This October 5, 1998 Constructioneer article by Brian Fraley explains how R.A.M. Construction executed a record-breaking pile driving project in Dover, Delaware.
This cover story from the October 2000 edition of Constructioneer explains E.J. Breneman's cold in-place recycling process and how it was getting traction with local municipalities.
This cover story explains how heavy civil contractor Burke Construction conquered its first pile driving job using and RTG RG 19 T Piling Rig. This story also had one of Pile Buck Magazine's highest ever levels of engagement in the enewsletter.
The cover story for Rock Road Recycle tells the story of how Urban Foundation/Engineering used two BAUER BG Drilling Rigs from Equipment Corporation of America to conquer an underground boulder field in Brooklyn, N.Y. to make way for a high-profile tower.
This Piling Canada cover story reveals ECA's evolution from a World War I surplus equipment dealer to a global leader in specialty foundation equipment.
This 1921 brochure from Equipment Corporation of America (ECA) showcases the firm's manufacturing and rebuilding capabilities for construction and material handling equipment.
Featured in Vol. 33 No. 6 2017 of Pile Buck Magazine, this story focuses on the role of Deep Foundations Contractors' extensive fleet of BAUER Drilling Rigs on its Crosstown LRT project in downtown Toronto.
ECA is one of the first equipment distributors to participate in AED's Technician Certification Program. This article in CED Magazine explains how the move will benefit its customers.
This article in the December 20, 1999 issue of Constructioneer Magazine, explains how lifting equipment helped to transport and erect the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in 1999.
This cover story from the October 2000 edition of Constructioneer explains E.J. Breneman's cold in-place recycling process and how it was getting traction with local municipalities.
This cover story explains how heavy civil contractor Burke Construction conquered its first pile driving job using and RTG RG 19 T Piling Rig. This story also had one of Pile Buck Magazine's highest ever levels of engagement in the enewsletter.
The cover story for Rock Road Recycle tells the story of how Urban Foundation/Engineering used two BAUER BG Drilling Rigs from Equipment Corporation of America to conquer an underground boulder field in Brooklyn, N.Y. to make way for a high-profile tower.
This Piling Canada cover story reveals ECA's evolution from a World War I surplus equipment dealer to a global leader in specialty foundation equipment.
This 1921 brochure from Equipment Corporation of America (ECA) showcases the firm's manufacturing and rebuilding capabilities for construction and material handling equipment.
Featured in Vol. 33 No. 6 2017 of Pile Buck Magazine, this story focuses on the role of Deep Foundations Contractors' extensive fleet of BAUER Drilling Rigs on its Crosstown LRT project in downtown Toronto.
ECA is one of the first equipment distributors to participate in AED's Technician Certification Program. This article in CED Magazine explains how the move will benefit its customers.
This article in the December 20, 1999 issue of Constructioneer Magazine, explains how lifting equipment helped to transport and erect the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree in 1999.
This construction job story, "Keep on Boring," ran in the November 2017 issue of Foundation Drilling Magazine. It also ran in several American, Canadian, and European construction magazines.
This construction job story, "Deep Foundations Drill to Keep TBMs Crawling on Canada's Largest Transit Expansion," ran on the cover of Foundation Drilling Magazine. It also ran in several American, Canadian, and European construction magazines.
This advertorial for Pile Buck Magazine explains the Second Chance Line Restraint, an innovative crane safety product that prevents the snapping of overloaded hoisting lines. It appeared in Volume 33 No. 4 2017 issue of Pile Buck.
This column by then-Editor Brian M. Fraley addresses the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's (PennDOT) adoption of GPS-controlled surveying. It was featured in the Spring 2007 edition of Highway Builder, the official publication of the Associated Pennsylvania Constructors.
Cover story from the November 6, 2000 issue of Constructioneer on how Popple Construction used a fleet of 20 Cat earthmovers to move 2.6-million cubic yards of dirt in preparation for a Procter & Gamble warehouse in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
This cover story, featured in the May 2017 issue of Hard Hat News, explains how PKF-Mark IIII took a break from traditional pile driving methods to rent two RTG Pile Driving Rigs from Equipment Corporation of America for its PA Turnpike/I-95 Interchange Project in Bucks County, Pa. The switch paid off.
