of parameters A, k and m as 3.9, 0.5 and 0.3, and 17, 0.9 and 0.7, and 3.0, 0.7 and 0.5 for D, H and V, respectively, and used the Gauss-Newton iterative method ... natural stands in northern Idaho within the same seed transfer zone as the planting site, were sown at seeds/cell with a vacuum seeder and covered with about 0.6 cm of Target Forestry Sand® on ... and 512 g of each of three controlledrelease fertilizers were first fully mixed with a 0.014 m3 of the 50/50 percent peat-vermiculite growing media Container cells were then hand filledwith the...
... conception and design of the project and in the analysis and interpretation of data and contributed substantially to the drafting of the manuscript VFP participated in the acquisition, analysis, and ... doses, is associated with increased prevalence of two of the components of the metabolic syndrome (high TG and hypertension), but not any of the other components (low HDL, obesity, and glucose intolerance) ... associated with increased cardiovascular risk and is one of the components of the metabolic syndrome GC use has been shown to redistribute body fat and result in central obesity with relative sparing of...
... collected and the production of IFN-γ, IL-4 and IL-10 were determined by ELISA (a) Production of IFN-γ without stimulation (b) Production of IFN-γ with ICOS co-stimulation (c) The production of IL-4 and ... ICOS expression Percentages of ICOS+ cells (panels c and d) and MFIs of ICOS+ cells (panels e and f) are shown CD4+CD45RO+ (panels c and e) and CD8+CD45RO+ (panels d and f) peripheral blood T cells ... patients with active SLE (n = 14), co-stimulation patients with inactive SLE (n = 16), and normal control individuals (n = 14) were cultured for 72 hours with or without stimulation and pulsed with...
... total glandular area and the individual size of each focus Subsequently, focus score (FS; number of foci of 50 or more mononuclear cells/mm2 glandular tissue) and ratio index (RI; area of inflammation/area ... computation of a correlation network, representing associations of biomarkers with relevant clinical features of SS in nondiabetic NOD mice, both systemically and locally Materials and methods Animals and ... respectively Thirty-six and 54 of the biomarkers have not yet been analyzed in serum and saliva obtained from patients with SS, and neither have 70 of the analytes in serum and 62 biomarkers in...
... conception and design of the project and in the analysis and interpretation of data and contributed substantially to the drafting of the manuscript VFP participated in the acquisition, analysis, and ... doses, is associated with increased prevalence of two of the components of the metabolic syndrome (high TG and hypertension), but not any of the other components (low HDL, obesity, and glucose intolerance) ... associated with increased cardiovascular risk and is one of the components of the metabolic syndrome GC use has been shown to redistribute body fat and result in central obesity with relative sparing of...
... the complexity of the concept of stigma and thus differences in measuring it It has been demonstrated that some dimensions of stigma connected with mental illness were associated with potential ... cross-sectional study and cannot be taken as providing evidence of causal relationship between the attitude items and scales and professional help-seeking People’s experiences of health care services ... those with depression, more active use of services is connected with realistic views on the effects of antidepressants and fewer discriminative social intentions Interaction between the severity of...
... patient was treated with four cycles of chemotherapy A further CT scan of the abdomen was performed at the end of the treatment and then again in June 2007; a second PET/CT study with FDG was performed ... the literature and final proofreading of the manuscript AS was involved in collecting Figure FDG-PET/CT transaxial views of the left iliac lymph node FDG-PET/CT transaxial views of the left iliac ... combination of both anatomical and biological co-registered images acquired in the same session, with a dual gain in diagnostic accuracy Staging is crucial in the identification of the appropriate...
... interpretation of data and to the drafting of the manuscript XM and EV-P contributed equally to this study DO contributed to the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and to the drafting of the ... collection of data, performed analysis and interpretation of data, and drafted the manuscript EV-P conceived the study, performed the collection of data, and contributed to the analysis and interpretation ... well-known benefit of NIMV in different populations of immunosuppressed patients with other causes of respiratory failure [20,21] The retrospective nature of our study, with no standardized modality...