A protein called P36 holds the key to how different species of malaria parasite invade liver cells.

Title of dissertation: FLEX CRACKING AND TEMPERATUREHUMIDITY-BIAS EFFECTS ON RELIABILITY OF MULTILAYER CERAMIC CAPACITORS Mohammadreza Keimasi, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Professor Michael Pecht Department of Mechanical Engineering Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) are known to be susceptible to cracking when subjected to excessive printed circuit board (PCB) flexu...

This study made comparisons of the expected noise and durability performance of asphalt surface mixes based on laboratory testing only, and recommended a set of surface mixes for field test sections with improved surface performance properties. The study included a series of experiments to investigate the effects of several important mix variables identified in studies of field test sections, i...

Pavement systems have significant impacts on the environment and economy due to large material consumption, energy input, and capital investment. To evaluate the sustainability of rigid pavement overlay designs, an integrated life cycle assessment and life cycle cost analysis model was developed to calculate the environmental impacts and costs of overlay systems resulting from material producti...

This paper presents an experimental study and theoretical analyses on the monotonic and fatigue performance in bending of a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber-reinforced engineered cementitious composite (ECC) overlay system. The influence of the interfacial characteristics between overlay and old concrete substrate on the overall bending performance is investigated. The experimental results show th...

Computational reflection is gaining interest in practical applications: modern software frequently requires strong adaptability conditions to be met in order to fit a heterogenous and evolving computing environment. Most of these applications only need limited but flexible reflective capabilities rather than sophisticated reflective languages and reflective runtime systems. However, there is no...

Although solidification cracking is not usually regarded as a serious problem when welding ferritic steels, improvements in the submerged arc welding process, using higher deposition rates and faster welding speeds, have led to welding conditions more likely to give cracking. Furthermore, the need to weld stronger tougher steels, where the inspection requirements are more stringent, has led to ...

Citation: Bellingeri M, Quilot-Turion B, Oliveira Lino L and Bevacqua D (2018) The Crop Load Affects Brown Rot Progression in Fruit Orchards: High Fruit Densities Facilitate Fruit Exposure to Spores but Reduce the Infection Rate by Decreasing Fruit Growth and Cuticle Cracking. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:170. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00170 The Crop Load Affects Brown Rot Progression in Fruit Orchards: H...

Password plays an important role in online authentication. But it suffer from two interactable problems ,one is password cracking and second is password theft. Password agent mechanism contains strong hashing scheme which provides stronger protection against password theft and password cracking. Password Agent generates strong passwords by enhancing the hash function with a large random salt. T...