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At times of fruit skin failure, reticulation made of a wound-periderm is formed below the cracked skin in order to seal the damaged tissue. Preceding investigations shed light on the mechanisms underlying the formation of fruit skin reticulation, dem...

Reticulate pigmentary disorders (RPDs) are a group of inherited and acquired skin conditions characterized by hyperpigmented and/or hypopigmented macules. Inherited RPDs include dyschromatosis symmetrica hereditaria (DSH), dyschromatosis universalis...

In recent years, porous ceramics have been increasingly developed owing to their high levels of high-temperature stability and chemical stability. These properties are far superior to porous polymers and porous metals. As a representative porous cera...

Porous ceramics have separation/collection (open pore) and heat-shielding/sound-absorbing (closed pore) characteristics not found in conventional dense ceramics, increasing their industrial importance along with dense ceramics. Reticulated porous cer...

The damage identification of a reticulated shell is a challenging task, facing various difficulties, such as the large number of degrees of freedom (DOFs), the phenomenon of modal localization and transition, and low modeling accuracy. Based on struc...

In recent years, there has been growing interest in porous ceramics in many research areas given their superior thermal and chemical resistance capabilities, unlike porous metals and porous polymers. Among the various types of porous ceramics, reticu...

Porous ceramics have attracted researchers due to their high chemical and thermal stability. Among various types of porous ceramics, reticulated porous ceramics have both high porosity and good permeability. These properties of porous ceramics are di...

Reticulated porous ceramics have attracted researchers owing to the separation and collection properties of porous materials and the combined high thermal resistance and chemical stability of ceramics. Among various kinds of reticulated porous cerami...

With the rapid development of architectural technology, long-span structures have been widely used due to their vast interior space and beautiful architectural composition. Due to the characteristics and high costs of coating materials on large steel...

Recently, porous ceramics have received much attention from researchers because of their excellent thermal and chemical stabilities compared to their counterparts (such as porous polymers and metals), despite their inferior mechanical instability. Am...

Porous ceramics have been extensively investigated because of their high-temperature and chemical stabilities, which are far superior to those of porous polymers and porous metals, despite their mechanical instability. Among various kinds of porous c...

This paper focuses on the response of reticulated shell structures under oblique impact loads, with a departure from the traditional emphasis on vertical impact loads. These structures are typically utilised in large-span spaces such as iconic buildi...

The DSC method has been employed to monitor the kinetics of reticulation ofaqueous polyurethane systems without catalysts, and with the commercial catalyst of zirconium(CAT®XC-6212) and the highly selective manganese catalyst, the complex Mn(III)-dia...

As large-span structures, reticulated shells are widely used in large-scale public building and act as emergency shelters in the event of sudden disasters. However, spatial reticulated shells are dynamic-sensitive structures; the effect of the initia...

In recent years, there have been more and more engineering examples of installing giant suspended equipment (e.g., central suspended LED display) in large-span space structures; however, there are fewer studies on the seismic response and strong-seis...

For a long time, spatial structures have been widely used. However, compared with the high strength of their material, their stability is weak, and especially sensitive to damage and defects. This feature has increased the engineering industry’...

Aluminum alloy offers the advantages of being lightweight, high in strength, corrosion-resistant, and easy to process. It has a promising application prospect in large-span space structures, with its primary application form being single-layer reticu...

Single-layer reticulated shell structures are widely used, but their stability performance is not ideal. Moreover, they are sensitive to structural damage and imperfections, while the existing conventional design methods of increasing the cross-secti...

In recent years, earthquake disasters have seriously damaged nonstructural components, so it is necessary to study their seismic performance. However, the existing scholarly research mainly concentrates on multistorey and high-rise buildings, and the...

Damage to nonstructural components, such as air ducts, in buildings during earthquakes, which are more fragile than single-layer reticulated domes, has a significant impact on the sustainability of the building’s functionality. To study the cou...

In view of the problems of rapid construction and deformation control of large cross-section tunnels in complex urban environments, the concept of “timely high-strength support” was put forward to form strong support over time and bear th...

Regarding the effect of the initial geometric defect (IGD) on the static stability of single-layer reticulated shells, its distribution pattern and magnitude are the main concerns to researchers. However, the suitable selection of the initial geometr...

Variation, adaptation, heredity and fitness, constraints and affordances, speciation, and extinction form the building blocks of the (Neo-)Darwinian research program, and several of these have been called “Darwinian principles”. Here, we...

Automatic acquisition of the canopy volume parameters of the Citrus reticulate Blanco cv. Shatangju tree is of great significance to precision management of the orchard. This research combined the point cloud deep learning algorithm with the volume c...

Steel smelting and production produces a large amount of exhaust gas, which is damaging to the environment. Prestressed spatial arch-supported partial single-layer reticulated shells (PSASPSRSs) are introduced to promote sustainable development in th...

The new method for the determination of the dynamic characteristics of reticulated domes is proposed. Reticulated domes are built of composite rods. Each rod contains two layers made of elastic and viscoelastic materials, respectively. The viscoelast...

