The primary objective of this research is to evaluate the feasibility of several WMA mixtures as potential asphalt paving mixtures for Nebraska pavements. To that end, three well-known WMA additives (i.e., Sasobit, Evotherm, and Advera synthetic zeolite) were evaluated. For a more realistic evaluation of the WMA approaches, trial pavement sections of the WMA mixtures and their HMA counterparts ...

This paper addresses the challenges of creating realistic models soil for simulations heavy vehicles on weak terrain. We modelled dense soils using discrete element method with variable parameters surface friction, normal cohesion, and rolling resistance. To find out what type can be represented, we measured internal friction bulk cohesion over 100 different virtual samples. test model, simulat...

OBJECTIVES To investigate changes in ulcer healing time and antibiotic treatment in Sweden following the introduction of the Registry of Ulcer Treatment (RUT), a national quality registry, in 2009. DESIGN A statistical analysis of RUT data concerning the healing time and antibiotic treatment for patients with hard-to-heal ulcers in Sweden between 2009 and 2012. SETTING RUT is a national web...

BACKGROUND To investigate the effectiveness of histological examination of ulcer margins (HEUM) in detecting Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection in patients with non-bleeding gastric ulcers (GUs). METHODS A retrospective study included 284 patients with GU undergoing concomitant HEUM and rapid urease test (RUT) to detect H. pylori infection between January 2005 and December 2006. The sl...

To test the hypothesis that the abundance of the apical urea transporter of the inner medullary collecting duct (IMCD) is regulated in vivo by factors associated with altered water balance, immunoblots of rat inner medullary membrane fractions were probed with rabbit polyclonal antibodies against the renal urea transporter (RUT) gene product. In inner medullas of Brattleboro rats, which manifes...

Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic metal that damages several tissues of animals and humans including the testis. The ameliorative effects quercetin (QUE), rutin (RUT), gallic acid (GAL) at 20 mg kg-1 body weight alone or in combination against testicular injury induced by Cd (24 weight) male Wistar rats were evaluated this study. Forty-two (42) randomly grouped into six (6) groups: (1) vehicle control gr...

A novel hybrid FRP-aluminum truss system has been employed in a two-rut modular bridge superstructure composed of twin inverted triangular trusses. The actual flexural behavior of a one-rut truss has been previously investigated under the on-axis loading test; however, the structural performance of the one-rut truss subjected to an off-axis load is still not fully understood. In this paper, a g...

Surface hot-in place recycling of asphalt mixtures has been conducted on Finnish roads for several years. The procedure is performed either in full-lane ('remix') or shorter widths ('rut-remix'). In a 2020–2021 project, different mixture types were subjected to both kinds recycling; reference mixtures, and modified with aramid fibres, FEP elastomer pellets, polymer, Storelastic rubber additive,...

Background and Aims: Helicobacter pylori (H. Pylori) is the microorganism that infects nearly half of word's population. There are several invasive and non-invasive methods for diagnosis of infection. The main objective of this study was to evaluate antigen of H. Pylori in feces with H. pylori stool antigen (HpSA) test and comparison with rapid urease test (RUT) in the patients suspected to be ...