The pyroclastic aggregate concrete of Trajan's Markets (110 CE), now Museo Fori Imperiali in Rome, has absorbed energy from seismic ground shaking and long-term foundation settlement for nearly two millenia while remaining largely intact at the structural scale. The scientific basis of this exceptional service record is explored through computed tomography of fracture surfaces and synchroton X-...

The radio signature of a shock travelling through the solar corona is known as a type II solar radio burst. In rare cases these bursts can exhibit a fine structure known as “herringbones”, which are a direct indicator of particle acceleration occurring at the shock front. However, few studies have been performed on herringbones and the details of the underlying particle acceleration processes a...

web applications that facilitate the acquisition, integration, and dissemination of multimedia biomedical data over the web, thereby reducing the cost of knowledge sharing. There is a lack of highlevel web application development tools suitable for use by researchers, clinicians, and educators who are not skilled programmers. Our Web Interfacing Repository Manager (WIRM) is a software toolkit t...

Network effects may be either direct or indirect. While many analyses conßate the two, I show that the ways in which direct and indirect effects inßuence technological standardization are quite different. Some parameter changes have opposite effects in the two models, and some factors which are irrelevant under direct effects are central under indirect effects. Compatibility in particular has a...

In recent years, the medical curriculum has been changed in many institutions worldwide. New concepts such as problem-based or evidence-based learning have consequences for teaching anatomy (Drake, 1998). Various papers have been published, for example, on the effects of self-directed learning on teaching anatomy (Peplow, 1990), small group case-based learning programs (Hansen and Krackov, 1994...

Abstract Although there is a growing number of research articles investigating the performance in banking industry, on Chinese efficiency rather focused discussing rankings to detriment unveiling its productive structure light competition. This issue utmost importance considering relevant transformations economy over last decades. development two-stage network production process (production and...

Abstract Complement (C’) activation is a prominent feature of SLE ICs, but the mechanism by which C’ mediates cellular ICs not well understood. To investigate this question, we formed in situ healthy donor (HD) whole blood (WB) adding plasma (n=1–3;10% v/v) or HD (as control) along with apoptotic bodies (generated from RAW 264.7 cells) RNP-Sm antigen (Arotec Diagnostics, New Zealand) and withou...

Pushing the Envelope: Challenges in a Frame-Based Representation of Human Anatomy Natalya F. Noy, Mark A. Musen, José L.V. Mejino, Jr., Cornelius Rosse 1 Stanford Medical Informatics Stanford University Stanford, CA 2 Structural Informatics Group Department of Biological Structure University of Washington Seattle, WA Abstract One of the main threads in the history of knowledge-representation fo...

1. Sloand EM, Maciejewski JP, Dunn D, et al. Correction of the PNH defect by GPI-anchored protein transfer. Blood. 1998;92:4439-4445. 2. Civenni G, Test ST, Brodbeck U, Bütikofer P. In vitro incorporation of GPIanchored proteins into human erythrocytes and their fate in the membrane. Blood. 1998;91:1784-1792. 3. Hatanaka M, Seya T, Miyagawa S, et al. Cellular distribution of a GPIanchored compl...

Integrated spectroscopic analyses and synchrotron X-ray microdiffraction investigations provide insights into the long-term reactivity of volcanic aggregate components calcium-aluminum-silicate-hydrate (C-A-S-H) binder in mortar samples from robust concrete sepulchral corridor Tomb Caecilia Metella, 1st C BCE, Rome. The results innovative micrometer-scale analytical maps indicate that Pozzolane...