Insulin hormone is an important part of the endocrine system. It contains two polypeptide chains and plays a pivotal role in regulating carbohydrate metabolism. Insulin receptors (IR) located on cell surface interacts with insulin to control the intake of glucose. Although several studies have tried to clarify the interaction between insulin and its receptor, the mechanism of this interaction r...

Bridges are one the most important and useful river structure and as a key of Communication ways are very significant. Local Scouring is one the most reason of Instability of bridges and finally its failure annually immense human and financial cost to the government imposes. So far, several studies on ways to control and reduce scouring around piers of the bridges has been done among them, the ...

Infrared thermography is a modern measuring method for the examination of redeveloped and non-renovated buildings. Infrared cameras provide a means for temperature measurement in building constructions from the inside as well as from the outside. Thus heat bridges can be detected. It has been shown that infrared thermography is also applicable for finding the exact position of heating tubes or ...

2014 The critical magnetic behaviour of simple superconducting micro-networks is illustrated by discussing several two-loop systems in the form of Wheatstone bridges. Using the formalism of de Gennes and Alexander it is shown how phase boundaries are obtained. These show undulating behaviour for sufficiently symmetric loop systems, analogous to that of a simple loop. A physical interpretation i...

This paper introduces a new project, InfraWatch, that demonstrates the many challenges that a large complex data analysis application has to offer in terms of data capture, management, analysis and reporting. The project is concerned with the intelligent monitoring and analysis of large infrastructural projects in the public domain, such as public roads, highways, tunnels and bridges. As a demo...

bridges, as an essential part of transportation system, play a special role in economy, politic and military all around the world. serviceability of bridges is of high importance especially in emergencies, helping injured people and proportioning transportation after earthquakes. earthquake regulation codes, normally suggest linear methods to conduct the analysis, and nonlinear analysis is bare...

this paper presents the application of three main artificial neural networks (anns) in damage detection of steel bridges. this method has the ability to indicate damage in structural elements due to a localized change of stiffness called damage zone. the changes in structural response is used to identify the states of structural damage. to circumvent the difficulty arising from the non-linear n...