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Aggregates for Concrete and Asphaltic Mixes
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2023
Source: Roberto Leon, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Concrete and asphalt are by far the most common construction materials used today. Concrete is a composite material consisting of cement, water, air, coarse aggregate, and fine aggregates. Fine aggregates are typically sands and coarse aggregates are natural or crushed rocks. Chemical admixtures to modify certain specific properties are also commonly used (i.e., superplasticizers to make the...
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Automating Aggregate Quantification in Caenorhabditis elegans
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2021
The following protocol describes the development and optimization of a high-throughput workflow for worm culturing, fluorescence imaging, and automated image processing to quantify polyglutamine aggregates as an assessment of changes in proteostasis.
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Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: A Brief Introduction
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2026
The aggregate demand and aggregate supply model is used to understand how the economy behaves over time. It shows how changes in overall spending and production affect total output and prices. This model helps explain periods of growth and slowdown in a simple way.Aggregate demand is the total amount of goods and services people, firms, governments, and foreign buyers are willing to buy at different price levels. When prices fall, people can buy more with the same income, leading to higher...
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Methods to Study Changes in Inherent Protein Aggregation with Age in Caenorhabditis elegans
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2017
The goal of the method presented here is to explore protein aggregation during normal aging in the model organism C. elegans. The protocol represents a powerful tool to study the highly insoluble large aggregates that form with age and to determine how changes in proteostasis impact protein aggregation.
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In Vitro Aggregation Assays Using Hyperphosphorylated Tau Protein
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2015
Unmodified and hyperphosphorylated tau proteins were used in two in vitro aggregation assays to reveal the hyperphosphorylation-dependent fast aggregation kinetics. These assays pave the way for future screens for compounds that can modulate the propensity of hyperphosphorylated tau to form fibrils that underlie the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Formation depends on directional bias in how constituent units interact or move. Preferential joining along one axis can extend a cluster, while flow, confinement, or an applied field can align or reshape an initially disordered assembly. These mechanisms matter because they determine whether elongation develops during aggregation or emerges from later processing, affecting the final structure.
Anisotropic geometry changes how aggregates occupy space and interact with surrounding material. A greater length-to-width difference can influence packing arrangement, transport pathways, sedimentation behavior, flow resistance, and mechanical response. These effects connect particle-scale shape to engineering-scale performance, so geometry is a design variable rather than merely a descriptive feature.
Compared with compact aggregates, elongated structures present a different distribution of length, width, and orientation. That geometric distinction can alter packing, transport, sedimentation, flow resistance, and mechanical behavior. The comparison helps engineers determine whether a material's bulk response reflects particle interactions alone or the directional organization created during assembly.
Elongated Aggregates can change as processing conditions or external influences alter alignment or structural persistence. Researchers therefore examine dimensions, orientation, and stability together rather than relying on shape alone. Stability indicates whether the anisotropic structure is maintained, while orientation shows how consistently units point in a common direction, providing distinct information about the assembly.
A practical characterization workflow is to quantify aggregate dimensions, record orientation, and assess stability. These measurements provide complementary information: dimensions describe shape, orientation captures directional organization, and stability indicates persistence of that structure. Comparing these descriptors with bulk packing, transport, sedimentation, flow resistance, or mechanical behavior helps identify structure-performance relationships.
Their engineering relevance spans suspensions, composites, and particulate materials, where aggregate geometry can influence bulk behavior. In suspensions, important outcomes include transport, sedimentation, and flow resistance; in composites and other particulate systems, packing and mechanical behavior become central. Studying the same structural descriptors across these settings supports application-specific material design.
Characterization supports optimization by linking observed dimensions, orientation, and stability to the performance of the engineered system. If processing conditions produce a desired structural state, researchers can compare its effects on packing, transport, sedimentation, flow resistance, or mechanical behavior. This structure-performance connection helps select conditions that improve the targeted bulk response without treating aggregate shape in isolation.