Context: Recognition of the importance of informatics to the practice of pathology has surged. Training residents in pathology informatics has been a daunting task for most residency programs in the United States because faculty often lacks experience and training resources. Nevertheless, developing resident competence in informatics is essential for the future of pathology as a specialty. Obje...

Acoustic Daylight is a new technique for creating pictorial images of undersea objects from the acoustic illumination provided by the ambient noise field. As in conventional photography, the directionality of the illumination affects the contrast in the image through the shadows that are cast. Three aspects of the directionality, or anisotropy, of ambient noise in the ocean are discussed in thi...

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The evolution of bridge pier scour is very important for bridge safety warning and assessment. During typhoon seasons in Taiwan, the torrential river flow often causes scour monitoring instruments to fail in their attempt to measure the temporal variations of pier scour depths. To better understand the scouring phenomenon during a large flood event, this study proposes a fast and reliable metho...

DISCLAIMER This report was prepared as the result of work sponsored by the California Energy Commission. It does not necessarily represent the views of the Energy Commission, its employees or the State of California. The Energy Commission, the State of California, its employees, contractors and subcontractors make no warrant, express or implied, and assume no legal liability for the information...

2014 We present a theoretical analysis of high-frequency optical heterodyne saturation spectroscopy in Doppler-broadened coupled three-level systems. The saturating beam, which is assumed to be amplitude modulated at frequency 03B4 (double-sideband suppressed carrier amplitude modulation) is resonant for one of the transitions. Through non-degenerate four-wave mixing processes, this modulation ...

The database research community prides itself on scalable technologies. Yet database systems traditionally do not excel on one important scalability dimension: the degree of distribution. This limitation has hampered the impact of database technologies on massively distributed systems like the Internet. In this paper, we present the initial design of PIER, a massively distributed query engine b...

This paper presents the development and experimental validation of a multizard bridge pier concept, i.e., a bridge pier system capable of providing an adequate level of protection against collapse under seismic and blast loading but not acting simultaneously . A multicolumn pier-bent with concrete-filled steel tube CFST columns is the proposed concept, and the adequacy of this system is experim...

This study is devoted towards evaluating seismic performance of a three-span continuous highway bridge subjected to moderate to strong earthquake ground motions in its longitudinal direction. In this regard, nonlinear dynamic analysis of the bridge based on the direct time integration approach using the 4 order Runge-Kutta method is conducted. Two types of isolation bearings are used in the ana...

The prefabricated pier structure has the advantages of low energy consumption, high mechanized level, which meets green development trend construction industry, with broad application prospects. This paper analyzes process and principle top platform bearing pier, describes bearer structure, structural operation proposed a new type structure.