To investigate whether shallow hinge joint fracture was caused by shear stress or flexural stress, during the demolition and reconstruction of Xiaojiang River bridge, two original girders were collected and shipped to the lab, and the shallow hinge joint between the two girders was rebuilt.Tests were performed to investigate the cracking load, fail
Exon-primed intron-crossing (EPIC) markers as a tool for ant phylogeography.Due to their local abundance, diversity of adaptations and worldwide distribution, ants are a classic example of adaptive radiation.Despite this evolutionary and ecological importance, phylogeographical studies on ants have relied largely on mitochondrial markers.In this st
Linguistic variation is a feature that characterizes every natural language.In this paper, ORG RAW ALMONDS I focus on linguistic variation and its importance and its role in language change (LC).To determine its importance and role, one must distinguish between emergence and diffusion of variants because both dimensions provide different contributi
Relationships between language and music have always been lively and dynamic, from their syncretic unity in rituals, to setting text to music, verbal accounts of musical works, musicalization of literature, to abundance of linguistic and literary metaphors in discourse about music.Both language and music unfold in time; both possess a hierarchy of