The objective of this work was to examine the changes in the microstructure and macro physical properties caused by the carbonation of normalised CEM II mortar. Samples were prepared and subjected to accelerated carbonation at 20°C, 65% relative humidity and 20% CO2 concentration. On the microstructure scale, the evolutions of the cumulative pore volume, pore size distribution, and specific sur...

Association studies are the choice approach in the discovery of the genomic basis of complex traits. To carry out such analysis, researchers frequently need to (1) select optimally informative sets of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in candidate regions and (2) annotate the results of associations found by means of genome-wide SNP arrays. These are complex tasks, since many criteria have...

We examine the relationship between the directly observable indicator of new technology, ICT investment ratio, and skill upgrading by analysing changes in employment and wage structure of 25 Korean industrial sectors over the 1993-99 period. The results show that there has been little relationship between ICT diffusion and skill upgrading during the entire period of 1993-99. Meanwhile, the posi...

In this study, drought conditions involving risk of fires are detected applying SMOSderived soil moisture data and land surface temperature models. Moisture-temperature (SM-LST) patterns studied between 2010 and 2014 were linked to main fire regimes in the Iberian Peninsula. Most wildfires burned in warm and dry soils, but the analysis of pre-fire conditions differed among seasons. Absolute val...

A new stereoscopic measurement technique is developed to obtain an all-sky altitude map of aurora using two ground-based digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. Two identical full-color all-sky cameras were set with an 8 km separation across the Chatanika area in Alaska (Poker Flat Research Range and Aurora Borealis Lodge) to find localized emission height with the maximum correlation of the...

This article analyzes the digital communication of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) during its intervention in Spain due to emergency caused by COVID-19. Using content analysis techniques, text engages with a number messages posted on MSF website, emails sent partners and publications Facebook Twitter. The material (a total 58 messages) is categorized subject, sender, format, objective, as well p...

The impacts of invasive species on resident communities are driven by a tangle ecological interactions difficult to quantify empirically. Combining niche model with population dynamic model, both allometrically parametrized, may represent consistent framework investigate in food web context when empirical data scarce. We used this assess the consequences an apex predator ( Silurus glanis ) peri...

In this work, we present an alternative methodology to solve the particle-fluid interaction in resolved CFDEM coupling framework. This numerical approach consists of a Discrete Element Method (DEM) with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) scheme, solving motion immersed particles fluid phase. As novelty, our explicitly accounts for body force acting on phase when computing local momentum balance...

The present paper proposes a reliable alternative for the increasing stability of polypropylene (PP) by modified polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS). chemiluminescence measurements and FTIR records point complementarily out determinant influence substituents on progress oxidation during accelerated degradation caused ?-irradiation. main kinetic approach acting in radiation-induced agin...

Recently, a new and versatile assay to determine the partitioning coefficient [Formula: see text] as a measure for the affinity of peripheral membrane proteins for lipid bilayers was presented in the research article entitled, "Introducing a fluorescence-based standard to quantify protein partitioning into membranes" [1]. Here, the well-characterized binding of hexahistidine-tag (His6) to NTA(N...