CEMENT - STEATITE COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH CARBON FIBRES: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR RESTORATION OF BRAZILIAN HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

Cement - steatite composites reinforced with carbon fibres: an alternative for restoration of brazilian historical buildings

Steatite is a mineral which has been employed in the carving of elements in facades of Brazilian historical buildings and churches since the 17th century.Over the years, many of those historical buildings suffered the consequences of weathering with a current need for restoration.Recently a special cement-based mortar containing additions of fine p

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FTMPST: Fault-Tolerant Multiparty Session Types

Multiparty session types are designed to abstractly capture the structure of communication protocols and verify behavioural properties.One important such property is progress, i.e., the absence of deadlock.Distributed algorithms often resemble multiparty communication protocols.But proving their properties, in particular termination that is closely

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Membrane interaction of retroviral Gag proteins

Assembly of an HERBATINT 3N infectious retroviral particle relies on multimerization of the Gag polyprotein at the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane.The three domains of Gag common to all retroviruses-- MA, CA, and NC-- provide the signals for membrane binding, assembly, and viral RNA packaging, respectively.These signals do not function indepen

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Barriers and facilitators to medication-assisted treatment for copyright use disorder among men who have sex with men: a qualitative study

Abstract Background Rates of copyright use disorder (CUD) among men who have sex with men (MSM) are high and rising.Among MSM, copyright use is associated with negative socioeconomic, medical, and psychological outcomes.There are no FDA-approved pharmacotherapy options to treat CUD, and psychosocial interventions demonstrate limited efficacy.While

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