Improving the durability and sustainability of concrete structures has been driving the enormous number of research papers on self-healing mechanisms that have been published in the past decades. The vast developments of ...

Fractures have a great impact on health all around the world and with fracture healing optimization; this problem could be resolved partially. To make a practical contribution to this issue, the knowledge of bone tissue, ...

A damage-plasticity constitutive theory for zero-thickness interfaces is presented aimed at predicting time-dependent self-healing phenomena in concrete. The material model is based on fracture-energy concepts and accounts ...

The study of palaeopathology provides valuable information about injury and behaviour in extinct organisms. Appendicular pathologies are interesting as they directly affect mobility and therefore the ability of an animal ...

Pure metals and their alloys are used to partially or completely restore bone fractures. Biodegradable metals emerged as promising candidates for fracture fixation devices since they are able to self-degrade in the body ...

Long-term Diabetes mellitus can induce osteopenia, osteoporosis, an increase in the incidence of low-stress fractures and/or delayed fracture healing. Strontium ranelate (SrR) is a dual-action anti-osteoporotic agent whose ...

Introduction: Root fracture during extraction is not uncommon due to the presence of multiple and thin roots, which are often divergent and curved. The retained root fragments (RF) are usually radiographic incidental ...

Commerson’s dolphins Cephalorhynchus c. commersonii are the small cetacean most frequently found stranded along the coast of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, but little is known about their pathologies. We examined the postcranial ...

Hydrocarbon and aqueous fluid inclusions in quartz and anhydrite cements in sandstones and carbonates in the upper part of the Yacoraite Formation (Upper Cretaceous) were studied in wells in the Lomas de Olmedo Sub-basin, ...