Abstract The built environment sector must significantly reduce carbon emissions throughout the design, construction, operation, maintenance, and end-of-life stages. As decarbonisation targets regulations are announced, construction professionals implement workflows that allow stakeholders to make prudent decisions. cost of is one such workflow needs be addressed so options can compared capital...

Inner cell masses (ICMs) were isolated from early blastocysts by immunosurgery and incubated in a dense suspension of melanin granules for 3 h after 21 h in culture. The majority of such labelled ICMs subsequently formed outgrowths in vitro in which either giant cells or small solitary cells contained melanin granules. However, a substantial minority produced outgrowths in which both types of c...

An Intelligent Condition Monitoring System (ICMS) is important for different types of vehicles used to perform unmanned tasks. The main function of the ICMS is to ensure that the unmanned vehicle is in robust condition. In this paper, three main sections are built in ICMS. That is, structure health monitoring, power management and speed detection. For the structure monitoring, the pressure dist...

The present study investigates the time course and pattern of movement representation recovery in the motor cortex during the recovery after a peripheral paralysis. To this end a transitory flaccid paralysis of the vibrissae muscle was induced in adult rats that underwent two unilateral injections of 8 U of botulinum toxin (BTX) into a vibrissal pad, at a duration of 12 days from one another. T...

PURPOSE How are motor maps modified within and in the immediate vicinity of a damaged zone in the motor cortex of non-human primates? METHODS In eight adult macaque monkeys subjected to a restricted chemical lesion of the hand area in the primary motor cortex (M1), motor maps were established using intracortical micro-stimulation (ICMS) techniques. The monkeys were subdivided into five animal...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of glycolic propolis (PRO) and ginger (GIN) extracts, calcium hydroxide (CH), chlorhexidine (CLX) gel and their combinations as ICMs (ICMs) against Candida albicans, Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli and endotoxins in root canals. MATERIAL AND METHODS After 28 days of contamination with microorganisms, the canals wer...

High-frequency, long-duration intracortical microstimulation (HFLD-ICMS) is increasingly being used to deduce how the brain encodes coordinated muscle activity and movement. However, the full movement repertoire that can be elicited from the forelimb representation of primary motor cortex (M1) using this method has not been systematically determined. Our goal was to acquire a comprehensive M1 f...