Moisture damage of asphalt mixtures is a major distress affecting the durability pavements. The loaded wheel tracking (LWT) test gaining popularity in determining moisture because its ability to relate laboratory performance field performance. However, accuracy LWT’s “pass/fail” criteria for screening limited. objective this study was evaluate capability LWT identify susceptibility with differe...

We report on the final results of a series of experiments on double decay of Te carried out with an array of twenty cryogenic detectors. The set-up is made with crystals of TeO2 with a total mass of 6.8 kg, the largest operating one for a cryogenic experiment. Four crystals are made with isotopically enriched materials: two in Te and two others in Te . The remaining ones are made with natural t...

Three moving bed biofilm reactors were used to treat synthesized wastewater of aromatic amine compounds including aniline, para-diaminobenzene and para-aminophenol that are found in many industrial wastewaters. The reactors with cylindrical shape had an internal diameter and an effective depth of 10 and 60 cm, respectively. The reactors were filled with light expanded clay aggregate as carriers...

3000 3500 4000 1 2 3 4 5 6 time (sec) hosts false sharing version without run-time optimizations false sharing version with run-time optimizations no false sharing version Figure 19: Traveling Salesman Problem of 15 cities in \Bare" millipede. Two similar versions are executed. When using millipede runtime optimizations, the false-sharing version and the non false-sharing version performed the ...

A novel method for the characterization of polymers by laser desorption/ionization on the layer of graphene nanoparticles coupled with time-of-flight mass spectrometry was demonstrated. Various polymers including polypropylene glycol, polystyrene and polymethyl methacrylate with average molecular weights from 425 to 3500 Da were analyzed.

Each year, almost 3500 children are diagnosed with leukemia, representing approximately 30% of pediatric cancer cases. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common form of pediatric leukemia, accounting for approximately 80% of cases. A significant number of children fail to respond to existing chemotherapies or are unable to maintain remission. Their prognosis is poor, with little hope for ...

From the Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Edited version of a video transcript of internal medicine grand rounds, presented at Baylor University Medical Center on April 28, 1998. Corresponding author: John S. Fordtran, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, 3500 Gaston Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75246. 184

Membrane-bound luminal carbonic anhydrase (CA) IV, by catalyzing the dehydration of carbonic acid into CO2 plus water, facilitates H+ secretion in the renal outer medullary collecting duct from the inner stripe (OMCDi). To examine the role of CA IV on H+ secretion, we measured net HCO3- transport in perfused OMCDi segments and examined the effect on transport of two extracellular CA inhibitors,...

Halosauropsis macrochir ranked amongst the most abundant and widespread demersal fishes on the mid-Atlantic Ridge of the North Atlantic (Iceland-Azores) with greatest abundance at 1700-3500 m. All sizes, ranging from 10-76 cm total length, occurred in the area without any apparent spatial pattern or depth trend. Using otolith sections displaying growth increments assumed to represent annuli, th...