BACKGROUND Skin autofluorescence, a biomarker for advanced glycation end products (AGEs) accumulation, has been shown to predict diabetes-related cardiovascular complications and is associated with several environmental and lifestyle factors. In the present study, we examined the association between various smoking behaviors and skin autofluorescence, as well as the association between several ...

The purpose of this research is to examine how cost-benefit analysis (CBA) can be utilized to evaluate the attractiveness of mitigation for lifeline systems subject to earthquake ground motion. We propose a framework for the CBA that can be used in conjunction with work being completed by other researchers at MCEER (Shinozuka et al., 2000; Chang et al., 2000). With their development of fragilit...

BACKGROUND Respiratory symptoms are associated with accelerated lung function decline, and increased hospitalization and mortality rates in the general population. Although several environmental risk factors for respiratory symptoms are known, knowledge on genetic risk factors is lacking. We aim to identify genetic variants associated with respiratory symptoms by genome-wide association (GWA) a...

The biotechnological production of fine chemicals, proteins and pharmaceuticals is usually hampered by loss microbial performance during scale-up. This challenge mainly caused discrepancies between homogeneous environmental conditions at laboratory scale, where bioprocesses are optimized, inhomogeneous in large-scale bioreactors, takes place. Therefore, to improve strain selection process devel...

This document provides an assessment of the current state of advanced airborne and spaceborne remote sensing and ground-based technologies applicable to the analysis of seismic risk and vulnerability of buildings and lifeline systems. Continuous Global Positioning System (GPS) ground deformation monitoring and seismological networks provide critical measurements for understanding the earthquake...

This paper proposes using the rich visual “language” of Hägerstrand’s time geography to represent time-space relationships in sport, in particular within the spatial and temporal constraints of a game of rugby. Despite being applied outside of its traditional social context it is argued that time geography’s ability to model movements and relationships at the individual level makes it (and its ...