One of the important factors of cracks on the asphalt pavements is bitumen aging that associated with the loss of volatile components and oxidation of asphalt binder. This paper is about effect of Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene (SBS) polymer on asphalt aging In order to decrease asphalt aging effects. For this purpose samples of base bitumen and SBS modified bitumen aged according to the rolling thi...

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is a malabsorptive condition resulting most commonly from extensive intestinal resection. It is associated with significant morbidity and mortality, a reduced quality of life and high health care costs. The management of patients with SBS is complex and requires a multidisciplinary approach including dietary, fluid and pharmacological management, co-morbid disease man...

A new approach to the transient pulse compression by stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is presented. The theoretical analysis involving the time-dependent SBS gain in explicit form leads to a nonlinear system of partial differential equations, solved numerically by a generalization of the split-step method. It is shown theoretically and confirmed experimentally that the phonon lifetime is n...

Service-based Systems (SBS) have the advantage of composing distributed systems from various services provided by multiple providers transparently. In addition to functional correctness, multiple non-functional QoS requirements should also be satisfied in such systems. Among these QoS requirements, security protection and real-time performance are the two major concerns. However, neither applic...

We propose a novel application of sBs in embedded optical fibers as a building block for the implementation of optical neural net based on smart structures. By employing well established technology in fiber embedding in structures, and exploiting the ability of sBs as a highly versatile ambient sensor, and its nonlinear optical property of energy addition and subtraction to perform optical arit...

This paper presents a new data structure, Slice-based Binary Shell (SBS), for efficient manipulation and rendering of binary volume data. Since SBS stores only surface voxels with selected attributes of the voxels in a slice-based data structure that allows direct access to the voxels, it shows high storage and computational efficiency. This efficiency becomes more prominent when representing m...

(1) The activity of the endogenously active salivary burster neurones (SBs) shows temperature acclimation and has characteristic cold and warm blockade temperatures. (2) Temperature acclimation affects the upper and lower limits of the temperature range over which SBs are active. The absolute range, in centigrade degrees, during warming, is unaffected by acclimation. (3) Acclimatization of burs...

Under weak conditions of smoothness and mixing, we propose splinebackfitted spline (SBS) estimators of the component functions for nonlinear additive autoregression model. The proposed SBS estimator is both computationally expedient for analyzing high dimensional large time series data since it can circumvent the curse of dimensionality, and theoretically reliable as the estimator is oracally e...

This article offers a critical assessment of the “survivor bonds” (SBs) proposal recently put forward by Blake and Burrows, which calls for the government to issue bonds whose coupon payments are contingent on the proportions of retirees surviving to particular ages. It suggests that the proposal has considerable merit and discusses the circumstances in which SBs would be useful riskmanagement ...

Sharp and highly-selective tunable optical band-pass filters, based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) amplification in standard fibers, are described and demonstrated. Polarization pulling of the SBS-amplified signal wave is used to increase the selectivity of the filters to 30 dB. Pump broadening via synthesized direct modulation was used to provide a tunable, sharp and uniform amplific...