further topics in composites

... fixed link, link the input link, link the coupler, and link the output link As link rotates about the fixed joint axis, link makes a reciprocating motion about its prismatic joint axis, while link ... of selecting various links of a kinematic chain as the fixed link is called kinematic inversion Applying kinematic inversion, many mechanisms can be derived from a given kinematic chain However, ... possible for a kinematic chain to contain both closed- and open-loop chains We call such a kinematic chain a hybrid kinematic chain When one of the links in a kinematic chain is fixed to the ground...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 15:20

... fixed link, link the input link, link the coupler, and link the output link As link rotates about the fixed joint axis, link makes a reciprocating motion about its prismatic joint axis, while link ... of selecting various links of a kinematic chain as the fixed link is called kinematic inversion Applying kinematic inversion, many mechanisms can be derived from a given kinematic chain However, ... possible for a kinematic chain to contain both closed- and open-loop chains We call such a kinematic chain a hybrid kinematic chain When one of the links in a kinematic chain is fixed to the ground...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 12:20

... main reasons for this in today’s world of tight purse strings, cost cutting and low budgets is the high cost of errors in employing the wrong person for a job, including the cost of readvertising ... Test Two: Questions Which word in brackets is closest in meaning to the word in capitals? PORTENTOUS (domineering, angry, miserable, menacing, pretentious) Falcon, lapwing, ostrich, cuckoo Which ... job, including the cost of readvertising and interviewing new applicants and of reinvestment in training As IQ is hereditary, it is not possible to increase your IQ It is, nevertheless, possible...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2013, 18:49

... activity in HUVEC Increases in cAMP levels and the activation of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) may be involved [44] Indeed, PKA inhibits the MAP kinase pathway by blocking Raf1 activity in ... leading to the activation of protein kinase C (PKC), followed by the serine/ threonine kinase, Raf1 and then the threonine/tyrosine kinase, MEK1/2 (MAP kinase kinase 1/2) [28–31] This phosphorylation ... an intracellular mechanism involving the modulation of Raf1 activity The inhibition of the MAP kinase pathway by an intracellular mechanism induced by PF-4 suggests that this chemokine may induce...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... proteins contain a stop transfer sequence at the C-terminus consisting of a TMD of 17 residues followed by a short CT of 25 residues containing a KXKXX ER retrieval signal In this study, we investigated ... analysis (Fig 5B) Indeed, the CD4–TMD26 staining pattern overlapped with the ER and Golgi markers, calnexin and GM130, respectively (Fig 5B) In the case of CD4–TMD21, staining was observed in both the ... glycoproteins with an N-terminal cleavable signal peptide and a C-terminal stop transfer sequence Our laboratory has been deeply involved in the identification of protein domains that are determinant...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... economic growth and innovation; insights in the historical evidence of economic growth and innovation; insights in the spatial dimensions of economic growth and innovation; insights in the entrepreneurial ... the following: Knowledge and understanding - demonstrate knowledge and understanding in the field of Economic Growth, Innovation and Spatial Dynamics, including both broad knowledge in the field ... level, shows up in phases of spatial convergence and divergence, respectively Furthermore, factors governing the diffusion of innovations - including the interplay between economic and institutional...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 05:20

... center, founded in 1984 Since its founding, SFI has devoted itself to creating a new kind of scientific research community, pursuing emerging science Operating as a small, visiting institution, ... conceptually decomposing the system in single units, studying these units in isolation, and evaluating the whole as a linear combination of the units' properties (Lewontin and Levins 1987) A homogeneous, ... gathering information (the input), the agent processes it by linking the input to already stored information (the agents' internal representation of the world), and performs acts (the output) in...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... straight line is degenerate everywhere 1.2 The Khintchine type theory The aim is to obtain an analogue of Khintchine’s theorem for the set M ∩ Sn (ψ) of simultaneously ψ-approximable points lying ... BERESNEVICH, DETTA DICKINSON, AND SANJU VELANI Khintchine type Similar terminology exists for the dual form of approximation in which ‘Khintchine type’ is replaced by ‘Groshev type’; for further details ... curve in Rn In this section we develop the theory of ubiquity to incorporate the situation in which the resonant points of interest lie within some specified neighborhood of a given curve in Rn...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... noncompetitive inhibitor toward aspartate If the binding were random, PALA would behave as a linear noncompetitive inhibitor toward both substrates The results clearly indicate an ordered binding mechanism, ... Cunin R (1991) Heterotropic interactions in aspartate transarbamoylase: turning allosteric ATP activation into inhibition as a consequence of a single tyrosine to phenylalanine mutation Proc Natl ... This reflects cooperativity: while the inhibitor blocks the sites which it occupies, it converts the remaining sites to the R-state, resulting in an increase in the activity [14–16] The effect of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 19:20

... in the beginning of the 20th century, see the references in [37], which include also papers of various branches of physics The name “Boolean model” was coined in G Matheron’s school in Fontainebleau ... restricted to medicine and biology But since the volume of spatial information is growing fast also in physics and material science, physicists can only gain by using the techniques developed in spatial ... ‘typical’ object from an in nite system In the two following contributions by Martin Kerscher and Karin Jacobs et al spatial statistics is used to analyze data occurring in two prominent physical systems:...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:59

