The applications of time series modeling and statistical similarity methods to structural health monitoring (SHM) provide promising and capable approaches to structural damage detection. The main aim of this article is to propose an efficient univariate similarity method named as Kullback similarity (KS) for identifying the location of damage and estimating the level of damage severity. An impr...

If veins were rigid tubes, then a change in mean right auricular pressure would cause a corresponding change in the peripheral venous pressure, provided the velocity of blood flowing along the veins remained constant. However, veins are not rigid, but collapsible, and it has been shown by Lyon, Kennedy and Burwell (1938), and by Holt (1940), that peripheral venous pressure, referred to the leve...

If veins were rigid tubes, then a change in mean right auricular pressure would cause a corresponding change in the peripheral venous pressure, provided the velocity of blood flowing along the veins remained constant. However, veins are not rigid, but collapsible, and it has been shown by Lyon, Kennedy and Burwell (1938), and by Holt (1940), that peripheral venous pressure, referred to the leve...

Background and Aims: Formaldehyde, a colorless aldehyde with pungent odor, has negative effects on systems of the body. Considering, there are a little data about protective substances against kidney damage induced by formaldehyde, the aim of the present study was to examine the effects of different doses of N-acetyl cysteine on biochemical and histopathological parameters in k...

AIMS Preservation of mitochondrial function is essential to limit myocardial damage in ischaemic heart disease. We examined the protective effects and mechanism of a new compound, NecroX-5, on rat heart mitochondria in a hypoxia/reoxygenation (HR) model. METHODS AND RESULTS NecroX-5 reduced mitochondrial oxidative stress, prevented the collapse in mitochondrial membrane potential, improved mi...

In this paper the application of control theory to structural engineering has been presented from a structural engineering perspective. The objective of this paper is to summarize key steps that are required to design an active control system for a structure. Total acceleration feedback with H2/LQG controller is used in this paper. The structural control device is made of tendon/pulley system. ...

Chloroacetaldehyde (CAA) is a chlorination by-product in finished drinking water and a toxic metabolite of a wide variety of industrial chemicals (e.g. vinyl chloride) and chemotherapeutic agents (e.g. cyclophosphamide and ifosfamide). In this research, the cytotoxic mechanisms of CAA in freshly isolated rat hepatocytes were investigated.CAA cytotoxicity was associated with reactive oxygen spec...

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein kinase Rad53 plays a key role in maintaining genomic integrity after DNA damage and is an essential component of the 'intra-S-phase checkpoint'. In budding yeast, alkylating chemicals, such as methyl methanesulfonate (MMS), or depletion of nucleotides by hydroxyurea (HU) stall DNA replication forks and thus activate Rad53 during S-phase. This stabilizes stal...

progressive collapse is a chain reaction of failures propagating throughout a portion of the structure disproportionate to the original local failure occurring when a sudden loss of a critical load‐bearing element initiates a structural element failure, eventually resulting in partial or full collapse of the structure. both general services administration (gsa) and united states department of d...

Werner's syndrome (WS) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that arises as a consequence of mutations in a gene coding for a protein that is a member of RecQ family of DNA helicases, WRN. The cellular function of WRN is still unclear, but on the basis of the cellular phenotypes of WS and of RecQ yeast mutants, its possible role in controlling recombination and/or in maintenance of genomic int...