The seismic performance of a single-layer spherical reticulated shell is the key problem to be solved in the design and analysis of this structure. In previous studies, the influences of roofing systems on the seismic performance of shells were usual...

Reticulated platelets (RP) are the youngest platelet fraction released into the circulation. These immature platelets have increased RNA content, a larger cell volume, more dense granules, higher levels of surface activation markers and are thought t...

Reticulated acanthoma with sebaceous differentiation (RASD) is a rare, benign cutaneous neoplasm. Its variable clinical presentation frequently mimics both benign and malignant entities, posing a significant diagnostic challenge. We report a case of...

Introduction: Endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) and reticulated platelets (RP) have central roles in the thrombotic and angiogenetic interactions during ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). The EPC and RP response in patients with STEMI treat...

Reticulated platelets (RPs) are young thrombocytes, newly released from the bone marrow. The identification and quantification of these cells remained difficult for decades due to a lack of standardized preanalytical and analytical methods. With the...

The Pteris cadieri complex displays extensive morphological variation and seems to have originated through hybridization. However, the members of this complex reproduce by apogamy, which usually limits genetic variation. To evaluate the hypotheses of...

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a malignant plasma cell disorder characterized by the accumulation of abnormal plasma cells in the bone marrow. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and reticulated platelets (RPs) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of MM. Thi...

Triaxial suction-controlled relaxation tests were performed on unsaturated reticulated red clay from a highway cut slope to quantify the coupled influence of matric suction (50–200 kPa), net confining pressure (100–300 kPa), and axial str...

Reticulated porous ceramic (RPC) made of ceria are promising structures used in solar thermochemical redox cycles for splitting CO2 and H2O. They feature dual-scale porosity with mm-size pores for effective radiative heat transfer during reduction an...

This study presents a systematic approach to engineering the electron transport layer (ETL) in perovskite solar cells using a spray deposition technique to fabricate sequentially compact and mesoporous titanium dioxide (c-TiO2, m-TiO2) films. The spr...

The current output of an anodic bioelectrochemical system (BES) depends upon the extracellular electron transfer (EET) rate from electricigens to the electrodes. Thus, investigation of EET mechanisms between electricigens and solid electrodes is esse...

This study proposes an improved mixed-variable quantum particle swarm optimization (QPSO) algorithm capable of optimizing both continuous and discrete variables. The algorithm is applied to the wind resistance optimization of a cable-stiffened, singl...

Background/Objectives: Immature platelet fraction (IPF) and reticulated platelets (RPs) are biomarkers reflecting the youngest and most metabolically active platelets in circulation. RPs, a subset of immature platelets, contain residual RNA and have...

Increased platelet activity is a risk factor of thrombotic events in cardiovascular patients. We studied the relationship between platelet function, platelet size, and the content of reticulated platelets (RP) in patients with coronary heart disease...

Poncirin is a bitter flavanone glycoside with various biological activities. Poncirin was isolated from four different tissues (flavedo, albedo, segment membrane, and juice sac) of Ougan fruit (Citrus reticulate cv. Suavissima). The highest content o...

To solve the technical problems of slow construction progress, low mechanization and high risk of shallow buried large cross-section tunnels in a complex urban environment, a series of spatial reticulated shell (SRS) support structures are developed...

Optimization methods tailored for practical engineering applications continue to evolve in order to realize lightweight single-layer reticulated shell structures and maximize node stiffness. This paper takes the minimum amount of steel as the objecti...

The effect of the polymeric reticulation on the thermal stability of the piezoelectricity of a micro-structured PDMS piezo-electret was investigated. This new family of flexible piezoelectric materials with very low Young’s modulus is used for wearab...

Two types of alginates, AlgLF and AlgP, were used in this study to produce alginate beads by electro-vibratory extrusion. AlgLF and AlgP exhibited different Mannuronate/Guluronate (M/G) ratios and molecular weights as measured by NMR and SEC-MALS. Th...

Soft-tissue fillers made of hyaluronic acid and combined with lidocaine have recently become a popular tool in aesthetic medicine. Several manufacturers have developed their own proprietary formulae with varying manufacturing tools, concentrations, c...

In this paper, a single-layer lamella reticulated dome with reinforced concrete bearings was studied, and a method of column-top isolation was proposed to improve the seismic performance of the whole structure, thereby avoiding too large support stif...

This article presents the effect of the addition of condensed tannins, used as a reticulation agent, on the polymerization of furfuryl alcohol during wood furfurylation, as well as the effect of these condensed tannins on the thermal stability of mod...

A blind super-resolution network with dual-channel attention is proposed for images captured by the 0.37 mm diameter sub-millimeter fiberscope. The fiberscope can used in scenarios where other image acquisition devices cannot be applied based on its...

Evolution is reticulate. Reticulation increases diversity and complexity on the different levels of the evolutionary hierarchy. In addition to the tendency for diversity and complexity to increase in unchecked evolutionary systems by ongoing divergen...