The study described in this contribution contains a fundamental strategy to select geometries for dry joint profiles 3D-printed concrete constructions. A database, here called the ‘joint catalogue’, variety of types adapted from timber, steel, and bionic connections. Weighting factors different criteria evaluate score various (e.g., manufacturability, duration manufacturing, mechanical behaviou...

Cyclodextrins are naturally oligosaccharides which had cyclic glucopyranoside units even if six to form α-cyclodextrin (α-CD), seven β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) or eight γ-cyclodextrin (γ-CD) and some other derivatives. It has a truncated cone shape with hydrophobic cavity hydrophilic from the external surface of cyclodextrins. Gold nanoparticles incorporated cyclodextrins enhanced optical electrical...

In this paper, a new image reconstruction scheme is presented based on Tuy's cone-beam inversion scheme and its fan-beam counterpart. It is demonstrated that Tuy's inversion scheme may be used to derive a new framework for fanbeam and cone-beam image reconstruction. In this new framework, images are reconstructed via filtering the backprojection image of differentiated projection data. The new ...

PURPOSE Early visual defects in degenerative diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) may arise from phased remodeling of the neural retina. The authors sought to explore the functional expression of ionotropic (iGluR) and group 3, type 6 metabotropic (mGluR6) glutamate receptors in late-stage photoreceptor degeneration. METHODS Excitation mapping with organic cations and computational mole...

We consider the truncated K-moment problem when K ⊆ Rn is the closure of a, not necessarily bounded, open set (which includes the important cases K = Rn and K = Rn+). We completely characterize the interior of the convex cone of finite sequences that have a representing measure on K ⊆ Rn. It is in fact the domain of the Legendre-Fenchel transform associated with a certain convex function. And s...

The widespread application of superconducting magnetic levitation bearings is limited by their relatively low stiffness. Recently we investigated a novel thrust bearing geometry comprised conical frustum (or truncated cone) shaped permanent magnet levitating inside matching tapered hole machined into high-temperature superconductor bulk. This configuration was found to produce superior restorin...

Introduction: Glycoprotein B (gB) is the major antigen for induction of humoral responses against human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) making it an attractive candidate for immune prophylaxis. In the present study, the humoral immune response of BALB/c mice to a truncated HCMV gB protein fused with GFP was evaluated. Methods: The truncated gB coding sequence was synthesized and cloned in pEGFPN1 eukary...