This study aims to characterise fatigue cracking of two types waste-derived (bio-oil and LDPE) bitumen. Modified Paris’ law Griffith criterion were proposed investigate crack propagation initiation the Results show that bio-oil delays LDPE accelerates initiation, bitumen itself dominates unaged The did not take effects in altering bitumen’s performance after pressure ageing vessel (PAV) ageing....

Previous studies reporting that statin increases coronary artery calcium (CAC) were conducted exclusively on patients with statin as a prevention, regardless of the presence or absence of dyslipidemia. The impact of sex on CAC has not been fully evaluated. We aimed to determine the association of dyslipidemia and sex with CAC using 320-row multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT).Of the 356 co...

The data show respiratory variables in 108 critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure placed on proportional assist ventilation with load adjustable gain factors (PAV+) after at least 36 h on passive mechanical ventilation. PAV+ was continued for 48 h until the patients met pre-defined criteria either for switching to controlled modes or for breathing without ventilator assistance. ...

To design more effective tissue-engineered heart valve replacements, the replacement tissue may need to mimic the biaxial stress-strain behavior of native heart valve tissue. This study characterized the planar biaxial properties of tissue-engineered valve leaflets and native aortic valve leaflets. Fibrin-based valve equivalent (VE) and porcine aortic valve (PAV) leaflets were subjected to incr...

Recently updated phase III trials revealed the favorable effect of add-on procarbazine-lomustine-vincristine chemotherapy (CT) to radiotherapy (RT) in treating anaplastic oligodendrogliomas with 1p19q codeletion (codel). However, the underlying rationality of deferring RT and upfront CT administration for these tumors is yet to be elucidated. Here, we retrospectively analyzed the long-term outc...

A novel delivery method is described that incorporates taste stimuli into edible strips for determining n-propylthiouracil (PROP) taster status. Edible strips that contained 400 or 600 nanomoles of PROP were prepared for psychophysical studies. Using these strips, we measured taste intensity, taste hedonics, and taste quality responses in a sample of healthy volunteers (n = 118). Participants w...

Tritium extraction is one of the key open issues toward development WCLL BB (Water-Cooled Lithium–Lead Breeding Blanket) EU DEMO reactors, and different technologies have been proposed to address it. Among them, Permeator Against Vacuum (PAV) has promising features, but it never tested in a relevant environment. This work presents first experimental results ever obtained for PAV mock-up. The ex...

The possibility of using industrial and poultry wastes as an ameliorant/fertilizer for erosion-prone soils was investigated. We studied the impact phosphogypsum (PG) turkey litter (TL) application on physicochemical properties weakly eroded agrochernozem in conditions a 5-year field experiment South Ural region, Russia. In particular, we examined effect treatments soil moisture reserves, struct...

Kernel row number (KRN) is an important component of yield during the domestication and improvement of maize and controlled by quantitative trait loci (QTL). Here, we fine-mapped a major KRN QTL, KRN4, which can enhance grain productivity by increasing KRN per ear. We found that a ~3-Kb intergenic region about 60 Kb downstream from the SBP-box gene Unbranched3 (UB3) was responsible for quantita...