This story, featured on the cover of PileDriver Magazine's Issue 2, tells the story of a forward-thinking contractor that abandoned its traditional pile driving approach and took a gamble on two RTG Pile Driving Rigs from Equipment Corporation of America. The results were positive and drastically improved the firm's performance on a $142.9-million infrastructure project in Pennsylvania.
This story, featured in GeoDrilling International, explains how a forward-thinking contractor broke with tradition to install bridge foundations on the PA Turnpike/I-95 Connector Project in Pennsylvania. PKF Mark III historically relied on a crane-suspended pile hammer. Its decision to rent RTG pile driving rigs from Equipment Corporation of America (ECA) is paying off with doubled productivity, reduced labor, increased safety, and cost-savings.
This story, featured in Pile Buck Magazine, explains how a forward-thinking contractor broke with tradition to install bridge foundations on the PA Turnpike/I-95 Connector Project in Pennsylvania. PKF Mark III historically relied on a crane-suspended pile hammer. Its decision to rent RTG pile driving rigs from Equipment Corporation of America (ECA) is paying off with doubled productivity, reduced labor, increased safety, and cost-savings.
Fraley AEC Solutions Owner Brian Fraley and Pile Buck Magazine Editor Alex Smoot have a discussion in a Q&A format on the importance of marketing in the construction industry.
Walsh Construction rented two BAUER Drilling Rigs to replace a historic viaduct near Philadelphia. This story, published in Deep Foundations Magazine, details the many unique drilling challenges faced during this high-profile project.
Walsh Construction rented two BAUER Drilling Rigs from specialty foundation equipment supplier Equipment Corporation of America to overcome challenging subsurface conditions during the $89.9-million Crum Creek Viaduct Replacement project in Swarthmore, Pa. Story by Brian M. Fraley, Fraley AEC Solutions, LLC.
This in-depth feature story, feared in the January 2015 issue of Foundation Drilling Magazine, tells the story of three generations of the Kern family that have guided Specialty Foundation Equipment supplier Equipment Corporation of America toward a century in business.
This article by Brian M. Fraley, featured in the February 23, 2015 edition of The Zweig Letter, delves into the branding lessons to be learned from the famed WWII Battle of Iwo Jima.
This construction job story, "Keep on Boring," ran in the November 2017 issue of Foundation Drilling Magazine. It also ran in several American, Canadian, and European construction magazines.
This construction job story, "Deep Foundations Drill to Keep TBMs Crawling on Canada's Largest Transit Expansion," ran on the cover of Foundation Drilling Magazine. It also ran in several American, Canadian, and European construction magazines.
This advertorial for Pile Buck Magazine explains the Second Chance Line Restraint, an innovative crane safety product that prevents the snapping of overloaded hoisting lines. It appeared in Volume 33 No. 4 2017 issue of Pile Buck.
This column by then-Editor Brian M. Fraley addresses the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's (PennDOT) adoption of GPS-controlled surveying. It was featured in the Spring 2007 edition of Highway Builder, the official publication of the Associated Pennsylvania Constructors.
Cover story from the November 6, 2000 issue of Constructioneer on how Popple Construction used a fleet of 20 Cat earthmovers to move 2.6-million cubic yards of dirt in preparation for a Procter & Gamble warehouse in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
This cover story, featured in the May 2017 issue of Hard Hat News, explains how PKF-Mark IIII took a break from traditional pile driving methods to rent two RTG Pile Driving Rigs from Equipment Corporation of America for its PA Turnpike/I-95 Interchange Project in Bucks County, Pa. The switch paid off.
This story, featured on the cover of PileDriver Magazine's Issue 2, tells the story of a forward-thinking contractor that abandoned its traditional pile driving approach and took a gamble on two RTG Pile Driving Rigs from Equipment Corporation of America. The results were positive and drastically improved the firm's performance on a $142.9-million infrastructure project in Pennsylvania.
