Airports play a critical role in transporting goods and passengers supporting the growth of world economy. spend huge sums annually to maintain improve pavement functions by expanding runways, taxiways, aprons, perform routine maintenance rehabilitation existing pavements. Besides traditional direct costs, comprehensive airport management system should also consider indirect costs such as fuel,...

Battery-powered ships constitute a solution to the pathway zero-emission shipping. This article studies comparatively and assesses performance of battery-powered vessels implementing Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) Cost Assessment (LCCA). A case study fast catamaran ferry is employed assessed against respective conventional revealing advantages drawbacks these two alternative solutions. LCA LCCA take...

BACKGROUND In Western countries type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly from cardiovascular causes. Since a family history of diabetes, even in non-diabetic subjects, is regarded as an increased risk of coronary heart disease, the use of approved surrogate markers of early atherosclerosis, specially of ultrasonic measurements of the carotid a...

Mice deficient in apolipoprotein-E (apoE) experience severe hypercholesterolemia, are prone to atherosclerosis, and recently have emerged as a powerful tool in the study of plaque formation. In this study, we developed magnetic resonance (MR) imaging methods to detect the progression of atherosclerosis noninvasively in a mouse model of arterial injury. Four 14-week-old apoE-deficient mice were ...

Abstract Geotechnical engineering work contributes to the total environmental impact and monetary cost occurring from construction sector. Decisions made regarding geotechnical aspects have a profound effect on of structure during its life cycle. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Cost Analysis (LCCA) are established methods for assessing impacts works. This paper presents results literature review 56...

Life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) plays an essential role in the economic sustainability assessment of buildings, and building information modeling (BIM) offers a potentially valuable approach to fulfilling its requirement. However, state LCCA based on BIM is unclear despite previously published works. Therefore, this paper aims address gap by reviewing 45 relevant peer-reviewed articles through ...

Prostacyclin (PGI2) and the stable PGI2 analogue SC39902 (6,9 alpha-epoxy,5S-fluoro-11 alpha, 15S-dehydroxyprosta-6,13E-dien-1-oic acid, sodium salt) were studied in anesthetized open-chest dogs subjected to 90 minutes of left circumflex coronary artery (LCCA) occlusion and 6 hours of reperfusion. PGI2 (50 ng/kg/min, infused into the left atrium) reduced infarct mass by 59% compared to control,...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a dysfunction of heart rhythm and represents an increased predisposition to ischemic stroke in AF patients. It has been shown that the AF-induced hemodynamic conditions may contribute to the increased embolic propensity through the carotid arteries. We simulated a stroke-prevention device with a unique strut structure to deflect the trajectory of a blood clot to the ...