Due to the insufficient radial stiffness of the steel tube, the cracking of the weld and the plastic deformation of the string often occur under the cyclic loading of the hollow section pipe joint.In order to avoid such a failure, the overlapped K-joints were strengthened by pouring different concrete into the chords.Furthermore, to explore the det
Self-propelling phenomenon that the corresponding device can move on water surface without external energy input has prospective applications in different fields including cell and bacterial control, Hallway Runner medical transportation and drug delivery.However, the current strategies to propel the microdevices have many problems which extremely
Abstract Background The genetics of advanced biliary tract cancers (BTC), which encompass intra- and extra-hepatic cholangiocarcinomas as well as gallbladder carcinomas, are heterogeneous and remain to be fully defined.Methods To better characterize mutations in established known oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes we tested a mass spectrometric b
Monali S Malvankar-Mehta,1,2 Ryan Wilson,3 Erik Leci,3 Kelly Hatch,4 Sapna Sharan1 1Department of Ophthalmology, Ivey Eye Institute, St.Joseph’s Hospital, 2Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 3Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, 4Allyn & Betty Taylor Library, Natural Sciences Centre, The University of Western Ontario, Lon
OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to determine the prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis and its associated factors among women living with HIV attending an AIDS clinic in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.METHODS: Cross-sectional study among women attending an AIDS clinic in Manaus RESPRIT between March and December 2010 for gynecological examination were invited to