Highway agencies are facing pressure for repairing and replacing underfunded aged road pavement networks that were initially designed historical climatic conditions. Road pavements must be updated while accounting the impacts of climate change, which likely to exacerbated in years come, with limited budgets. Methodologies frameworks help incorporate long-term effects change on performance make ...

Buildings play a substantial role in carbon emissions and contribute to approximately 37% of global emissions. In order control reduce the buildings, report life cycle assessment (LCCA) has been mandated for all new buildings China since 1 April 2022. As technical support accounting efforts China, it is important adhere national standards conducting an LCCA report. this context, GB/T51366-Stand...

We did this study to provide data on the elastic properties of coronary arteries, such being essential when considering the role of mechanical factors in coronary heart disease. In view of the necessity of using postmortem material to study human arteries, we made a preliminary study on the elasticity changes of a muscular artery (the femoral) after excision and cold storage. Dynamic (Ed^) and ...

BACKGROUND External common carotid artery (CCA) diameter and intima-media thickness (IMT) are independently associated with incident stroke and other cardiovascular events. Arterial geometry such as large IMT and large diameter may reflect vulnerable plaques and so impact stroke risk. Finally, arterial changes that exist bilaterally may increase stroke risk. METHOD We studied middle-aged men ...

Heat pumps (HPs) which use low temperature (waste) heat and renewable energy sources to provide high are widely regarded as a critical technology for reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the industrial sector. The HighLift considered here can output up around 200 °C. This article focuses on Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) method its economic evaluation of different industrial-scale heating meth...

Abstract Life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) is a decision-making tool particularly useful for the design of bridges as it predicts lifetime expenses and supports inspections management maintenance activities. LCCA allows to consider uncertainties on loads, resistances, degradation numerical modelling structural response analysis. It also permits different limit states types damage in unified frame...

The subject of this paper is an environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) of processes needed to construct and maintain representative Swiss asphalt, concrete, and composite pavements (including subbase layers) applicable for the Swiss national road network over a period of 75 years. The environmental indicators analyzed are the global warming potential indic...

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) are both application-level protocols layered over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). HTTP is a request/response protocol used for the data transfer over the Internet. The primary function of FTP, on the other hand, is de...ned as transferring ...les e¢ciently and reliably among hosts. We study the statistical and ...