Abstract To reduce environmental impact and hydration heat from high cement consumption in advanced cement-based composites, this study proposes the partial substitution by fly ash (FA) coal bottom (CBA) rates of 15% mass (7.5% FA 7.5% CBA) 30% (15% CBA). Matrixes were assessed for their physical mechanical characteristics though tests compressive strength, capillary water absorption ultrasonic...

p-Chlorobenzaldehyde (p-CBA) is used as an important chemical intermediate for the preparation of pharmaceuticals, agricultural chemicals, dyestuffs, optical brighteners, and metal finishing products. The study aimed to evaluate the effect of biofield energy treatment on the physicochemical and spectroscopic properties of p-CBA. The study was accomplished in two groups i.e. control and treated....

Understanding of functional diversity of microbial populations has lagged description of their molecular diversity. Differences in substrate specificity, kinetics, products, and regulation can dramatically influence phenotypic variation among closely related strains, features that are missed when the strains studied are the fastest-growing and most easily isolated from serial enrichments. To in...

OBJECTIVE To increase the detection of MuSK-Abs using a CBA and test their pathogenicity. METHODS Sera from 69 MuSK-RIA-positive patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) (Definite MuSK-MG), 169 patients negative for MuSK-RIA and AChR-RIA (seronegative MG, SNMG), 35 healthy individuals (healthy controls, HCs), and 16 NMDA receptor-Ab-positive (NMDAR-Ab) disease controls were tested for binding to ...

Two different disulfide (SS)-containing poly(amidoamine) (PAA) polymers were constructed using guanidino (Gua)-containing monomers (ie, arginine [Arg] and agmatine [Agm]) and N,N'-cystamine bisacrylamide (CBA) by Michael-addition polymerization. In order to characterize these two Gua-SS-PAA polymers and investigate their potentials as short hairpin RNA (shRNA)-delivery carriers, pSilencer 4.1-C...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to determine whether cutting balloon angioplasty (CBA) has advantages over other modalities in treatment of in-stent restenosis (ISR). BACKGROUND Controversies exist regarding optimal treatment for ISR. Recently, CBA emerged as a tool in management of ISR. METHODS A total of 648 lesions treated for ISR were divided into four groups according to the tr...

Computer-based assessment (CBA) is yet to have a significant impact on highstakes educational assessment, but the equivalence between CBA and paper-andpencil (P&P) test scores will become a central concern in education as CBA increases. It is argued that as CBA and P&P tests provide test takers with qualitatively different experiences, the impact of individual differences on the testing experie...

Sensor nodes deployed at hostile environments suffer compromise node attacks, in which an adversary injects counterfeit data into the sink causing error detection at upper level and energy wastage in en-route sensor nodes. A novel authentication scheme known as, Cooperative BitCompressed Authentication (CBA) is based on random graph characteristic of sensor node deployment and a cooperative bit...

Immune spleen cells from LCM virus-infected (CBA X C57BL/6)F1 radiation chimeras entirely repopulated with CBA-T6 lymphocytes were cytotoxic for allogeneic, LCM virus infected C57BL/6 mouse-derived target cells. Normal C57BL/6 targets were not lysed. CBA-T6 lymphocytes derived from (CBA X C57BL/6) radiation chimeras sensitized in vitro against TNP-conjugated C57BL/6 spleen cells lysed TNP-conju...