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This paper provides a description of the different databases and various influencing factors in the development of a tool to estimate the failure rate of cross-country pipelines. The databases available cover a number of different materials transported: crude oil and liquid products, and natural gas. The various databases give excellent base data to estimate the likelihood of failures of cross-...

Methods: A total of 25 fresh-frozen cadaveric shoulders were randomized into 5 suture configuration groups: single-row repair with simple stitch technique; single-row repair with modified Mason-Allen technique; double-row Mason-Allen technique; doublerow cross-bridge technique; and double-row suture bridge technique. Load and displacement were recorded at 100 Hz until failure. Stiffness and bon...

In any artificial photosynthetic system, the oxidation of water to molecular oxygen provides the electrons needed for the reduction of protons or carbon dioxide to a fuel. Understanding how this four-electron reaction works in detail is important for the development of improved robust catalysts made of Earth-abundant materials, like first-row transition-metal oxides. Here, using time-resolved F...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs 2 monotone grid classes are finitely based Journal Article Copyright and Moral Rights for the articles on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. For more information on Open Research Online's data policy on reuse of materials please consult the policies page. In this not...

We previously found that a mutation at the ODA7 locus in Chlamydomonas prevents axonemal outer row dynein assembly by blocking association of heavy chains and intermediate chains in the cytoplasm. We have now cloned the ODA7 locus by walking in the Chlamydomonas genome from nearby molecular markers, confirmed the identity of the gene by rescuing the mutant phenotype with genomic clones, and ide...

The effect of heavy metals and light metals ions on anaerobic digestion of three agricultural biomasses (two row barley, wheat bran and a mixture of 75 % corn kernels and 25 % corncobs) was investigated in this study. The raw materials were characterized from physico-chemical point of view and their heavy metals content (copper, chromium, nickel, lead and zinc) and light metals ions content (po...

In order to improve the utilization of materials, improving stamping cage processing methods, the single row tapered roller bearing cage is improved from structural strength, puts forward whole stamping cage a type of structure. Use ANSYS finite element analysis to the different structure and the thickness cage. Get the stress contours of the cage, based on equal strength design principles. Get...

Tree convex sets refer to a collection of sets such that each set in the collection is a subtree of a tree whose nodes are the elements of these sets. They extend the concept of row convex sets each of which is an interval over a total ordering of the elements of those sets. They have been applied to identify tractable Constraint Satisfaction Problems and Combinatorial Auction Problems. Recentl...