Structural health monitoring through field instrumentation has been carried out successfully on many highway bridges to monitor the short-term and long-term performance of structures. Properly designed and strategically placed instruments can help collect valuable data regarding the condition, the stress and strain, deflection, temperature gradients, and the time-dependent properties, such as c...

Careful maintenance is essential to ensure the long-term serviceability of bridges. It is therefore necessary to establish a database which has a large capacity for storage of time-series data including structural properties at construction completion, inspection records, and repair and maintenance records, and which utilizes state-of-the-art information and telecommunication technologies to al...

Bridges deteriorate over their life cycles and require continuous maintenance to ensure their structural integrity, and in turn, the safety of the public. Maintaining bridges is a multi-faceted operation that requires both domain knowledge and analytics techniques over large data sources. Although most existing bridge management systems (BMS) are very efficient at data storage, they are not as ...

The management, analysis, and integration of Big Data have received increasing attention in healthcare research as well as in medical bioinformatics. The J-ASPECT study is the first nationwide survey in Japan on the real-world setting of stroke care using data obtained from the diagnosis procedure combination-based payment system. The J-ASPECT study demonstrated a significant association betwee...

Bridges deteriorate over their life cycles and require continuous maintenance to ensure their structural integrity, and in turn, the safety of the public. Maintaining bridges is a multi-faceted operation that requires both domain knowledge and analytics techniques over large data sources. Although most existing bridge management systems (BMS) are very efficient at data storage, they are not as ...

An in vitro system for the study of idiotype (Id) expression on antitrimethylamino hapten antibody-producing cells and its regulation by two classes of helper T cells is described. These cells are distinguished in four ways: one requires a hapten-carrier bridge and gives a good response that is low in Id; it does not bind to Id-coated dishes and is not affected by anti-I-J plus complement. The ...