electromechanical transduction effects in dielectric elastomers actuation sensing stiffness modulation and electric energy generation
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: How disorder influences order and vice versa – mutual effects in fusion proteins containing an intrinsically disordered and a globular protein docx
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18/02/2014, 04:20
... (2005) The intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain of the measles virus nucleoprotein interacts with the C-terminal domain of the phosphoprotein via two distinct sites and remains predominantly ... (2008) Mapping alpha-helical induced folding within the intrinsically disordered C-terminal domain of the measles virus nucleoprotein by site-directed spin-labeling EPR spectroscopy Proteins 73, ... example, in KNR4, a 505 residue yeast protein involved in the coordination of cell wall synthesis and cell growth [18], the nucleoprotein and phosphoprotein from measles and Sendai viruses [19,20] and...
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Dielectric Elastomers as Electromechanical Transducers docx
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30/03/2014, 06:20
... ITR-I047488.indd xiii 12/7/2007 3:14:32 PM Section I Fundamentals Chapter ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCTION EFFECTS IN DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS: ACTUATION, SENSING, STIFFNESS MODULATION AND ELECTRIC ENERGY GENERATION ... area is increasing (dA Ͼ 0), electrical energy is decreasing That is, electrical energy is being converted into mechanical work, and the film is operating in an actuator mode Any increase in area ... converting electrical to mechanical energy and operating in an actuator mode If a charged film is contracting in area, energy is being converted from mechanical energy to electrical energy and the...
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Báo cáo y học: " Effects of Liver × receptor agonist treatment on signal transduction pathways in acute lung inflammation" potx
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12/08/2014, 11:20
... opened and the pleural cavity rinsed with ml of saline solution containing heparin (5 U ml-1) and indomethacin (10 μg ml-1) The exudate and washing solution were removed by aspiration and the ... and subjected to a skin incision at the level of the left sixth intercostals space The underlying muscle was dissected and saline (0.1 ml) or saline containing 2% l-carrageenan (0.1 ml) was injected ... immersed in terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase (TdT) buffer containing deoxynucleotidyl transferase and biotinylated dUTP in TdT buffer, incubated in a humid atmosphere at 37°C for 90 min, and then...
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ROLE OF VOLTAGE-DEPENDENT K+ AND Ca2+ CHANNELS IN CORONARY ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING: EFFECTS OF METABOLIC SYNDROME
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24/08/2014, 11:10
... more investigated candidates include components of the reninangiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) Notwithstanding the systemic and renal influences of these hormones, angiotensin II (AngII) and ... pressures and in poorly autoregulating beds (99; 100) Theories explaining the observation that perfusion pressure can alter MVO2 include coronary pressure-induced increases in contraction and vascular-volume ... conditions, exogenous administration dose-dependently reduces coronary blood flow (329) by enhancing Ca2+ influx, stimulating the release of endothelin, and inhibiting bradykinin dilation (81; 261;...
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Effects of the composition of suspended particles in water on the photosynthetically usable radiation and remote sensing reflectance
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05/10/2015, 19:01
... 25% to 40% into stance phase and the second peak at 65% to 85% into stance Figure 2-8: Schematic drawing of Sander's interface stress transducer [Source: Sanders and Daly, 1993] Sanders and Daly ... LOADING AND UNLOADING OF MZ CHANNEL 71 FIGURE 3-41 : INCLINOMETERS CALIBRATION AT ZERO 72 FIGURE 3-42: SAGGITAL PLANE INCLINOMETER CALIBRATION 73 FIGURE 3-43: INCLINOMETER ... reaction forces and moments Variations of socket reactions forces and moments in the sagittal and coronal planes together with the corresponding ankle and knee joints kinematics/kinetics data...
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Tài liệu Telecommuting: will it change the world? Telecommuting will have major effects in the worlds of work pdf
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25/01/2014, 19:20
... becoming more and more closely linked Trade has increased and the movement of people between countries is greater than ever before However, billions of people still live in poverty, and in many ... for the decline in the ability of the brain to grasp and remember new material They can organize their learning by setting times for reading or practice They can build on skills and experiences ... are busy with families and work, and some adults may feel that further learning is pointless, since they have already achieved many goals at work or in their personal life In conclusion, I feel...
