In this Kelp paper, we present the development and testing of an optical-based sensor for monitoring the corrosion of reinforcement rebar.The testing was carried out using an 80% etched-cladding Fibre Bragg grating sensor to monitor the production of corrosion waste in a localized region of the rebar.Progression of corrosion can be sensed by observ
Melengkan is a special form of the Gayonese language which is spoken in poetry, lyrics, and proverbs.This study investigated its use as poetry specifically in wedding ceremonies held in Gayo, Aceh, Indonesia.The data was collected by observations and a video-recording of a traditional Gayonese wedding ceremony, as well as from interviews with melen
ABSTRACT For more than a century, diabetic patients have been considered immunosuppressed due to defects in phagocytosis and microbial killing.We confirmed that diabetic mice were hypersusceptible to bacteremia caused by Gram-negative bacteria (GNB), dying at inocula nonlethal to nondiabetic mice.Contrary to the pervasive paradigm that diabetes imp
The resource-oriented Petri net (ROPN) modeling method is applied in this paper to model a class of automated manufacturing systems (AMS) named disjunctive and strict single-type AMSs (DS-AMS), where multiple units of a single resource type are required to support a processing stage.This modeling method is more compact and intuitive than the existi