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Ultra-High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete, unlike conventional concrete, shows a remarkable tensile strength which is paramount for guaranteeing the crack resistance and durability. However, tensile tests on UHPFRC are not widely employed due to the difficulty to guarantee uniform tensile stress during the entire loading. To overcome this difficulty, the UHPFRC tensile law is more often estimated from Four Point Bending Test (4PBT) by inverse analysis under simplified hypotheses. ...
En réponse aux problèmes opérationnels, techniques et commerciaux inhérents à la navigation dans les passages arctiques qui contraignent un grand nombre d'armateurs, un nouveau modèle d’affaires semble avoir émergé dans la région arctique et subarctique, basé sur d'éventuels projets de hubs portuaires de transbordement. Plus précisément, les hubs seraient accessibles par tous types de navires, impliquant qu'une entreprise dont la flotte et l’équipage ne respecteraient pas les normes d...
Pork meat is in high demand worldwide and this is expected to increase. Pork is often raised in intensive conditions, which is conducive to the spread of infectious diseases. Vaccines, antibiotics, and other biosafety measures help mitigate the impact of infectious diseases. However, bacterial strains resistant to antibiotics are more and more frequently found in pig farms, animals, and the environment. It is now recognized that a holistic perspective is needed to sustainably fight antibiotic...
This study aimed to characterise the quality of meat from commercially-raised rabbits. Animals came from five different producers and were slaughtered in three different plants under provincial or federal inspection jurisdiction. Animal behaviour evaluated by scan sampling prior to feed withdrawal (FW) and transport, as well as blood lactate concentration at exsanguination, did not raise concerns with respect to stress. Stomach pH was higher (P=0.047) when the FW time was short (≤13.5 h), at ...