Abstract The Lingdingyang Bridge is a (580+1666+580m) two-tower three-span sea steel box girder suspension bridge. east anchorage adopts figure eight-shaped ground connecting wall foundation. has diameter of 107.1m and width 65m. thickness 1.5m. the maximum depth 63m, embedded medium weathered granite 5m. overburden nearly 50m, bedrock above 80Mpa 10m, excavation foundation pit 42m. anchor body...

Choline-binding protein F (CbpF) is a modular protein that is bound to the pneumococcal cell wall through noncovalent interactions with choline moieties of the bacterial teichoic and lipoteichoic acids. Despite being one of the more abundant proteins on the surface, along with the murein hydrolases LytA, LytB, LytC and Pce, its function is still unknown. CbpF has been crystallized using the han...

Ewing sarcoma family of tumors (ESFT) is derived from the neural crest, which originates from basal embryo cells in the primitive neural tube. ESFT often arises at the bone, chest wall, and soft tissues of the thoracic region. However, ESFT that arises from the adrenal gland is much rarer and it is usually revealed by clinical symptoms. We report an autopsy case of suicidal hanging, in which ad...

[1] The slip history of the 2003 San Simeon earthquake is constrained by combining strong motion and teleseismic data, along with GPS static offsets and 1-Hz GPS observations. Comparisons of a 1-Hz GPS time series and a co-located strong motion data are in very good agreement, demonstrating a new application of GPS. The inversion results for this event indicate that the rupture initiated at a d...

Field mapping and geochronologic and thermobarometric analyses of the Gurla Mandhata area, in southwest Tibet, reveal major middle to late Miocene, east-west extension along a normal-fault system, termed the Gurla Mandhata detachment system. The maximum fault slip occurs along a pair of low-angle normal faults that have caused significant tectonic denudation of the Tethyan Sedimentary Sequence,...

The functional roles of the three-dimensional fibrillar ultrastructure of the proximal interphalangeal joint volar plates of human fingers were studied by light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. The results revealed that the volar plate consists of three layers of fibers. The first layer forms an intracavity wall with two parts, the proximal "membranous portion", and the distal "meni...

The study evaluated the nurses' interventions to reduce unwanted noise. This hospital-based, descriptive study was conducted at a Training Hospital in the Eastern part of Turkey, Trabzon, between 15-30 January 2016. It was participated by 248 volunteer nurses. Nurses express the noise of visitors (96.3%) on the first rank among the kinds of noise. The results of the study showed that most of th...

Nowadays most plant textiles used for clothing and household are made of cotton and viscose. Before the 19th century however, plant textiles were mainly made from locally available raw materials, in Scandinavia these were: nettle, hemp and flax. It is generally believed that in Viking and early Middle Ages Scandinavia hemp was used only for coarse textiles (i.e. rope and sailcloth). Here we pre...

Objective: To determine the frequency and reliability of cervical soft tissue emphysema and pneumomediastinum in autopsy cases of hanging. Material and Method: We prospectively studied 30 autopsy cases of hanging including 18 males and 12 females with age ranging from 19 to 65 years. The control group consisted of age and sex matched 30 cases that died due to various natural pathologies. Along ...

The core histones have long been known to have an important role in the packaging of DNA into nucleosomes. Today, nucleosome assembly is recognized as an integral component of both transcriptional activation and repression [1]. Transcriptional control is mediated through the assembly of extensive nucleoprotein structures containing both conventional transcription factors and architectural facto...