Maternal hypothyroidism during pregnancy impairs brain function in human and rat offspring, but little is known regarding the influence of maternal hyperthyroidism on neurodevelopment. We have previously shown that the expression of neuronal and glial differentiation markers in fetal brain is compromised in hypothyroid rat dam pregnancies and have now therefore extended this investigation to hy...

Lactation is an important function that is dependent on changes in the maternal homeostasis and sustained by histological maternal adjustments. We evaluated how offspring manipulations during the lactational phase can modulate maternal morphologic aspects in the mammary gland, adipose tissue, and pancreatic islets of lactating dams. Two different models of litter-manipulation-during-lactation w...

Woody debris flows (i.e., carrying wood) are common in mountainous and forested areas. They can cause more severe hazards due to the effects of LW (woody larger than 1 m length 10 cm width) compared without LW. Mitigation structures for have considered little regulating effect on influence regulation sediment. Thus, model tests were conducted discuss slit-check dams woody flow. Research results...

Introduction In the foreword to the Malaysian Guidelines for Operation, Maintenance and Surveillance of Dams (Malaysian Inter-Departmental Committee on Dam Safety 1989), it is stated “The expanding inventory of dams has brought into focus the subject of dam safety”. At the time of the guideline publication, there had been a considerable increase in the inventory of dams with those constructed d...

A survey conducted near a dam-site on the Paraguay-Argentine border showed the area to be highly endemic for Chagas’ disease. It also showed that new housing unsuited to the disease vector’s prol$eration did not eliminate the prob/em, indicating a strong need for health education capable of guiding people away from traditional behavior patterm tending to encourage the vector and cause infection.

Abstract This paper aims to find a proper admixture of the cemented sand-gravel (CSG) material for constructing hardfill embankment located in cold weather. To this end, compaction, strength, permeability mixtures with cement contents 5, 7.5, 10, and 12.5% are experimentally studied. Besides, freeze–thaw durability native grains soil stabilizing is examined. According test results, even though ...