Serum uric acid as a marker of microvascular damage in systemic sclerosis patients [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Microvascular damage of skin and internal organs is a hallmark of systemic sclerosis (SSc). Serum uric acid (UA) represents a marker of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction.
Amoroso, Antonio +9 more
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Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022 ObjectivesTo associate prognostic factors present at diagnosis with damage accrual in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) patients.MethodsWe designed a cohort study of eligible children age 16 or younger who fulfilled the 1997 American ...
Ana Luisa Rodríguez-Lozano +4 more
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Seismic risk in the city of Al Hoceima (north of Morocco) using the vulnerability index method, applied in Risk-UE project [PDF]
, 2017 The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2566-8Al Hoceima is one of the most seismic active regions in north of Morocco.
A Coburn +25 more
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Analysis of the Effect of Mainshock-Aftershock Sequences on the Fragility of RC Bridge Columns
Buildings, 2022 The mainshock (MS) is often accompanied by a number of aftershocks (AS). The existence of AS may cause the seismic demand to be greater than the MS. In order to better evaluate the impact of AS, this paper takes RC columns as the research object and ...
Tongxing Wang +3 more
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Health monitoring of web plastifying dampers subjected to cyclic loading through vibration tests [PDF]
, 2014 This article investigates experimentally the application of health monitoring techniques to assess the damage on a particular kind of hysteretic (metallic) damper called web plastifying dampers, which are subjected to cyclic loading.
Benavent Climent, Amadeo +3 more
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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Historical Masonry Buildings in Croatian Coastal Area
Applied Sciences, 2021 (1) Background: The protection of built heritage in historic cities located in seismically active areas is of great importance for the safety of inhabitants.
Željana Nikolić +3 more
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Large amplitude vibrations and damage detection of rectangular plates [PDF]
, 2008 In this work, geometrically nonlinear vibrations of fully clamped rectangular plates are used to study the sensitivity of some nonlinear vibration response parameters to the presence of damage.
Manoach, Emil, Trendafilova, I.
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Hysteretic Behavior of Steel Reinforced Concrete Columns Based on Damage Analysis
Applied Sciences, 2019 With the aim to model the seismic behavior of steel reinforced concrete (SRC) frame columns, in this research, hysteresis and skeleton curves were obtained based on the damage test results of SRC frame columns under low cyclic repeat loading and the ...
Bin Wang +3 more
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Applied Sciences, 2023 In order to understand the seismic damage assessment of reinforced concrete column members, the coupling relationship between the capacity degradation and the accumulated hysteretic energy and the displacement history was considered.
Yukui Wang +3 more
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Angiogenic and angiostatic factors in renal scleroderma-associated vasculopathy [PDF]
, 2017 BACKGROUND: The angiogenesis in systemic sclerosis (SSc) is impaired. An imbalance of pro-angiogenic factors and angiogenesis inhibitors has been implicated in the progression of peripheral microvascular damage, defective vascular repair and fibrosis ...
Afeltra, Antonella M. Vittoria +7 more
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