Condylar fracture of the third metacarpal bone (Mc3) is the commonest cause of racetrack fatality in Thoroughbred horses. Linear defects involving hyaline articular cartilage, articular calcified cartilage (ACC) and subchondral bone (SCB) have been associated with the fracture initiation site, which lies in the sagittal grooves of the Mc3 condyle. We discovered areas of thickened and abnormally...

[1] The quantification of coastal connectivity is important for a wide range of real-world applications ranging from assessment of pollutant risk to nearshore fisheries management. For these purposes, coastal connectivity can be defined as the probability that water parcels from one location have advected to another site over a given time interval. Here we demonstrate how to quantify connectivi...

The structural health monitoring system (SHMS) provides an effective tool to conduct full-scale measurements on existing bridges for essential research on bridge wind engineering. In July 2008, Typhoon Fung-Wong lashed China and hit Sutong cable-stayed bridge (SCB) in China. During typhoon period, full-scale measurements were conducted to record the wind data and the structural vibration respon...

Abstract Various 1‐(1‐hydroxyalkyl) paraconyl alcohols are important signaling molecules within antibiotics production in Streptomyces sp. Intending developing a flexible convergent chemical synthesis of such butanolides, zwitterionic aza‐Claisen rearrangement was chosen as reliable strategy generating the central stereotriad. Reaction enantiopure N ‐allyl pyrrolidines and 4‐phenylbutenoic acid...

INTRODUCTION: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a disease involving all the joint tissues. There is a persisting debate as to where the earliest changes of OA occur, cartilage or bone. Subchondral bone (SCB) remodeling is a common finding with cartilage lesions in both equine and human joints [1,2]. Focal SCB porosity in association with articular cartilage (AC) damage in the third metacarpal/tarsal bone ...

A version of the dueling bandit problem is addressed in which a Condorcet winner may not exist. Two algorithms are proposed that instead seek to minimize regret with respect to the Copeland winner, which, unlike the Condorcet winner, is guaranteed to exist. The first, Copeland Confidence Bound (CCB), is designed for small numbers of arms, while the second, Scalable Copeland Bandits (SCB), works...

We describe a method for achieving arbitrary 1-qubit gates and controlled-NOT gates within the context of the Single Cooper Pair Box (SCB) approach to quantum computing. Such gates are sufficient to support universal quantum computation. Quantum gate operations are achieved by applying sequences of voltages and magnetic fluxes to single qubits or pairs of qubits. Neither the temporal duration, ...

Detection of Salmonella spp. in 344 samples of bean sprouts was attempted by pre-enriched in buffered peptone water (BPW) or lactose broth (LB) at 37 degrees C, followed by selective enrichments, selenite cystein broth (SCB) and Rappaport medium (RV) at 43 degrees C. Four selective media, bismuth sulphite agar (BSA), brilliant green agar (BGA), Salmonella-Shigella agar (SSA) and MacConkey agar ...

Abstract. Deep basins create uniquely favorable conditions for causing air pollution, and the Sichuan Basin (SCB) in Southwest China is such a basin featuring frequent heavy pollution. A wintertime haze pollution event SCB was studied with conventional intensive observation data WRF-Chem model to explore 3D distribution of PM2.5 understand impact regional pollutant emissions, circulations assoc...

During 29–30 UTC June 2013, a severe rainfall event with long and narrow region of strong precipitation occurred in the central Sichuan Basin (SCB). Under combined influence Tibetan Plateau vortex (TPV) southwest (SWV), two banded radar echoes existed developed simultaneously over SCB. The analysis reveals that vertical wind shear (VWS) caused by circulations TPV SWV was dominant factor formati...