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In situ characterization of work hardening and springback in grade 2 alpha-titanium under tensile load

Plastic effects during sheet metal forming can lead to undesirable distortions in formed components. Here, the three-stage work hardening and plastic strain recovery ("springback") in a cold-rolled, alpha-phase commercially pure titanium is examined. Inter ...

2019

Combined rehabilitation promotes recovery of motor functionality in a mouse model of stroke

Silvestro Micera, Maria Pasquini

Neuro-rehabilitative research is developing novel strategies to enhance the effectiveness of therapies after stroke by using a combination of physical and plasticizing treatments 1-3. Previous studies have shown that repeated optogenetics stimulation of ne ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Concrete Performance of Limestone Calcined Clay Cement (LC3) Compared with Conventional Cements

Karen Scrivener, Lionel Sofia, François Henri Avet

This study aims to demonstrate the robustness of concrete made of limestone calcined clay cement (LC3). Two campaigns were carried out using 375 kg.m(-3) and 500 kg.m(-3) of binder and targeting plastic and self-placing workability, respectively. The concr ...

AMER SOC TESTING MATERIALS2019

Rejuvenation of Lakes in Indian Cities: A Case Study for the Betterment of Wetlands in Bangalore

Pollution is defined as “to make something impure”. Water bodies, natural or man-made, are susceptible to pollution ranging from plastic waste disposals to urban and industrial sewage discharge. Until 1960, records show that there were 262 water bodies in ...

Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019

Evidence of traffic-generated air pollution in Havana

François Golay, Alain Clappier, Jessie Madrazo Bacallao

In Havana, transport is blamed as a likely source of pollution issues. which is usually supported on arguments referring to a vehicle fleet mainly made of old cars (i.e., most models are American from the 1950s or Russian from the 1980s) with poor technica ...

CENTRO CIENCIAS ATMOSFERA UNAM2019

D35-TiO2 nano-crystalline film as a high performance visible-light photocatalyst towards the degradation of bis-phenol A

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Lin Yang, Xue Bai

Dye-sensitized photocatalytic suspension system for wastewater treatment is still limited in practice due to particle aggregation, fast charge carrier recombination, poor stability and recycling issue. In this study, we combine TiO2 nano-crystalline film w ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2019

Marine transport of plastic fragments from dolly ropes used in demersal fisheries in the North Sea

Florence Marie Renée Cuttat

Dolly ropes (DR) are used in beamtrawling and other types of fishing to protect the nets from being ripped by the sea bottom. They constitute an important source of plastic pollution in the regions where this type of fishing prevails. The aim of this proje ...

2018

Platinum sensitivity of ovarian cancer cells does not influence their ability to induce M2-type macrophage polarization

Mei-Wen Peng, Agata Mlynska

ProblemDevelopment of platinum resistance in ovarian cancer is mediated by both cancer cells and tumor microenvironment. Activation of epithelial-mesenchymal transition program in cancer cells may lead to enrichment for resistant clones. These processes ca ...

WILEY2018

Identify homogeneous areas of similar pollution trends thanks to time series of the monitoring network in the Lombardy region

Camille Sandra Deborah Fallous

Study of the spatial distribution of monitoring stations over Lombardia using cluster analysis of pollutants time series and spatial statistics tools ...

2018

Recherche de fragments de plastique dans les sédiments profonds du Léman

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Florian Faure

A growing number of studies focusing on microplastics (plastic particles smaller than 5 mm) show this issue affects all environmental matrices and compartments, and suspicions grow as to their toxicity. In this context, the Commission Internationale pour l ...

2017

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