The Bridges

The Bridges of the Future or the Future of Bridges?

Infrastructures are a key factor for economy. Among them, transportation infrastructures are vital for human life and economy. And within the transportation networks, bridges are key elements for connecting people anddelivering goods. For this reason, bridges have been built sincemany centuries ago, in some way, and the advances (and sometimes geographical expansions!!) of ancient cultures all ...

Building Bridges to the Cortex

Innervation of the neocortex by the thalamus is dependent on the precise coordination of spatial and temporal guidance cues. In this issue of Cell, work by López-Bendito et al.(2006) reveals that tangentially migrating cells within the ventral telencephalon are essential for axonal navigation between the thalamus and the neocortex, a process apparently mediated by Neuregulin-1/ErbB4 short- and ...

Covered Bridges

Psychiatric Bridges

A Little while ago Mrs. A., a housewife in ^rpington, went on a bus. Though it sounds the east remarkable thing in the world, it was a tr'Umph in its way?because Mrs. A. had for Months had a fear of leaving her own house, which dipped her with a panic hand if she as much as stepped across the threshold. Marooned in her semi-detached just as irrevocably, it seemed, as a castaway, Mrs. A. had rea...

World’s First Thermoplastic Bridges

Deterioration of bridges in the United States has been well recognized. According to the FHWA National Bridge Inventory, one third of nearly 600,000 U.S. highway bridges are classified as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. Since the majority of bridges were built using wood, steel or concrete, the same conventional materials have been used for bridge replacement or rehabilitation,...