Alexis Ponder, Millie D LongDepartment of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USAAbstract: Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including both Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, are disorders of chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract marked by episodes of relapse and remission.Over the past several decades,
Abstract The current research on the integrity of critical structures of rail vehicles mainly focuses on the design stage, which needs an effective method for assessing the service state.This paper proposes a framework for predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of in-service structures with and without visible cracks.The hypothetical distributi
The pervading paradigm in insect phenology models is that the response to a given temperature does not vary within a life stage.The developmental rate functions that have been developed for general use, or for specific insects, have for the most part been temperature-dependent but not age-dependent, except where age is an ordinal variable designati
Upper Permian rocks of the former supercontinent Gondwana record climax late Paleozoic terrestrial vertebrate faunas that were dominated numerically and ecologically by therapsid synapsids.Older faunal elements of earlier Paleozoic faunas, sophie allport zebra such as captorhinid reptiles, are rare and scattered components of the first amniote faun