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Tài liệu Economic Reforms, Foreign Direct Investment and its Economic Effects in India pdf
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21/02/2014, 01:20
... support India’s industrial upgrading In 199091, such transfers were largely confined to FDI in engineering They still figure most prominently in this area, with transport equipment standing out ... our findings on manufacturing are in line with the cross-country findings on FDI and trade reported in Aizenman and Noy (2005) Using Granger causality tests on disaggregated measures of financial ... 1) Indicators point to 14 In addition, FDI in financial services gained considerably in importance By contrast, FDI stocks in services such as “electricity and water distribution”, “trade”, and...
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Báo cáo "Correlation Effects in Atomic Thermal Vibration of fcc Crystals " pdf
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05/03/2014, 14:20
... a and M S are the masses of absorbing and backscattering atoms; and in Eqs (15, 16) u0 , σ2 are the zero point contributions to u2 and σ2 ; ω E , θ E are the correlated Einstein frequency and ... vibrate under influence of the neighboring environment Taking into account the influences of the nearest atomic neighbors the Einstein effective interaction potential for single vibrating atom is ... r0 , (11) with r and r0 as the instantaneous and equilibrium bond length between absorber and backscatterer, respectively Using Eqs (8-11) we obtained the Einstein frequency ω0 and temperature...
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Permitted water pollution discharges and population cancer and non-cancer mortality: toxicity weights and upstream discharge effects in US rural-urban areas doc
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06/03/2014, 23:20
... between urban and rural settings [2,3] Drinking water containing carcinogens such as arsenic or cadmium has been linked to various cancers and other diseases [4,5] There are many industrial water ... non-carcinogens having a stronger relationship with cancer mortality than carcinogens These regions, highlighted in red, are in the intermountain west and in parts of the Midwest extending to ... play a role in this spatial variation, as some chemicals or combinations of interacting chemicals may be present in one area but not in others Regions to examine for these effects include the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: The pH dependence of kinetic isotope effects in monoamine oxidase A indicates stabilization of the neutral amine in the enzyme–substrate complex ppt
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07/03/2014, 06:20
... containing 0.5% (w ⁄ v) Triton X-100 and 0.2 mm kynuramine The activity was calculated by following the initial increase of A316 due to production of 4-hydroxyquinone and using an extinction ... limiting rate of flavin reduction (kred) and the substrate binding constant (Ks) were determined as described by Strickland et al [30] using the origin software package The pH dependence of the kinetic ... (Quebec, Canada) Isotope effects and their pH dependence in MAO A 100 lgÆmL)1 of Zeocin Multiple integrants were selected by growth on plates with increasing Zeocin concentrations, and screened for MAO...
