The technology of road construction is subjected to changes to cope up with changing vehicular pattern, construction materials and sub grade condition. Majority of the pavement failures could be attributed to the presence of poor sub grade conditions and expansive sub grade is one such problematic situation. Marine soils, because of the specific physico-chemical makeup are subjected to volume c...

Tocolytic therapy with beta-adrenergic receptor agonists is a standard regimen to prevent preterm birth. Agonists exposure of beta-adrenergic receptors causes receptor desensitization in other organs, and this may limit the therapeutic value of beta-adrenergic receptor agonists. To study the effects of prolonged beta-adrenergic agonist treatment in human myometrium, we obtained biopsies during ...

would you be inclined to try to prove these by counting arguments? Probably not. We confess that there was a time that when we saw alternating sum identities like the ones above, we would attack it with noncombinatorial proof techniques, like induction or generating functions. After all, how can an object be added a negative number of times? Perhaps it can be tackled using the Principle of Incl...

BACKGROUND Altered dosage of the transcription factor PAX6 causes multiple human eye pathophysiologies. PAX6⁺/⁻ heterozygotes suffer from aniridia and aniridia-related keratopathy (ARK), a corneal deterioration that probably involves a limbal epithelial stem cell (LESC) deficiency. Heterozygous Pax6(+/Sey-Neu) (Pax6⁺/⁻) mice recapitulate the human disease and are a good model of ARK. Corneal pa...

Aims. We present a new radiation hydrodynamics code, called "ARK-RT" which uses two-moment model with the M1 closure relation for radiative transfer. This code aims at being ready high-performance computing, on exascale architectures. Methods. The is solved using finite volume scheme. scheme asymptotic preserving to capture accurately both optically thick and thin regimes. also propose well-bal...

© The National Medical Journal of India 2010 INTRODUCTION Several French travellers visited India during the seventeenth century and wrote valuable accounts in the form of memoirs, dairies, personal letters, notes, official papers and reports of their missions based on their observations and experiences. François Bernier (Fig. 1), a renowned European physician, visited India in the seventeenth ...

Grapevine crown gall (GCG), which is caused by tumorigenic Allorhizobium vitis (=Rhizobium vitis), the most important bacterial disease in grapevine, and its economic impact on grapevine very high. When young vines develop GCG, they often die, whereas older may show stress poor growth depending severity of because GCG interferes with vascular system trunk prevents nutrient flow, leading to infe...

Leprechaunism and type A diabetes represent inborn errors of insulin resistance whose phenotypes suggested causation by mutations in the insulin receptor gene. Cells cultured from patients with leprechaunism specifically lacked high-affinity insulin binding. Partial but different degrees of impairment were observed in cells cultured from first-degree relatives. Different mutations in the insuli...