Accelerated bridge construction (ABC) utilizes rigorous planning, new technologies, and improved methods to expedite construction. Prefabricated columns and their connections to adjoining bridge members (cap beams, footings, pile caps, and pile shafts) are the most critical components of ABC in moderate- and high-seismic regions. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 935: Proposed AASHTO Seismic Specifications for ABC Column Connections develops AASHTO specificatio...

Zdá se, že pandemie COVID 19 ustupuje. Lidem otrnulo a už se objevují logické otázky, kdo zaplatí vzniklé škody nejen podnikatelům, ale i dalším subjektům. Paleta poškozených se stále rozšiřuje a není skoro hodiny, aby v mediích nevystoupil někdo z poškozených láteřící, že na něj vláda zapomněla anebo že pomoc přichází pomalu. Někdy oprávněně, někdy spíše vykutáleně.

"America's Funniest Home Videos" will resume the remainder of season 30 the following week at 7:00/6:00c.

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Curing HIV infection will require the elimination of a reservoir of infected CD4+ T cells that persists despite HIV-specific cytotoxic T cell (CTL) responses. Although viral latency is a critical factor in this persistence, recent evidence also suggests a role for intrinsic resistance of reservoir-harboring cells to CTL killing. This resistance may have contributed to negative outcomes of clinical trials, where pharmacologic latency reversal has thus far failed to drive reductions in HIV reservoirs. Through transcriptional profiling, we herein identified overexpression of the prosurvival factor B cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2) as a distinguishing feature of CD4+ T cells that survived CTL killing. We show that the inducible HIV reservoir was disproportionately present in BCL-2hi subsets in ex vivo CD4+ T cells. Treatment with the BCL-2 antagonist ABT-199 was not sufficient to drive reductions in ex vivo viral reservoirs when tested either alone or with a latency-reversing agent (LRA). However, the triple combination of strong LRAs, HIV-specific T cells, and a BCL-2 antagonist uniquely enabled the depletion of ex vivo viral reservoirs. Our results provide rationale for novel therapeutic approaches targeting HIV cure and, more generally, suggest consideration of BCL-2 antagonism as a means of enhancing CTL immunotherapy in other settings, such as cancer.

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Digital video consumption is viral and, according to a new study released today by IBM and International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), more than half of the 21,000 consumers surveyed are using mobiles every day to watch streaming videos, and that number is expected to grow 45 percent in the next three years.

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Playing to 130,000 online, with a virtual tip jar: Performers adapt to life under coronavirus  ABC News

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3. Mother's Day state by state: What can and can't you do?  The Canberra Times
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Carers should spend at least 30 minutes on home visits to older people as part of a new gold standard for services, according to new guidance.

I was down to cook lunch on Sunday but there was so much food left over after the Braai I had a very easy job I did help Remi make veggie tempura for supper which we deep fried once in the afternoon then refried after the evenings survey. As it was Re

A memo to the newsroom from Editor Davan Maharaj and Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin: We're delighted to announce that Mark Porubcansky, a mainstay of the foreign desk for the last 14 years, is the new foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times.

Bears, bobcats and other critters are roaming free in California's most popular national park, closed to visitors since March 20

Cool webcams, like the one showing Old Faithful eruptions in Yellowstone, let you visit national parks from home.

UCLA coach Mick Cronin has been selected the National Assn. of Basketball Coaches District 19 coach of the year, it was announced Monday.

Jeff Shell, whose 'Trolls World Tour' comments upset theater owners, reaffirms that digital releases will be part of Universal Pictures' new reality.

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BBC WEATHER has forecast temperatures of up to 25C as Brits celebrate VE day but by Sunday, conditions will drastically change as stormy downpours washout the UK.

BBC Weather have forecasted a rapid plummet in temperature due to Arctic winds after a bout of heavy rain and thunderstorms on Sunday.

THE FREEZING plunge in temperatures over the next 24 hours even sparked disbelief from the meteorologist on BBC Breakfast, who warned that Britain could go from its warmest day of the year on Saturday to being hit by snow on Sunday.

STEPH MCGOVERN - who fronts her self-titled show The Steph Show on Channel 4 - made a cheeky admission on Twitter as her former BBC Breakfast co-star Bill Turnbull reacted to the presenter's "drunk" confession.

