THE U.S. GOVERNMENT is a larger customer of IoT products than you may realize. Veterans Affairs, for example, buys connected IV pumps its hospitals, while the Environmental Protection Agency water sensors to measure pollution.

Fibre-reinforced concrete (FRC) has been increasingly used in construction for several decades to reduce crack growth by incorporating one or two types of fibre reinforced elements under the static load. This paper intends investigate experimentally how hybrid systems (micro and macro polypropylene fibres steel fibres) can enhance performance RC beams subjected loading restricting development m...

Algae-based wastewater treatment is a promising technology with various applications for excess biomass such as biofertilizer production or valuable elements extraction. The benefits of the have been discussed larger plants (WWTPs), but use microalgae in decentralized has barely reported. current study screens possible resource recovery potential onsite technology, which adds algae-based post-t...

cAMP regulates integrin-dependent adhesions of vascular endothelial cells (VECs) to extracellular matrix proteins, their vascular endothelial cadherin-dependent intercellular adhesions, and their proliferation and migration in response to growth and chemotactic factors. Previously, we reported that cAMP-elevating agents differentially inhibited migration of human VECs isolated from large vascul...

How abortion is dealt with in law and policy is shaped through the multiple political and societal discourses on the issue within a particular society. Debate on abortion is constantly in flux, with progressive and regressive movements witnessed globally. This paper examines the translation of human rights norms into discourses on abortion in Northern Ireland, a region where abortion is highly ...

Granular anisotropy is attributable to many complex behaviors of granular materials and reflects important microstructures at the grain scale, and should be fully considered towards the development of realistic constitutive models for such materials. In this paper, we present a study on the behavior of anisotropy using a three-dimensional Discrete Element Method (DEM). Isotropic packings of san...