Carbonation of concrete with construction and demolition waste based recycled aggregates and cement with recycled content

Durability is a major concern in concrete (particularly recycled concrete) structures exposed to carbonation-induced corrosion, given the social, economic, environmental and safety implications involved. This article explores carbonation performance in concrete with 25% or 50% mixed recycled construction and demolition waste aggregate, alone or in conjunction with cement containing 25% fired clay construction and demolition waste. Irrespective of cement type, the mean carbonation depth was slightly greater in materials with 25% or 50% recycled aggregate than in concretes with 100% natural aggregate, although the difference was not statistically significant for the 25% replacement ratio. In all the concretes studied, the carbonation coefficient was below the 4 mm/yr0.5 indicative of good quality. Based on the prediction model proposed in Spain’s concrete code, reinforcement passivity was guaranteed in all these types of concrete when exposed to class XC1 to XC4 carbonation environments for substantially longer than their 100 year design service life.This study was funded under research projects BIA 2013-48876-C3-1-R, BIA2013-48876-C3-2-R and BIA2016-76643-C3-1-R awarded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and grant GR 18122 awarded to the MATERIA Research Group by the Regional Government of Extremadura and the European Regional Development Fund, ERDF. In 2016 University of Extremadura teaching and research personnel benefitted from a mobility grant (MOV15A029) awarded by the Regional Government of Extremadura and in 2018 from a José Castillejo (CAS17/00313) scholarship granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. Philip Van den Heede is since October 2017 a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO) (project number 3E013917) and acknowledges its support.Peer reviewe

Phosphoproteomics data classify hematological cancer cell lines according to tumor type and sensitivity to kinase inhibitors

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Fractura Supracondílea de Humero en Niños: (estudio de la Rigidez Postquirúgica del Codo en 100 Casos Intervenidos a través de un Abordaje Posterior)

El tratamiento de las fracturas supracondíleas de húmero desplazadas en niños mediante reducción abierta y fijación interna es un procedimiento poco utilizado y que no goza del favor de la mayoría de los cirujanos ortopédicos, debido principalmente a la pérdida permanente de movilidad en el codo que se atribuye a esta técnica. Según algunos autores ésta pérdida es mayor aún si se utiliza un abordaje posterior. Se presenta una importante casuística (100 casos) de fracturas muy desplazadas que han sido tratadas mediante reducción abierta y fijación por vía posterior y revisadas a largo plazo. La rigidez postquirúrgica encontrada es en general leve, e inferior si se utiliza un abordaje quirúrgico que respete la integridad anatómica del músculo tríceps.Treatment of displaced supracondylar fractures of the humerus in children by open reduction and internal fixation is a little-used therapeutic method and ill-advised by many authors owing to permanent stiffness of the elbow using this procedure. An important series of 100 very displaced fractures treated by open reduction and fixation from a posterior approach and is slight and less using a surgical approach which respects the anathomic of triceps muscle

Osteoma osteoide sobre callo de fractura

Se comunica un caso de osteoma osteoide de localización tibial en un hombre de 23 años, cuya particularidad ha sido su manifestación clínica después de un largo intervalo libre y de haberse desarrollado sobre el lugar mismo del foco de una fractura cerrada tibial sucedida hacía 4 años. El diagnóstico se realizó por la clínica dolorosa de ritmo nocturno, por el estudio radiológico convencional, por tomografía axial computarizada (TAC) y Resonancia Nuclear Magnética (IRM). Su confirmación se hizo por estudio anatomopatológico. El tratamiento consistió en exéresis quirúrgica de la tumoración tras la cual desapareció el dolor no existiendo residuos después de un año. Aunque numerosas publicaciones han sido consagradas al osteoma osteoide, nos ha parecido interesante publicar esta observación particular de esta tumoración en razón de la rareza de su asiento sobre el lugar mismo del callo de una fractura.We report a case of osteoid osteoma in the tibial region in a 23 year old male, whose interest resides in its clinical appearance following a long period without pain and having developed in the same location of a closed tibial fracture that occured some 4 years ago. The diagnosis was performed in addition to the night-time pain experienced, by means of conventional Radiographic study, and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Diagnostic. Its confirmation was carried out by pathological study. Treatment consisted in surgical exeresis of the tumour. Pain disappeared, after exeresis, not existing tumour ral tissue after one year follow-up. Although numerous publications have been made concerning the osteoide osteoma, it seems interesting to publish this particular case, because of the rarity of its occurrence in the same location of the callus of a fracture

Assessment of agglomerated corks and PVC foams cores crashworthiness under multiple-impact events in different loading conditions

Thanks to the unique flexural properties, sandwich composites are considered as irreplaceable structures in many industrial fields, but their susceptibility to impact events is still a considerable drawback that undermines their structural integrity determining a reduction of their load-bearing capabilities. Considering that the core material plays the major role to distance the skins, the knowledge of its multiple-impacts response becomes a key design parameter in order to ensure a long-term stability to the structure. In view of this, the present work addresses the multiple-impacts behavior in dynamic compression and puncture impact conditions of bio-based agglomerated cork cores taking into account the effect of density and providing a meaningful comparison with more traditional petroleum-based foams. Despite the inherently higher mechanical properties of the PVC (polyvinyl chloride) foams, agglomerated cork demonstrated to provide a higher dimensional stability to the structure after repeated impacts thanks to its unique microstructure. With a reduction lower than 25% of its initial height after 10 impacts, agglomerated cork NL25 proved to be an exceptional alternative to the common HP130 foam, which undergoes a halving of its initial height after only 3 impacts, to obtain a more eco-friendly and performing sandwich composite

GeneCodis: interpreting gene lists through enrichment analysis and integration of diverse biological information

GeneCodis is a web server application for functional analysis of gene lists that integrates different sources of information and finds modular patterns of interrelated annotations. This integrative approach has proved to be useful for the interpretation of high-throughput experiments and therefore a new version of the system has been developed to expand its functionality and scope. GeneCodis now expands the functional information with regulatory patterns and user-defined annotations, offering the possibility of integrating all sources of information in the same analysis. Traditional singular enrichment is now permitted and more organisms and gene identifiers have been added to the database. The application has been re-engineered to improve performance, accessibility and scalability. In addition, GeneCodis can now be accessed through a public SOAP web services interface, enabling users to perform analysis from their own scripts and workflows. The application is freely available at http://genecodis.dacya.ucm.e

The X-Rays wind connection in PG 2112+059

We study the connection between the X-ray and UV properties of the broad absorption line (BAL) wind in the highly X-ray variable quasar PG 2112+059 by comparing Chandra-ACIS data with contemporaneous UV HST/STIS spectra in three different epochs. We observe a correlation whereby an increase in the equivalent-widths (EWs) of the BALs is accompanied by a redder UV spectrum. The growth in the BALs EWs is also accompanied by a significant dimming in soft X-ray emission (<2 keV), consistent with increased absorption. Variations in the hard X-ray emission (>2 keV) are only accompanied by minor spectral variations of the UV-BALs and do not show significant changes in the EW of BALs. These trends suggest a wind-shield scenario where the outflow inclination with respect to the line of sight is decreasing and/or the wind mass is increasing. These changes elevate the covering fraction and/or column densities of the BALs and are likely accompanied by a nearly contemporaneous increase in the column density of the shield.Comment: 15 pages, 9 figures, accepted in MNRA