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Single electron effects in highly doped polysilicon nanowires
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16/03/2014, 15:21
... temperature Since these poly-Si grains are intended to serve as single-electron islands in laterally structured nanowires, the annealing time has to be very short and properly controlled in order ... polysilicon grains are clearly visible An average diameter of these grains is determined to be about 25 nm The grain size increases both with longer annealing time as well as with higher annealing temperature ... by investigating the refraction index by optical ellipsometry The optimum sputtering conditions as judged from optical density and surface morphology lead to a sputtering rate of 6:6 nm=min Subsequently,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Cholinoceptive and cholinergic properties of cardiomyocytes involving an amplification mechanism for vagal efferent effects in sparsely innervated ventricular myocardium ppt
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23/03/2014, 05:22
... Comparison of inhibitory activities of donepezil and other cholinesterase inhibitors on acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase in vitro Methods Find Exp Clin Pharmacol 22, 609–613 28 Papandreou ... et al and suppressing arrhythmia However, recent findings have demonstrated that vagal nerve endings are rarely detected in the left ventricle in humans, guinea pigs and rats, although the innervation ... a mixture of type II and type IV collagenases and type XIV protease (SigmaAldrich), and inoculated onto dishes precoated with a mixture of gelatin, fibronectin, and laminin [33] HEK293 cells were...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Allosteric water and phosphate effects in Hoplosternum littorale hemoglobins pdf
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23/03/2014, 13:20
... transitions, and secondarily on phosphate binding Although having very different oxygen-binding properties, both Hbs respond to an increase in water activity with an increase on oxygen afnity, indicating ... obtained from samples containing more than 5% methemoglobin (nal concentration) were discarded The Hb solution osmolalities (Osm) were determined after binding experiments from freezing point ... activity in different experimental conditions: for the stripped Hb (in an ATP and chloride-free buffer solution), in the presence of 0.1 mM and mM of ATP, in a buffer containing 100 mM NaCl, and a...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Salicylic acid and the hypersensitive response initiate distinct signal transduction pathways in tobacco that converge on the as-1-like element of the PR-1a promoter pot
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23/03/2014, 15:21
... transcription factor TGA2.2 is the main component of as-1binding factor ASF-1 and is involved in salicylic acid- and auxininducible expression of as-1-containing target promoters J Biol Chem 275, ... infected with TMV, and PR-1 proteins were monitored in the necrotic tissue induced by the spreading lesions Whereas lesions and the accumulation of PR-1 proteins remained strictly localized in ... comprising parts of the 5¢ region and the open reading frame encoded by the W38-1 gene [35], was inserted into StyI/PstI cleaved pT5S/HDP containing the PR-1a gene The resulting plasmid was linearized...
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TAX AND LIQUIDITY EFFECTS IN PRICING GOVERNMENT BONDS doc
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29/03/2014, 06:21
... gains and ordinary income Since the trade-off between these two rates is a major contributor to any tax effects, it is not surprising that we not find convincing evidence of their existence In ... important factor in pricing errors Using the spline approach described in Section IV, we compare the pricing errors obtained from fitting the CRSP and GovPX data over the period during which GovPX ... the data using the Nelson and Siegel methodology and find similar results in terms of magnitude and significance 15 See Green and Ødegaard ~1997!, Ronn and Shin ~1997!, or Fabozzi and Nirenberg...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Death-associated protein kinase (DAPK) and signal transduction: blebbing in programmed cell death docx
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29/03/2014, 08:20
... tropomyosin and the actin-bundling protein, a-actinin Finally, myosin is recruited and is concentrated in a few distinct dots along the cortex [4] When examined by scanning electron microscopy in detergent-extracted ... can induce apoptosis by suppressing integrin-mediated cell adhesion and survival signalling [53], and can inhibit the association of talin head domain with integrin to suppress the integrin–Cdc42 ... proteins, actin, actin-bundling proteins and contractile proteins Indeed, as bleb expansion slows, the ERM protein ezrin (and possibly moesin) is rapidly recruited to the bleb membrane [4] to link...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Death-associated protein kinase (DAPK) and signal transduction: regulation in cancer ppt
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29/03/2014, 08:20
... tumours and are now being tested in combination therapies [47] Tyrosine kinase inhibitors are widely and successfully used in the treatment of cancer, and in the context of this review, may inhibit ... activating DAPK activity [40] Indeed, bosutinib, an investigational Src kinase inhibitor, has been shown to inhibit the migration and invasion of breast cancer cells [48] In addition, dasatinib, ... (BMS-354825) tyrosine kinase inhibitor suppresses invasion and induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and non-small cell lung cancer cells Clin Cancer Res...
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plasmonic effects in near field optical
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06/05/2014, 09:01
... made in chromium shown in Fig 1b were also investigated using NSOM Figure 4a and b show the NSOM images for the y- and x -polarized light illuminations, respectively For y-polarized illumination ... of the imaginary part of the dielectric constant The peak intensities from both the bowtie and rectangular apertures for the y polarization are less in chromium than those in gold, and the square ... y-polarized illumination are shown in Figs and 6, respectively Figure 5a and b show the time-averaged |E y |2 and |E z |2 distributions in the middle yz plane across the bowtie gap, and Fig 5c and d show...
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