tangent modulus tensors for thermomechanical response of elastomers

... performance of the CMA for QAM signals, the so-called modified constant modulus algorithm (MCMA) [17], known as MMA for multimodulus algorithm, has been proposed [18–20] This algorithm, instead of ... part of the source signal a(n) The term on the right side of the equality (4) prevents the deviation of the square of the real part of the equalizer outputs from a constant The minimization of ... of the SCMA criterion, in the case of P-PSK (P ≥ 8) signals, ensures the recovery of all signals except for an arbitrary phase rotation for each recovered signal 4.3 4-PSK case On the basis of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... the level of compliance, safety of products and functioning of the internal market for the product categories you know? B11.1 Impact of the following elements of Action on the level of non-compliance ... impacts of the three elements of Action recalled below on the performance of Notified Bodies, safety of products, functioning of the internal market and operational costs/administrative burdens for ... tackle this problem For the purpose of this questionnaire they are regrouped under “Action 2” and consist of the following measures: • Reinforcement of the notification requirements for notified bodies:...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20

... more useful for screening modulators of stress response in mammalian cells Induction of stress response by SA Enhancement of heat shock promoter activity by SA SA induces the activation of HSF but ... effects of the SA-activated HSF on the induction of transcription of hsp genes Hsps are suggested to play important roles in the acquisition of resistance of cells against various forms of stress ... active form from inactive monomers in response to various forms of stress and induces the transcription of hsp genes [8] SA is shown to trigger HSF differently than heat shock [20] The SAinduced form...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... was performed at 65 °C for and 37 °C for 60 followed by denaturation at 95 °C in a total volume of 50 lL of reaction mixture using the RT-PCR kit (Stratagene) PCR amplification was performed using ... endogenous WD gene Amplification conditions were: 95 °C for followed by 18 cycles of 95 °C for 45 s, 55 °C for 45 s, 72 °C for 45 s, and 72 °C for Ó FEBS 2002 2154 W J Oh et al (Eur J Biochem 269) ... effects of RNAi of the Ku-80 subunit and the truncated Ku-80 mutant on WD gene expression To examine the effects of the Ku protein on the regulation of WD gene expression, we measured the amount of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:20

... staining of 28S rRNA is shown to allow comparison of RNA amounts loaded (C) Quantification of results for BBB-IL-8972)1310 mRNA from an experiment performed as in (B), but with different doses of UV ... before the assay of RNA stability Half-lives for BBB-IL-8972)1310 were quantified as described in Materials and Methods 5834 F Bollig et al (Eur J Biochem 269) Ó FEBS 2002 1) Formation of two of ... consisting of the ARE of GM-CSF or the AU-rich region of the IL-8 3¢-UTR (nucleotides 972–1310) Where indicated, antibodies specific for HuR (0.75 lg), AUF1 (1 lL of a : 10 dilution of serum) or...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20

... target genes of p53 and their respective TAp73 isoforms [6] Therefore, the TA isoforms may be expected to have functions in tumor suppression while ΔN isoforms might be oncogenic For the first ... exon of the full-length genes [5] These different isoforms have been shown to have vastly different activities The TA isoforms act similarly to p53, inducing apoptosis In comparison, ΔN isoforms ... PCR was performed in a final reaction volume of 50 μl containing 25 μl of 2× SYBR Universal PCR Master Mix (Applied Biosystems), 0.5 μM/L of each primer and μl of cDNA PCR was performed in MicroAmp...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... stage of infection These empirical estimates for coital frequency were then used in Goodreau et al [27] for the three of their four transmission models that were built off of published estimates for ... dependence that is of core interest, not merely something to control for For their series of concurrency modelling papers, Morris and Kretzschmar developed an elaborate set of computer code to ... biological data in all of the ways that Sawers and Stillwaggon outline as necessary for a realistic model, although all incorporated some forms of data Nevertheless, this line of work confirmed the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... with real value of σv (t), the steadystate misalignment of VSS-SPAPA with adaptive estimate 2 of σv (t) is worse than that with real value of σv (t) For example, the misalignment of VSS-SPAPA in ... state for sparse impulse response The SPNLMS algorithm [15] is proposed to reduce the heavy computational complexity of MPNLMS without loss of fast convergence The step-size control matrix of MPNLMS ... demonstrates excellent performance by combining the fast proportionate algorithm with variable step-size technique for identification of sparse impulse response The organization of this article is as...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... Cartesian Tab • In the Number of Grid Spaces area type in the X direction edit box • In the Number of Grid Spaces area type in the Y direction edit box • In the Number of Grid Spaces area type in ... the Define menu select Response Spectrum Cases… to display the Define Response Spectra dialog box 15 In this dialog box: • Click the Add New Spectra button to display the Response Spectrum Case ... this example since the response spectrum is run in only one direction In the Input Response Spectra area select UBC94S1 from the U1 Function dropdown box In the Input Response Spectra area type...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 09:20

