Abstract To rehabilitate damaged or sub-standard box girders, techniques utilising the lightweight, high strength and corrosion resistance of carbon fibres reinforced polymers (CFRP) composites have been proposed. This paper presents experimental results for two series ...

Colony stimulation factor-1 receptor (CSF-1R), which is also known as FMS kinase, plays an important role in initiating inflammatory, cancer, and bone disorders when it is overstimulated by its ligand, CSF-1. Innate immunity, as well as macrophage differentiation and su...

ABSTRACT Objective Hypertension is the most important modifiable risk factor for stroke globally. We hypothesised that country-income level variations in knowledge, detection and treatment of hypertension may contribute to variations in the association of blood pressure...

International audience; Composition of Web services is a cornerstone step in the development of interoperable systems. However, Web services still face data-heterogeneity challenges, although several attempts of using semantics. In addition, the context in which Web ser...

Information wikis and especially Wikipedia have become one of the most attractive environments for informal learning. The nature of wikis enables learners to freely navigate the learning environment and independently con-struct knowledge without being required to follow...

Abstract The multi-phase flow of liquid/supercritical CO2 and water (non-wetting and wetting phases, respectively) in a two-dimensional silicon micromodel was investigated at reservoir conditions (80 bar, 24 °C and 40 °C). The fluorescent microscopy and microscopic part...

Abstract In this paper, a variable structure control design is presented for a class of fractional time-delay systems of incommensurate order. First, a stable switching manifold, independent of the delay, is designed for a virtual integer-order system. Then, a switched ...

UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) applications development projects are complex due to the high level of details involved in the development stages and the different components that must be integrated within the same project. This paper discusses the role of knowledge manag...

A consanguineous [first cousin marriage] family of Arabic ethnic origin with four unaffected siblings and two male siblings affected by a Dyskeratosis Congenita-like disorder, was studied by Genome-Wide SNP homozygosity mapping, functional and positional candidate gene ...

Impact of different natural phenolic compounds [tannic acid (TA), catechin (CT), caffeic acid (CA) and gallic acid (GA)] at a level of 200 ppm on quality retention of camel meat during 9 days of refrigerated storage was investigated. Upon addition of different natural p...