this paper presents the application of three main artificial neural networks (anns) in damage detection of steel bridges. this method has the ability to indicate damage in structural elements due to a localized change of stiffness called damage zone. the changes in structural response is used to identify the states of structural damage. to circumvent the difficulty arising from the non-linear n...

salix integra thunb. is a shrub distributed in china along the huai river riparian zone, and plays an important role in water and soil conservation. s. integra shrub land is easily submerged during july to october due to the flooding of huai river. in order to characterize the physiological mechanisms of waterlogging tolerance of s. integra and to help rationally select waterlogging-tolerant sp...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hemodynamic compromise due to atherosclerotic middle cerebral artery (MCA) disease may induce internal border-zone infarction and cortical neuronal damage. This study aimed to determine whether internal border-zone infarction is associated with increased oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) and a decrease in central benzodiazepine receptors (BZRs) in the overlying cerebral co...

Immune responses have the important function of host defense and protection against pathogens. However, the immune response also causes inflammation and host tissue injury, termed immunopathology. For example, hepatitis B and C virus infection in humans cause immunopathological sequel with destruction of liver cells by the host's own immune response. Similarly, after infection with lymphocytic ...

Although electrosurgical instruments are widely used in surgery to cut tissue layers or to achieve hemostasis by coagulation (electrocautery), only little information is available concerning the inflammatory or immune response towards the debris generated. Given the elevated local temperatures required for successful electrocautery, the remaining debris is likely to contain a plethora of compou...

The purpose of this article is to model defect nucleation. considered as a small volume which evolves damaged zone. damage described by transition zone can be sharp or continuous. In the first case, discontinuities occur and initiation based on bifurcation an equilibrium state. When continuous, continuous.The analysis considering different models damage, depending regularity imposed mechanical ...