Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) arises from the demolition of road layers. The Optimal Recycling Asphalt Pavements Project concerns cold recycling 100 % RAP without binder addition in base and subbase layers low-traffic roads. In this context, a test program was performed with Rhine region materials to evaluate impact mastic coating untreated RAP. A source reclaimed asphalts 4.4 bitumen is tes...

In most cases authors are permitted to post their version of the article (e.g. in Word or Tex form) to their personal website or institutional repository. Authors requiring further information regarding Elsevier's archiving and manuscript policies are encouraged to visit: a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t The theory of functional dependencies is based on relations, i.e. sets of tuples. Over...

1.Barsoum, J., R. Brown, M. McKee and F.M. Boyce. 1997. Efficient transduction of mammalian cells by a recombinant baculovirus having the vesicular stomatitis virus G glycoprotein. Hum. Gene Ther. 8:2011-2018. 2.Bowles, N.E., R.C. Eisensmith, R. Mohuiddin, M. Pyron and S.L.C. Woo. 1996. A simple and efficient method for the concentration and purification of recombinant retrovirus for increased ...

asthma, juvenile diabetes mellitus, or cancer. As described by the authors, most studies have focused on main effects, with varied results. Either investigators did not consider potential moderating variables or the samples in these studies were too small to test meaningfully for interactions. With increasingly limited resources in the age of “managed care,” individual differences in responses ...

LTRAVIOLET irradiation produces dimers of thymine, thymine-cytosine and cytosine in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) (BEUKERS, IJLSTRA and BERENDS 1960; WACKER, DELLWEG and WEINBLUM 1960; SETLOW, CARRIER and BOLLUM 1965). UV light inactivates transforming DNA and induces thymine dimers in a parallel manner, as if the dimers block transforming activity (SETLOW and SETLOW 1962). Thymine dimers and thy...

Background Large carnivores influence ecosystem functions at various scales. Thus, their local extinction is not only a species-specific conservation concern, but also reflects on the overall habitat quality and ecosystem value. Species-habitat relationships at fine scale reflect the individuals' ability to procure resources and negotiate intraspecific competition. Such fine scale habitat choic...

Conductive silicone rubber has great advantages for strain sensing applications. The electrical behavior of the elastomeric material is rate-dependent and exhibit hysteresis upon cyclic loading. Several constitutive models were developed for mechanical simulation of this material upon loading and unloading. One of the successful approaches to model the time-dependent behavior of elastomers is B...