Dey, Alinda Vastrad, Akshay Vijay Bado, Mattia Francesco Sokolov, Aleksandr Kaklauskas, Gintaris
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Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
The contribution of concrete to the tensile stiffness (tension stiffening) of a reinforced concrete (RC) member is a key governing factor for structural serviceability analyses. However, among the current tension stiffening models, few consider the effect brought forth by concrete shrinkage, and none studies take account of the effect for very long...
Zhang, Zhiqiang Zhang, Zhilu Yin, Shaoning Yu, Linwen
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Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
The increasing annual emissions of iron ore tailings have proved a great threat to the natural environment, and the shortage of natural river sand, as well as the pursuit of sustainable development materials, provides motivation to reuse iron ore tailings as a fine aggregate in concrete. Due to the significantly different properties of iron tailing...
Niederhäusern, Simona de Camellini, Stefania Sabia, Carla Iseppi, Ramona Bondi, Moreno Messi, Patrizia
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Foods (Basel, Switzerland)
Sixty-nine Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) and bifidobacteria were isolated and identified from Italian dairy products (raw milk, cream, butter, soft cheese and yoghurt) to find new antimicrobial compounds to use as food bio-preservatives. All the isolates were preliminarily screened by the deferred antagonism method for bacteriocin production. Afterwar...
Holwerda, Melle V'kovski, Philip Wider, Manon Thiel, Volker Dijkman, Ronald
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Microorganisms
With over 50 million currently confirmed cases worldwide, including more than 1.3 million deaths, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has a major impact on the economy and health care system. Currently, limited prophylactic or therapeutic intervention options are available against SARS-CoV-2. In this study, 400...
Bekkouche, Bo M. B. Fritz, Helena K. M. Rigosi, Elisa O'Carroll, David C.
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Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
Improvement of imaging quality has the potential to visualize previously unseen building blocks of the brain and is therefore one of the great challenges in neuroscience. Rapid development of new tissue clearing techniques in recent years have attempted to solve imaging compromises in thick brain samples, particularly for high resolution optical mi...
Sumiya, Motofumi Katahira, Kentaro
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Tošić, Nikola Aidarov, Stanislav de la Fuente, Albert
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Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
Fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC) is increasingly used in structural applications owing to its benefits in terms of toughness, durability, ductility, construction cost and time. However, research on the creep behavior of FRC has not kept pace with other areas such as short-term properties. Therefore, this study aims to present a comprehensive and cri...
Czech, Zbigniew Kabatc, Janina Bartkowiak, Marcin Mozelewska, Karolina Kwiatkowska, Dominika
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Polymers
Commercially available UV curable restorative materials are composed of inorganic filler hydroxyapatite, multifunctional methacrylate, photoinitiator and alkoxylated acrylate. Especially, the application of alkoxylated monomers with different alkoxylation grade allows the reduction of polymerization shrinkage which plays the major role by applicati...
Barabanshchikov, Yury Usanova, Kseniia Akimov, Stanislav Uhanov, Aleksandr Kalachev, Andrej
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Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
The influence of the electrostatic precipitator ash "Zolest-bet" and silica fume on the sulfate resistance of Portland cement was studied. The evaluation criteria were the expansion, strength, density, and appearance of the samples, hardened in a 5% Na2SO4 solution starting from 3 days of age for 192 days at a temperature of 20 °C and 148 days at 4...
Van Calster, Ben van Smeden, Maarten De Cock, Bavo Steyerberg, Ewout W
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Statistical methods in medical research
When developing risk prediction models on datasets with limited sample size, shrinkage methods are recommended. Earlier studies showed that shrinkage results in better predictive performance on average. This simulation study aimed to investigate the variability of regression shrinkage on predictive performance for a binary outcome. We compared stan...