Đài BBC chọn cách phát thanh các chương trình hài hước châm biếm Đức Quốc Xã vào lãnh thổ Đức trong nỗ lực đối trọng cỗ máy tuyên truyền của Hitler.

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Both major parties complain about the BBC. They always have and they always will. On the one hand, they both demand impartiality - which means criticism where it is justified - and then complain bitterly when they are criticised.

In NBC Sports' 'Racing Week in America', IndyCar fans will get to see some of the most exciting races from the series' last decade.

In its first shot at an esports broadcast on cable TV, IndyCar produced viewership numbers in line with latest esports trends.

Despite working in three different states, Leigh Diffey, Townsend Bell and Paul Tracy have IndyCar's iRacing events looking and sounding close to normal.

For all HSBC's mutterings that it's fed up with having the UK as its home base - because of the incremental tax it pays here and what it perceives as an anti-bank climate - there is no evidence from today's strategy review that it is growing any cooler on having a big presence in the UK.

In fact, if anything, the opposite is implied by its assessment of where best to allocate its capital and expertise over the coming decade. The UK is categorised by HSBC as a "strategic market", which is HSBC's highest accolade, partly because it has a massive presence in retail banking here and partly because it wants to be "the UK's leading bank for international businesses".

Interestingly, and in spite of the superior growth rates of emerging economies, HSBC expects the UK to still be the sixth largest economy in the world in 2050, only a fraction smaller than Germany, but bigger than Brazil, Mexico and France.

The British economy is expected by HSBC to grow faster than the US, Japan, and France over the coming 40 years - and a bit slower than Germany (but, of course, massively slower than China, India, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey). Some of that British momentum, compared to the eurozone and Japan for example, is presumably due to an expected faster rate of population growth in the UK - which is not universally popular.

But even so, income per capita in the UK in 2050 is predicted to be $49,000, 6.5% below German income per head and almost 20% greater than French per capita income.

For HSBC, the important trends are expected annual growth of world trade of 8.9% in the coming 10 years and the persistence of huge financial imbalances between the saving and exporting nations (China, India, Germany, and so on) and the consuming and borrowing nations (the US and much of Europe).

Interestingly, HSBC expects the UK to be a rare example of a country moving from deficit into surplus, by 2020 (or rather it buys into the analysis of the consultants McKinsey and the World Economic Forum to that effect - although there is a bit of a mystery here, because HSBC attributes the forecast to McKinsey, but it's not in the relevant McKinsey document).

The point, for HSBC, of analysing the world in these terms is that it wants to be the leader in financing those swelling trade flows between emerging economies and developed ones, and also in the related businesses of shipping China's and India's and Taiwan's surplus capital to the US and Europe.

Which means that what it calls Global Banking and Markets (and others call investment banking) together with its Commercial Banking arm will be the focus of future expansion.

That looks rational for one of the world's genuinely global banks. But it is slightly disturbing for the rest of us, perhaps, because the bank is assuming that the leaders of the G20 most powerful economies will fail in their avowed aim of stabilising the global economy by reducing China's funding surplus and America's funding deficit, the imbalances that were a fundamental cause of the great crash of 2007-8.

HSBC's success in that sense seems in part to be predicated on the idea that the global financial economy won't become a much safer place.

Like all sensible businesses, HSBC say it will reallocate capital to where it sees superior growth or where it has substantial market shares. So it will only stay in retail banking in places, like the UK for example, where it is big enough to be a price leader, rather than a follower.

The new chief executive, Stuart Gulliver, recognises that current returns are too low, partly because the bank's running costs are too high. So it plans to reduce annual costs by between $2.5bn and $3.5bn over the next three years - though it hasn't said how.

There is one cost that particularly rankles with HSBC - the special banking levy imposed by the British government. What it finds particularly galling, I am told, is that it pays the levy on uninsured deposits outside the UK, which most would see as a stable form of funding that contributes to the perception of HSBC as being a relatively safe bank.

Given that Treasury said the levy was designed in part to encourage banks to finance themselves in a more prudent way, it is a bit odd that the levy is costing HSBC around £370m this year, almost exactly the same as Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays, and £110m more than Lloyds, in spite of HSBC's funding arrangements being widely seen to be much more prudent and stable than those of the other UK banks.

It is perhaps understandable therefore that HSBC hopes the Treasury will look again at the structure of the levy. Although - as I've said and elucidated before - HSBC's not-very-veiled threat to leave the UK if the levy isn't reformed doesn't look credible.

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