Prefabricated engineered solid wood panel construction systems can sequester and store CO2. Modular cross-laminated timber (CLT, also called cross-lam) panels form the basis of low-carbon, engineered construction systems using solid wood panels that can be used to build residential infill developments of 10 storeys or higher. Multi-apartment buildings of 4 to 10 storeys constructed entirely in ...

Purpose Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of vision loss. Previous studies have shown signaling pathways mediated by Stat3 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 3) play a primary role in diabetic retinopathy progression. This study tested CLT-005, a small molecule inhibitor of Stat3, for its dose-dependent therapeutic effects on vision loss in a rat model of diabetic retinopat...

l.INTRODUCTION AND RESULTS In recent papers Bezandry and Fernique (1990,1992), Fernique (1993) have given new convergence and tightness criteria for random processes whose sample paths are right-continuous and have leftlimits. These criteria have been applied by Bezandry and Fernique, Bloznelis and Paulauskas to prove the central limit theorem (CLT) in the Skorohod space D[0, 1]. In this paper,...

In many real-world situations, different and often opposite opinions, innovations, or products are competing with one another for their social influence in a networked society. In this paper, we study competitive influence propagation in social networks under the competitive linear threshold (CLT) model, an extension to the classic linear threshold model. Under the CLT model, we focus on the pr...

We study the relationship between chaotic behavior and the violation of the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) in the Kuramoto model. We calculate sums of angles at equidistant times along deterministic trajectories of single oscillators and we show that, when chaos is sufficiently strong , the Pdfs of the sums tend to a Gaussian, consistently with the standard CLT. On the other hand, when the system ...

We considerN single server infinite buffer queues with service rate β. Customers arrive at rate Nα, choose L queues uniformly, and join the shortest. We study the processes t ∈ R+ 7→ R t = (R t (k))k∈N for large N , where R t (k) is the fraction of queues of length at least k at time t. Laws of large numbers (LLNs) are known, see Vvedenskaya et al. [15], Mitzenmacher [12] and Graham [5]. We con...

BACKGROUND ABO-incompatible live transplantation (ILT) is not occasionally performed due to a relative high risk of graft failure. Knowledge of both graft and patient survival rate after ILT is essential for donor selection and therapeutic strategy. We systematically reviewed studies containing outcomes after ILT compared to that after ABO-compatible liver transplantation (CLT). METHODOLOGY/P...

beta thalassemia (beta thal) in DBA/2J mice is a consequence of the spontaneous and complete deletion of the beta major globin gene. Homozygous beta thal mice have clinical and biological features similar to those observed in human beta thal intermedia. Erythrocytes in human beta thal are characterized by a relative cell dehydration and reduced K+ content. The role of this erythrocyte dehydrati...

We considerN single server infinite buffer queues with service rate β. Customers arrive at rateNα, choose L queues uniformly, and join the shortest. We study the processes t ∈ R+ 7→ R t = (R t (k))k∈N for large N , where R t (k) is the fraction of queues of length at least k at time t. Laws of large numbers (LLNs) are known, see Vvedenskaya et al. [15], Mitzenmacher [12] and Graham [5]. We cons...

Communicative language teaching (CLT) is promoted in teacher education programmes around the world, although the appropriateness of this methodology in contexts outside the English-speaking West has been questioned, often from a theoretical perspective. In fact, very little empirical research has been conducted into the practical knowledge of CLT of non-native speaker teachers of English, and t...