Bridges and viaducts are critical components of railway transport infrastructures, providing safe efficient means for trains to cross over natural barriers such as rivers valleys. Ensuring the continuous operation these structures is therefore essential avoid disastrous economic consequences even human losses. Drive-by methodologies have emerged a potential cost-effective monitoring solution ac...

Firm evidence of the biaxial nematic phase in liquid crystals, not induced by a magnetic or electric field, has been established only recently. The discovery of these biaxially anisotropic liquid crystals has opened up new areas of both fundamental and applied research. The advances in biaxial liquid-crystal-related topics call for a good overview on the propagation of waves through biaxially a...

New technologies that analyze the behavior of thousands of genes in parallel are creating, for the first time, a foundation of data for building integrated models of cellular processes. This review discusses the general issues of utilizing genomic methods in fundamental and applied research settings, using the study of stress responses and improvement of secondary metabolite production as examp...

In an effort to continually improve performance of the essential public health services with community partners, the diverse public health workforce in a major metropolitan area engaged in an organizational learning process. Core public health organizational competencies, identified in a multi-year collaborative applied research initiative, provided the curricula content for the public health l...

This article describes a mixed methods conceptual framework for evidence-based dentistry to enhance the curriculum at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry. A focus of recent curriculum reform has been to prepare students to integrate evidence-based dentistry into clinical practice. The authors developed a framework consisting of four conceptual phases to introduce curricu...