This story, featured in GeoDrilling International, explains how a forward-thinking contractor broke with tradition to install bridge foundations on the PA Turnpike/I-95 Connector Project in Pennsylvania. PKF Mark III historically relied on a crane-suspended pile hammer. Its decision to rent RTG pile driving rigs from Equipment Corporation of America (ECA) is paying off with doubled productivity, reduced labor, increased safety, and cost-savings.
This story, featured in Pile Buck Magazine, explains how a forward-thinking contractor broke with tradition to install bridge foundations on the PA Turnpike/I-95 Connector Project in Pennsylvania. PKF Mark III historically relied on a crane-suspended pile hammer. Its decision to rent RTG pile driving rigs from Equipment Corporation of America (ECA) is paying off with doubled productivity, reduced labor, increased safety, and cost-savings.
Fraley AEC Solutions Owner Brian Fraley and Pile Buck Magazine Editor Alex Smoot have a discussion in a Q&A format on the importance of marketing in the construction industry.
Walsh Construction rented two BAUER Drilling Rigs to replace a historic viaduct near Philadelphia. This story, published in Deep Foundations Magazine, details the many unique drilling challenges faced during this high-profile project.
Walsh Construction rented two BAUER Drilling Rigs from specialty foundation equipment supplier Equipment Corporation of America to overcome challenging subsurface conditions during the $89.9-million Crum Creek Viaduct Replacement project in Swarthmore, Pa. Story by Brian M. Fraley, Fraley AEC Solutions, LLC.
This in-depth feature story, feared in the January 2015 issue of Foundation Drilling Magazine, tells the story of three generations of the Kern family that have guided Specialty Foundation Equipment supplier Equipment Corporation of America toward a century in business.
This article by Brian M. Fraley, featured in the February 23, 2015 edition of The Zweig Letter, delves into the branding lessons to be learned from the famed WWII Battle of Iwo Jima.
The increased availability of biomedical data, particularly in the public domain, offers the opportunity to better understand human health and to develop effective therapeutics for a wide range of unmet medical needs. However, data scientists remain stymied by the fact that data remain hard to find and to productively reuse because data and their metadata i) are wholly inaccessible, ii) are in non-standard or incompatible representations, iii) do not conform to community standards, and iv) have unclear or highly restricted terms and conditions that preclude legitimate reuse. These limitations require a rethink on data can be made machine and AI-ready - the key motivation behind the FAIR Guiding Principles. Concurrently, while recent efforts have explored the use of deep learning to fuse disparate data into predictive models for a wide range of biomedical applications, these models often fail even when the correct answer is already known, and fail to explain individual predictions in terms that data scientists can appreciate. These limitations suggest that new methods to produce practical artificial intelligence are still needed.
In this talk, I will discuss our work in (1) building an integrative knowledge infrastructure to prepare FAIR and "AI-ready" data and services along with (2) neurosymbolic AI methods to improve the quality of predictions and to generate plausible explanations. Attention is given to standards, platforms, and methods to wrangle knowledge into simple, but effective semantic and latent representations, and to make these available into standards-compliant and discoverable interfaces that can be used in model building, validation, and explanation. Our work, and those of others in the field, creates a baseline for building trustworthy and easy to deploy AI models in biomedicine.
Bio
Dr. Michel Dumontier is the Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University, founder and executive director of the Institute of Data Science, and co-founder of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data principles. His research explores socio-technological approaches for responsible discovery science, which includes collaborative multi-modal knowledge graphs, privacy-preserving distributed data mining, and AI methods for drug discovery and personalized medicine. His work is supported through the Dutch National Research Agenda, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Horizon Europe, the European Open Science Cloud, the US National Institutes of Health, and a Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal Data Science and is internationally recognized for his contributions in bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and semantic technologies including ontologies and linked data.
Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
Monitor common gases, weather parameters, particulates.
Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic ...Sérgio Sacani
We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest
imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5 filters
spanning 0.4−0.9µm) and novel JWST images with 14 filters spanning 0.8−5µm, including 7 mediumband filters, and reaching total exposure times of up to 46 hours per filter. We combine all our data
at > 2.3µm to construct an ultradeep image, reaching as deep as ≈ 31.4 AB mag in the stack and
30.3-31.0 AB mag (5σ, r = 0.1” circular aperture) in individual filters. We measure photometric
redshifts and use robust selection criteria to identify a sample of eight galaxy candidates at redshifts
z = 11.5 − 15. These objects show compact half-light radii of R1/2 ∼ 50 − 200pc, stellar masses of
M⋆ ∼ 107−108M⊙, and star-formation rates of SFR ∼ 0.1−1 M⊙ yr−1
. Our search finds no candidates
at 15 < z < 20, placing upper limits at these redshifts. We develop a forward modeling approach to
infer the properties of the evolving luminosity function without binning in redshift or luminosity that
marginalizes over the photometric redshift uncertainty of our candidate galaxies and incorporates the
impact of non-detections. We find a z = 12 luminosity function in good agreement with prior results,
and that the luminosity function normalization and UV luminosity density decline by a factor of ∼ 2.5
from z = 12 to z = 14. We discuss the possible implications of our results in the context of theoretical
models for evolution of the dark matter halo mass function.
Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
show that a plume deposit from a powerful eruption at Pillan Patera has covered part
of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
optics at visible wavelengths.
Slide 1: Title Slide
Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Slide 2: Introduction to Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Definition: Extrachromosomal inheritance refers to the transmission of genetic material that is not found within the nucleus.
Key Components: Involves genes located in mitochondria, chloroplasts, and plasmids.
Slide 3: Mitochondrial Inheritance
Mitochondria: Organelles responsible for energy production.
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in mitochondria.
Inheritance Pattern: Maternally inherited, meaning it is passed from mothers to all their offspring.
Diseases: Examples include Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and mitochondrial myopathy.
Slide 4: Chloroplast Inheritance
Chloroplasts: Organelles responsible for photosynthesis in plants.
Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA): Circular DNA molecule found in chloroplasts.
Inheritance Pattern: Often maternally inherited in most plants, but can vary in some species.
Examples: Variegation in plants, where leaf color patterns are determined by chloroplast DNA.
Slide 5: Plasmid Inheritance
Plasmids: Small, circular DNA molecules found in bacteria and some eukaryotes.
Features: Can carry antibiotic resistance genes and can be transferred between cells through processes like conjugation.
Significance: Important in biotechnology for gene cloning and genetic engineering.
Slide 6: Mechanisms of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Non-Mendelian Patterns: Do not follow Mendel’s laws of inheritance.
Cytoplasmic Segregation: During cell division, organelles like mitochondria and chloroplasts are randomly distributed to daughter cells.
Heteroplasmy: Presence of more than one type of organellar genome within a cell, leading to variation in expression.
Slide 7: Examples of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Four O’clock Plant (Mirabilis jalapa): Shows variegated leaves due to different cpDNA in leaf cells.
Petite Mutants in Yeast: Result from mutations in mitochondrial DNA affecting respiration.
Slide 8: Importance of Extrachromosomal Inheritance
Evolution: Provides insight into the evolution of eukaryotic cells.
Medicine: Understanding mitochondrial inheritance helps in diagnosing and treating mitochondrial diseases.
Agriculture: Chloroplast inheritance can be used in plant breeding and genetic modification.
Slide 9: Recent Research and Advances
Gene Editing: Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 are being used to edit mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA.
Therapies: Development of mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) for preventing mitochondrial diseases.
Slide 10: Conclusion
Summary: Extrachromosomal inheritance involves the transmission of genetic material outside the nucleus and plays a crucial role in genetics, medicine, and biotechnology.
Future Directions: Continued research and technological advancements hold promise for new treatments and applications.
Slide 11: Questions and Discussion
Invite Audience: Open the floor for any questions or further discussion on the topic.
Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.