During a bridge service life, many factors can cause damage accumulation such as overloaded traffic, fatigue effect, and so on. Hence, the identification of potential damages has been received wide attention to prevent such sudden fatal accident. An experiment of a continuous rigid frame concrete bridge, which had 3 spans and a total length of 18 meters, was presented in this paper. Two load st...

OBJECTIVE Atherosclerosis encompasses a conspicuously maladaptive inflammatory response that might involve innate immunity. Here, we compared the role of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) with that of TLR2 in intimal foam cell accumulation and inflammation in apolipoprotein E (ApoE) knockout (KO) mice in vivo and determined potential mechanisms of upstream activation and downstream action. METHODS ...

Abstract In the first part of this paper, we prove extensibility an arbitrary boundary metric to a positive scalar curvature (PSC) inside for compact manifold with boundary, completely solving open problem due Gromov (see Question 1.1). Then introduce fill-in invariant Definition 1.2) and discuss its relationship mass theorems asymptotically flat (AF) hyperbolic (AH) manifolds. Moreover, that t...

We derive a special formula for the total mean curvature of an ovaloid. This allows us to extend notion class boundaries strictly convex sets. Moreover, integral is proved.

Previous work on radius of gyration and average crossing number has demonstrated that polymers with fixed topology show a different scaling behavior with respect to these characteristics than polymers with unrestricted topology. Using numerical simulations, we show here that the difference in the scaling behavior between polymers with restricted and unrestricted topology also applies to the tot...