When humans serve as inadvertent intermediate hosts for Echinococcus multilocularis, disease (alveolar echinococcosis [AE]) may result from the expanding parasite metacestode in visceral organs, mostly in the liver. Benzimidazole carbamate derivatives such as mebendazole and albendazole are used for chemotherapeutic treatment of AE. However, these treatments are, in most cases, parasitistatic r...

Al2O3-Y2O3 laminated coating can be applied in fusion reactors to prevent fuel leakage and radiological hazard. However, the residual stress induced by thermal cycles during operation of reactor cause failure coating. In order analyze problem, finite element models coatings with 600 nm total thickness different layout were analyzed. The max principal site is located at sub-top layer. Y2O3 decre...

The paper presents the computer-aided design and construction of a large glued laminated timber structure in Aosta, Italy. The structure was completely computer modelled with in-house developed software, which considers both torsion and curvature constraints of timber. Further proprietary software was used to develop, on a plane, the shape of each timber layer without torsion and curvature . Th...

An innovative actuation principle is introduced in this paper to drive a rotary motor using an anisotropic piezoelectric composite laminate. The driving element is a three layer laminated beam with piezoceramics sandwiched between two anti-symmetric composite laminae. By taking advantage of material anisotropy, torsional motion can be induced from in-plane strain actuation. With such structural...

The factors determining the layer-specific termination of hippocampal afferents are not known. Previous studies have suggested that the laminated termination of afferent fiber systems is caused by their sequential ingrowth during development. Here we have tested this temporal hypothesis of fiber segregation by an in vitro confrontation system in which the sequential arrival of entorhinal and co...

Silver nanowire-based flexible transparent electrodes have critical problem, in spite of their excellent electrical and optical properties, that the electrical conductance and transparency degrade within several days in air because of oxidation of silver. To prevent the degradation of the silver nanowire, we encapsulated Ag-NWs with thin TiO2 barrier. Bar-coated silver nanowires on flexible pol...

We present a mathematical framework to provide general well-posedness and approximation results for a laminated curved beam. The layered beam consists of an elastic core layer, symmentric viscoelastic damping layers, symmetric constraining layers and bonded piezoceramic patch pairs on the outer surfaces. The model includes unbounded inputs from the piezoceramic patches, hysteresis and shear in ...

The structural analysis of an infinite unsymmetric laminated composite Timoshenko beam over Pasternak viscoelastic foundation under moving load is studied. The beam is subjected to a travelling concentrated load. Closed form steady state solutions, based on the first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) are developed. In this analysis, the effect of bend-twist coupling is also evaluated. Selec...