... certain individuals working in departments of anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and psychology are engaged upon investigations into brain function in their own disciplines but there is no coordinated ... acetylcholine in the nerve ending particles J Neurochem., 16,47-52 TEEEK, (1966a) On subcellular localization and binding of choline acetyltransferase in the cholinerS gic nerve endings of that brain ... that intracerebrally injected [Me-14C]choline was also rapidly phosphorylated and incorporated into a lipid-bound form in whole brain tissue The rapid utilization of free choline after intracerebral...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... females intervene in disputes involving their older sisters and subordinate non-kin, they are as likely to intervene against their sisters as they are to support them In contrast, when females intervene ... gained by intervening against a lowerranking opponent may outweigh the costs, making this type of intervention a form of mutualism (Datta 1983b, Chapais 2001) If intervention against subordinate ... place within an existing long-term relationship, in which both partners have an interest in keeping the beneficial cooperation going, and incentives to large-scale defection are therefore minimal...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:58

... point, i.e a maximum in one dimension (the reaction coordinate, see Chapter 7) and minima in others In principle, any intermediate in a proposed mechanism may be investigated theoretically Initially, ... specialist investigators More recently, however, increased interest in electron transfer processes (e.g in reactions involving organometallic compounds [18] and in biological processes [19]) and increasing ... experimental aspects 3.6 Choosing an appropriate monitoring method 3.6.1 Periodic monitoring 3.6.2 Continuous on-line monitoring 3.6.3 Continuous static monitoring 3.7 Experimental methods 3.7.1...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 15:26

... Dwelling on this primordial state of being and its inevitable mortality is unsettling, so people instead tend to “fall” into a more superficial, public, state of being, absorbing themselves in ... been influenced by the critiques of postprocessual archaeologists and the increasingly eclectic and interdisciplinary nature of archaeology Household archaeology has become increasingly influenced ... understood as taking place in a historical, disciplinary context that defines the broader goals of its practice in line with specific ideas about the world beforehand In addition to addressing traditional...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 16:57

... inorganic constituents in bio-oil Fortunately, the minerals in biomass remain largely in the condensed phase during fast pyrolysis, which concentrates the minerals in the char During the production ... remaining inorganic elements are in suspended char particles smaller than 2.5 µm in diameter, or they are in solution Adding water to separate the bio-oil into aqueous and tar phases resulted in ... decreased during aging in neat bio-oil samples and methanol/oil samples Adding methanol to bio-oil before aging showed a decrease in acetic acid and an increase in methyl acetate after aging at 90ºC,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 14:02

... grain size increase trend in Figure can further prove this point, we can see in high Si concentration region (70-80 v%) the Si grain size in RTA is smaller than furnace This means Si-NCs in RTA ... reaches 60 v% and grain size in furnace annealing samples tends to increase faster in high Si concentration (>70 v%) The same trend can also be observed in SiC-NC, the grain size of SiC crystal ... indicated and compared in Figure In both RTA and furnace annealing samples, we can see that when Si concentration increases, Si grain size which is calculated from formula (1) also tends to increase...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... overlap Stereo recordings of three or more instruments frequently violate this constraint Vincent [16] proposes demixing stereo recordings with two or more instruments by incorporating CASA heuristics, ... correctly in 89.42% of the total time frames in the three-instrument data set and in 84.3% of the time frames in the four-instrument data set In other work, we have seen that using pitch information ... energy in all time-frequency frames that are deemed disjoint (less than dB error caused by interfering sources) in a particular mixture is divided by the total energy in the signal, resulting in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... particular pollination system, using different strategies to lure pollinators, is mainly encountered in orchids with a third of the species in this family supposedly using this pollination system ... gives informations on the methylation status of the internal cytosine in sequence CCGG (table 5) For example a band present in the MspI profile and absent in HpaII indicates a methylation of the internal ... Biotechnology 2Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, 20A Inverleith Row, Edinburgh 3Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh 4University of Hong Kong,...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 08:20

... in the beginning of the 20th century, see the references in [37], which include also papers of various branches of physics The name “Boolean model” was coined in G Matheron’s school in Fontainebleau ... restricted to medicine and biology But since the volume of spatial information is growing fast also in physics and material science, physicists can only gain by using the techniques developed in spatial ... ‘typical’ object from an in nite system In the two following contributions by Martin Kerscher and Karin Jacobs et al spatial statistics is used to analyze data occurring in two prominent physical systems:...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 06:20

... Mammalian target of rapamycin is a direct target for protein kinase B: identification of a convergence point for opposing effects of insulin and amino-acid deficiency on protein translation The Biochemical ... b2-adrenergic receptors: delineation of domains involved in effector coupling and ligand binding specificity Science, 240, 1310–1316 Lai, K M., Gonzalez, M., Poueymirou, W T., Kline, W O., Na, E., Zlotchenko, ... Laguinge, L., Wetzker, R., Cuadrado, A., Gutkind, J S (1998) Activation of Akt/ protein kinase B by G protein-coupled receptors A role for a and bg subunits of heterotrimeric G proteins acting...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 10:20