background: nowadays, highly specific aptamers generated by cell selex technology (systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment) are being applied for early detection of cancer cells. prostate specific membrane antigen (psma), over expressed in prostate cancer, is a highly specific marker and therefore can be used for diagnosis of the prostate cancer cells. the aim of the present s...

The field of smart materials and structures has evolved in the last 10 years to the point of viability for commercial mass-production industries. A good example of this is the automotive industry where there has been a 600% increase in patent applications. While the fundamental science is present for many smart materials such as shape memory alloys or piezoelectrics, there have been only a few ...

For the safety of prestressed structures, prestress loss is a critical issue that will increase with structural damage, so it is necessary to investigate prestress loss of prestressed structures under different damage scenarios. Unfortunately, to date, no qualified techniques are available due to difficulty for sensors to survive in harsh construction environments of long service life and large...

Applying strong electric field on piezoelectric actuators, on one hand very significant electroelastic material nonlinear effects will occur, on the other hand piezo plates and shells may undergo large displacements and rotations. In order to give a precise prediction of piezolaminated smart structures under large electric field, this paper develops a finite element (FE) model accounting for bo...

The world is entering a new era, where Internet-of-Things (IoT), smart homes, and smart cities will play an important role in meeting the so-called big challenges. In the near future, it is foreseen that the majority of the world's population will live their lives in smart homes and in smart cities. To deal with these challenges, to support a sustainable urban development, and to improve the qu...

BACKGROUND The 5' untranslated regions of mRNA play an important role in their translation. RESULTS Here, we describe the development of four methods of profiling mRNA 5' ends using the Illumina sequencing platform; the first method utilizes SMART (Switching Mechanism At 5' end of RNA Transcript) technology, while the second involves replacing the 5' cap structure with RNA oligomers via ligat...

For existing infrastructures, corrosion and stresscorrosion are detrimental for reinforcing steels. The challenge of how efficiently we can protect steels against corrosion has been for a long time critical. However, knowing how advanced are corrosion protecting techniques used nowadays, is it still relevant to concentrate solely on protecting steel structures or should we focus mostly on struc...

Smart systems and smart materials Smart structures are a new emerging materials system which combines contemporary materials science with information science. The smart system is composed of sensing, processing, actuating, feedback, self-diagnosing and self-recovering subsystems. The system uses the functional properties of advanced materials to achieve high performances with capabilities of re...

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