Shrinkage can be critical factor for the design of structural members due to the length changes by the timedependent deformation. Given the high fluidity and different mixture proportions of SCC, the shrinkage of such concrete can differ from those of conventional concrete or HPC of normal consistency. Proper estimate of autogenous shrinkage of self-consolidating concrete (SCC) can provide engi...

Isabelle Olivieri passed away on Saturday 10 December at 4 a.m. She passed away quietly after having fought not only with an admirable courage against her cancer but also against a paraneoplastic syndrome, which heavily handicapped her for the last years of her life. Isabelle would have passed 60 years in March 2017. She entered the Agronomic College (AgroParisTech) in Paris in 1977, specialize...

When Olaf Breidbach took over the directorate of the Ernst-Haeckel-Haus on 1 April 1995, the philosopher and neurobiologist officially commenced his career as an historian of science. For almost twenty years he held the chair of History of Science in the Biological-Pharmaceutical Faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, at the Institute for the History of Medicine, Science and Technol...

These and other letters, including a letter from Dr L. I. Taft reporting on the first brain the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) received, are not included in the published Gajdusek correspondence of the early days. On 4th February, John Gunther sent another letter to Gray Anderson in which he wrote, ‘The Government Anthropologist has visited Fore and informs me the Administration is losi...

Francesco Ruggiero (1957–2007) was a brilliant accelerator physicist, an inventive researcher, a great collaborator, an excellent mentor, and a true gentleman. We here take a look at Francesco’s scientific work, and highlight some of his contributions to accelerator physics. More details can be found in the slides presented by the speakers of the Francesco Ruggiero Memorial Symposium held at CE...

TSAI, L., S. M. SIGWARD, C. D. POLLARD, M. J. FLETCHER, and C. M. POWERS. Effects of Fatigue and Recovery on Knee Mechanics during Side-Step Cutting. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc., Vol. 41, No. 10, pp. 1952–1957, 2009. Introduction: Changes in knee mechanics immediately after a fatiguing bout of exercise are thought to place an individual at a greater risk for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury....

This study aimed to investigate the impact of methylxanthine abstinence (MA) periods on CYP1A2 activity in individuals with varying levels of caffeine consumption through development of a population pharmacokinetic model of caffeine and its major metabolite paraxanthine. This study developed and evaluated a mixed-effects pharmacokinetic model for caffeine and paraxanthine concentration-time dat...

professor caterina  mammina, 1957-2016