Industrial infrastructures may be subjected to severe damage by strong winds, storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes.For instance, the two hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, in the Gulf of Mexico (United States) resulted in multiple damages to approximately 611 industrial equipment such as offshore platforms, oil pipelines, and storage tanks.This type
Abstract One of the most important questions in evolutionary biology is how the spatial distribution of species is limited.Asymmetric gene flow from core populations is suggested to increase the number of poorly adapted immigrants in the populations at the range edge.Genetic load due to migration, i.e., migration load, should prevent adaptation to
The South-to-North Water Diversion Project (SNWDP) is a megaproject which has been constructed to alleviate imbalanced water resource distribution between northern and southern China.It encompasses three routes distributed in the east, central, and west of China, respectively.The central route (CR) of the SNWDP starts from the Danjiangkou Reservoir
The formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) is a strategy utilized by neutrophils for capturing infective agents.Extracellular traps consist in a physical net made of DNA and intracellular proteins externalized from neutrophils, where bacteria and viruses are entrapped and killed by proteolysis.A complex series of events contributes to a