The paper features the history of shaping the state border between the USA and Mexico in the XIX century in the context of the US foreign policy as well as the history of colonization of the territories which now make up the borderland region of present-day Mexico and the USA.The main trend of American foreign policy in the XIX century was continen
The development of the DOTS Expansion Plan has been a milestone in tuberculosis (TB) control at the global and national levels.Key challenges that remain are overcoming the weakness of a strategy built on case management, sustaining commitment, competing Carbon Steel TIG Rod priorities, the threat of HIV, maintaining high quality Headband of care a
A novel semi analytical method is developed for transient analysis of single-lap adhesive joints with laminated composite adherends subjected to dynamical loads.The presented approach has the capability of choosing arbitrary loadings and boundary conditions.In this model, adherends are assumed to be orthotropic plates that pursuant to the classical
Observations of temporal overlap of niche occupation among Late Cretaceous marine amniotes suggest that the rise and diversification of mosasauroid squamates might have been influenced by competition with or disappearance of some plesiosaur taxa.We discuss that hypothesis through comparisons of the rates of morphological evolution of mosasauroids t
The line-based transformation model (LBTM), built upon the use of affine transformation, was previously proposed for image registration and image rectification.The original LBTM first utilizes the control line features to estimate six rotation and scale parameters and subsequently uses the control point(s) to retrieve the remaining two translation