The CLT-concrete composite (CCC) solution is appealing since it possesses many advantages of a timber-concrete flooring system with small thickness. However, the vibration criteria usually an obstacle in design process, especially more onerous for long-span floor. present study focus on dynamic properties (fundamental frequency and damping) CCC beams featured notched connectors. Three were fabr...

Neonicotinoid insecticides act on nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and are particularly effective against sucking pests. They are widely used in crops protection to fight against aphids, which cause severe damage. In the present study we evaluated the susceptibility of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum to the commonly used neonicotinoid insecticides imidacloprid (IMI), thiamethoxam (TMX) and cl...

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of fiber-optic laryngoscopy (FOL) on the weaning process from mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients with a positive cuff leak test (CLT) as compared with the current recommended strategy based on corticosteroids.In this prospective observational pilot study conducted over a 1-year period in a 15-bed ICU, CLT was systematically per...

The Central Limit Theorem (CLT) is an important result in statistics and econometrics and econometricians often rely on the CLT for inference in practice. Even though different conditions apply to different kinds of data, the CLT results are believed to be generally available for a range of situations. This paper illustrates the use of the Kullback-Leibler Information (KLI) measure to assess ho...

Prefabricated engineered solid wood panel construction systems can sequester and store CO2. Modular cross-laminated timber (CLT, also called cross-lam) panels form the basis of low-carbon, engineered construction systems using solid wood panels that can be used to build residential infill developments of 10 storeys or higher. Multi-apartment buildings of 4 to 10 storeys constructed entirely in ...

Purpose Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of vision loss. Previous studies have shown signaling pathways mediated by Stat3 (signal transducer and activator of transcription 3) play a primary role in diabetic retinopathy progression. This study tested CLT-005, a small molecule inhibitor of Stat3, for its dose-dependent therapeutic effects on vision loss in a rat model of diabetic retinopat...

l.INTRODUCTION AND RESULTS In recent papers Bezandry and Fernique (1990,1992), Fernique (1993) have given new convergence and tightness criteria for random processes whose sample paths are right-continuous and have leftlimits. These criteria have been applied by Bezandry and Fernique, Bloznelis and Paulauskas to prove the central limit theorem (CLT) in the Skorohod space D[0, 1]. In this paper,...

This paper describes novel experiments to identify the reduction in compressive strength of cross-laminated timber (CLT) at elevated temperatures. The adhesive type and number plies was varied between CLT samples allow an assessment ‘system’, rather than only. Samples were subjected steady state transient heating conditions their ultimate load bearing capacities measured. At ambient reference t...

We study the relationship between chaotic behavior and the violation of the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) in the Kuramoto model. We calculate sums of angles at equidistant times along deterministic trajectories of single oscillators and we show that, when chaos is sufficiently strong , the Pdfs of the sums tend to a Gaussian, consistently with the standard CLT. On the other hand, when the system ...