Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) has been widely used in pavement. However, the fatigue performance of hot-mix (HMA) with RAP is a critical factor to ensure durability. In this study, tests using an Overlay Tester (OT) were conducted novel load-controlled mode. contents 0, 25% and 50%, respectively. cyclic loading, life energy parameters measured. Results indicated that decreased both fracture ...

The Jakobsson hybrid Mix-net proposed by Jakobsson and Juels, is a very practical and efficient scheme for long input messages. But this hybrid Mix-net does not have public verifiable property. In this paper a new attack to the Jakobsson hybrid Mix-net is introduced. This attack breaks the robustness of the hybrid Mix-net scheme, given that the corrupted first mix server and one of the senders ...

1. Phosphorylate oligonucleotide probe: a. Oligonucleotide primer (5 – 7 pmoles or 60 ng) 1 μL b. dH2O 6.5 μL c. 10X kinase buffer 1.5 μL d. T4 PNK (~10 U) 1 μL e. [γ-P]ATP (7000 Ci/mmole) 2 μL 2. Stop the kinase reaction by adding 500 μL of TE (pH 7.6) 3. Add 25 μg of carrier RNA. 4. Phenol/Chloroform extract 2X 5. Ethanol precipitate with sodium acetate (pH 5.2) 6. Wash with 70% ethanol and r...

The paper presents the results of casting and testing of 264 GFRC specimens. The glass fibers were 25 mm long, with the aspect ratio (L/D) ranging between 1250 and 3570. The parameters studied were the ratio (by weight) of fibers to cement, i.e. F/C=0%, 1.5%, 3%, and 4.5%, and the ratio of coarse to fine aggregates (gravel to sand), i.e. G/S=1.1, 0.7 and 0.2. In total, 12 mix designs were selec...

In furtherance of the quest for green renewable and sustainable energy, an effort was made in this laboratory study to generate harvest electric power from hot-mix asphalt (HMA); a viscoelastic material that is widely used road construction. The underlying hypothesis mechanical vibrations strain energy induced by vehicle loading on (pavement) can be harnessed converted into usable embedding pie...

This paper examines the environmental-economic cycle for nitrogen in Denmark based on nitrogen input and output from different economic sectors. An input-output model is employed together with a nitrogen mass balance to apportion total nitrogen loading by final demand and estimate export and import of nitrogen from foreign trade. The changes in agricultural and industrial nitrogen loading from ...

In this work we have used melt-processing to mix liquid-exfoliated boron-nitride nanosheets with PET to produce composites for gas barrier applications. Sonication of h-BN powder, followed by centrifugation-based size-selection, was used to prepare suspensions of nanosheets with aspect ratio >1000. The solvent was removed to give a weakly aggregated powder which could easily be mixed into PET, ...

this research was conducted in order to evaluate fatigue behavior of asphalt mixes containing electric arc furnace (eaf) steel slag. after initial evaluation of the properties of eaf steel slag using x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning electric microscope (sem), six sets of laboratory mixtures were prepared. each set were treated replacing various portions of limestone aggregates of the mix wi...

The web of the black widow is apparently a random spatial arrangement of threads, whichprovides its occupant with housing, means to capture prey and protection. However toensure that these functions are fulfilled, the spider has evolved to adapt the architecture ofthe web so that it would be able to adequately respond to the outer environment and toproperly transmit the stresses...

The paper presents the results of casting and testing of 264 GFRC specimens. The glass fibers were 25 mm long, with the aspect ratio (L/D) ranging between 1250 and 3570. The parameters studied were the ratio (by weight) of fibers to cement, i.e. F/C=0%, 1.5%, 3%, and 4.5%, and the ratio of coarse to fine aggregates (gravel to sand), i.e. G/S=1.1, 0.7 and 0.2. In total, 12 mix designs were selec...