The soil-structure interaction (SSI) can significantly alter the characteristics of recorded motions in buildings.The ratio of Fourier amplitude spectrum of the top-story accelerations to that of the foundation accelerations permits the identification of the natural frequency of the fixed-base building.In this study, records of the Chi-Chi earthqua
Determining the variation in premaxillary and dentary bone morphology that may underlie beak shape between two pure layer lines
ABSTRACT: Beak treatment is an effective method of reducing the damage inflicted by severe feather pecking (SFP) but there is significant pressure to eliminate these treatments and rely solely on alternative strategies.Substantial variation in beak shape exists within non-beak treated layer flocks and beak shape appears to be heritable.There is the
Enhancing protein inter-residue real distance prediction by scrutinising deep learning models
Abstract Protein structure prediction (PSP) has achieved significant progress lately via prediction of inter-residue distances using deep learning models and exploitation of the predictions during conformational search.In this context, prediction of large inter-residue distances and also prediction of distances between residues separated largely in
Environmental and occupational cancer in Argentina: a case-control lung cancer study
The main objective of this 127 study was to analyze the risks for lung cancer associated with occupational exposures in a developing country where lung cancer is the first cause of mortality from cancer in men.The study involved 200 men with lung cancer and 397 hospital controls.The OR for current smokers was 8.5, whereas former smokers displayed a