Two opposing selective pressures have shaped the evolution of the structure of the blood-gas barrier in air breathing vertebrates. The first pressure, which has been recognized for 100 years, is to facilitate diffusive gas exchange. This requires the barrier to be extremely thin and have a large area. The second pressure, which has only recently been appreciated, is to maintain the mechanical i...

Poly(l-lactide) (PLLA) is the structural material of the first clinically approved bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS), a promising alternative to permanent metal stents for treatment of coronary heart disease. BVSs are transient implants that support the occluded artery for 6 mo and are completely resorbed in 2 y. Clinical trials of BVSs report restoration of arterial vasomotion and eliminat...

In this paper, a design procedure for mono-anchor head anchoring 2360 MPa high-strength steel strand is proposed. The performance criteria of the existing anchor based on PTI (Post-Tensioning Institute) have been reorganized so that they can be evaluated plastic hoop strain appearing at top wedge hole. order to does not exceed permissible standard, stress and deformation mechanisms were investi...

Lexical information can bias categorization of an ambiguous phoneme and subsequently evoke a shift in the phonetic boundary. Here, we explored the extent to which this phenomenon is perceptual in nature. Listeners were asked to ignore auditory stimuli presented in a typical oddball sequence in which the standard was an ambiguous sound halfway between /t/ and /p/ embedded in a Dutch word normall...

The complications of impaction bone grafting in revision hip replacement includes fracture of the femur and subsidence of the prosthesis. In this in vitro study we aimed to investigate whether the use of vibration, combined with a perforated tamp during the compaction of morsellised allograft would reduce peak loads and hoop strains in the femur as a surrogate marker of the risk of fracture and...

In this paper, our aim was making a metric space on hoop algebras, because of that, we introduced the notion valuation maps from F-quasi-valuation map based hoops and related properties them are investigated. By using these notions, quasi-metric space. The continuity operations is studied with topology induced by quasi-valuation. Also, homomorphism investigated that under which condition an map...

in this paper, two api x70 steel pipes (with spiral seam weld) of 56 inch outside diameter and 0.780 inch wall thickness were girth welded first. next, hole drilling tests were conducted for strain measurement on the surfaces of the pipes. the values of residual stresses on the internal and external surfaces of the pipe were determined, from strain data using astm 837 standard. the experimental...

In this study, 11 PSRPC column specimens were designed and fabricated in order to investigate the stressing performance of incompletely prefabricated steel reactive powder concrete (PSRPC) columns subjected static loading tests. The effects strength grade content (RPC) on axial compression eccentricity investigated. test results show that external RPC, internal section cast-in-place RPC work we...