... Refolding of proteins and determination of protein concentration Refolding of proteins was performed using a Refolding kit (Novagen) following the manufacturers instructions The concentration of purified ... Evaluation of tests and statistical analysis Wilcoxon signed-ranks test was used for analysis of the mean of O D values between individual antigens in same shedding levels using SAS version 8.0 Software ... values of P < 0.05 were obtained In addition, ROC curve analysis (Analyse-it Software, www analyse-it.com) was performed on the ELISA results of individual antigens to determine the optimal cut-off...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... allows to calculate the MOE of the sample according to the force applied, the shape of the beam and the distances between forces and Figure Principle of the pure bending test of an homogeneous 64 * ... properties of individual trees In the second part, we assess the performance of the method in genetic field tests MATERIALS AND METHODS 2.1 Reliability of the measurement and relevance for measuring ... results of preliminary validation tests and first results of one large-scale field experiment In the first part of the study, we assess the reliability of the measurement and its relevance for measuring...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... was evidence of moderate psychological response and that this confirmed the need for a level of psychological support to the families of patients hospitalised for A/H1N1 Therefore, in response we ... evidence of an adverse psychological response, to identify risk factors for such a response, and to assess if the level of response was sufficient to support development of a specific package of psychological ... fear of the unknown, fear of suffering, fear of loneliness and fear of personal extinction Death anxiety can be interpreted as an additional form of general anxiety or distress in the context of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... monotherapy of lentiviral infections Since three-drug regimens consisting of raltegravir, tenofovir (i.e the active form of PMPA) and FTC have become a new recommendable option for first-line therapy of ... [59,60] Briefly, a 500-μl aliquot of plasma was spun down at 13,000 × g for h The liquid was poured off and ml of RNA-STAT 60 was added After min., 250 μl of chloroform was added and vortexed The ... supernatant was poured off The cell pellet was lysed with ml of DNASTAT for 10 250 μl of chloroform was added and the mixture was vortexed The samples were spun at 13,000 for 60 and the aqueous...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... criterion for improving rabbit sire line breeding stocks for a range of production systems ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are grateful to the staff of the farm and to J Sauquillo for his help and care of the ... applied and direct responses Anim Prod 51, 23-24 Mrode RA, Smith C, Thompson R (1990b) Selection for rate and efficiency of lean gain in Hereford cattle 11 Evaluation of correlated responses Anim ... were generation At the end of the test, selected animals were culled for health problems independently of performance Selected bucks and does were first mated at ! 20 wk of age, while later matings...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... energy component which is capable of solving the unphysical response of the MFH model in the interested deformation range HYPERELASTIC MATERIAL MODEL The stress tensors of homogeneous hyperelastic ... body force and the specified traction in the reference configuration Ω0 , respectively The variational equation [7] for the weak form of the problem might be rewritten for the finite deformation ... stress resutls of uniaxial tension tests for the MFH model Figure 3: Unphysical response (left), different stretch solutions (right) of the MFH To obtain the material constants for the MFH model,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/06/2016, 14:11

... An Abstract of A MODEL FOR THE PREDICTION OF SUBGRADE SOIL RESILIENT MODULUS FOR FLEXIBLE-PAVEMENT DESIGN: INFLUENCE OF MOISTURE CONTENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE Beresford Obafemi Arnold Davies ... Seasonal Variation of Resilient Modulus 28 3.2.5 Environmental Effects on Resilient Modulus 31 3.2.6 Chapter Resilient Modulus of Fine-grained Soils Models for Predicting Resilient Modulus 33 Seasonal ... property input parameters for the flexible pavement structure are resilient/dynamic modulus of asphalt concrete, resilient modulus of base/subbase, and resilient modulus of the subgrade Among these...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2016, 17:20

... perfect, performance of our effectiveness algorithm applied to administrative claims data By way of comparison, the corresponding performance characteristics in administrative data for a number of rheumatology ... claims data To test the performance of the effectiveness algorithm and to see whether it was similar for non-biologic RA treatments, we performed a separate analysis of RA patients enrolled in ... effective Because of similarities in both the descriptive characteristics of the study populations of biologic and non-biologic DMARD users and the performance characteristics of the effectiveness...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... or tail of the pancreas For tumors of SPT located in the neck and body of the pancreas, resection of the midportion of the pancreas and the mass with preserving the rim of the head and tail portion ... cases of SPT, abdominal ultrasonography and CT scan were both performed in 16 of the 18 patients In the rest of two patients, ultrasonography was carried out and revealed a solid-cystic neoplasm of ... duct was unfortunately found damaged Subsequently, duodenum-preserving pancreatic head resection was performed and the postoperative recovery was uneventful Of note, up to 15% of cases of SPT have...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... median period of pain relief being months The range of relief for the radiofrequency group was from zero days to 16 months for all 26 patients who underwent the radiofrequency procedure Of the 14 ... 100% relief of their pain in 86% of the patients with a median relief period of months The range of relief varied from zero days to up to 13 months for the facet injection group None of the lumbar ... restraints of the surgery RESULTS A total of 174 people (77 women, 97 men; mean age 64, range 22-89) were included Length of follow-up was at least years with a maximum of years Location of facet...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:32

... wide range of dienophilic compounds is available for DARinv In order to obtain reaction times in the range of minutes for the DARinv, the reactivity of the dienophile is decisive for the rapid ... inside of the cyclobutene ring The presence of a further double bond inside of the cyclohexene ring is not of relevance due to the inactivity of this double bond in the DARinv The anhydride ring of ... Functionalization of tetrazines with temozolomide –TMZ Indeed the situation of the synthesis of a further group of dienes used in our TMZ-BioShuttle studies is unequally catchier and the synthesis of functionalized...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39