Scour is by far the primary cause of bridge failures in the United States. Scour and other hydraulic effects are particularly threatening because the deterioration is often invisible , hidden beneath turbid water. Many scour monitoring methods attempt to measure the development of scour pockets themselves. However, this is difficult due to debris — both floating and submerged — and shifting str...

Recent advances in structural proteomics call for development of fast and reliable automatic methods for prediction of functional surfaces of proteins with known three-dimensional structure, including binding sites for known and unknown protein partners as well as oligomerization interfaces. Despite significant progress the problem is still far from being solved. Most existing methods rely, at ...

In this paper, a series of numerical experiments are carried out on the anti-scour device combined with perforated baffle and ring-wing plate. addition, optimal dimensions location obtained: The ratio is S = 20%, distance from center bridge pier L 2d (d diameter pier), plate located at H 1/3h (h water depth). To verify effect device, scour characteristics flow field further investigated. Compar...

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55-60 a-INTERFERON AS MAINTENANCE DRUG AFTER INITIAL FLUDARABINE THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA AND LOW-GRADE NON-HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA Pier Luigi Zinzani, Mario Giulio Levrero, Francesco Lauria, Damiano Rondelli, Francesco Zaja, Domenico Russo, Renato Fanin, Giulio De Rossi, Francesca Romana Mauro, Maurizio Bendandi, Alessandro Gozzetti, Ferdinando Dianzani, Franco Mandell...

THE CAUCHY DOUBLE ALTERNANT AND DIVIDED DIFFERENCES WENCHANG CHU Dedicated to my friend Pier Vittorio Ceccherini for his 65th birthday Abstract. As an extension of Cauchy’s double alternant, a general determinant evaluation formula is established. Several interesting determinant identities are derived as consequences by means of divided differences.

Lucio Biggiero (Università dell’ Aquila, Italy), Pier Paolo Angelini (Interuniversity Research Centre for Sustainable Development (CIRPS), Italy), Mario Basevi (Italian National Institute of Statistics, Italy), Nunzia Carbonara (Politecnico di Bari, Italy), Antonio Mastrogiorgio (Interuniversity Research Centre for Sustainable Development (CIRPS), Italy), Eliano Pessa (University of Pavia, Ital...

Alessandro Rambaldi, Manuela Lazzari, Cristina Manzoni, Emanuela Carlotti, Luca Arcaini, Michele Baccarani, Tiziano Barbui, Carlo Bernasconi, Giuseppe Dastoli, Giovanna Fuga, Enrica Gamba, Livio Gargantini, Valter Gattei, Francesco Lauria, Mario Lazzarino, Franco Mandelli, Enrica Morra, Alessandro Pulsoni, Michela Ribersani, Pier Luigi Rossi-Ferrini, Maurizio Rupolo, Sante Tura, Vittorina Zagon...

self-centering pier (scp) has been viewed as a remarkable accomplishment which is able to sustain major lateral loading with reduced structure damage in seismic engineering. stiffness deterioration observed in experiment is vital for the seismic performance of self-centering concrete pier. in this contribution, the associated stiffness deterioration with respect to the structural damage is mode...