... strength of composites Longitudinal tensile strength of composites Transverse compressive strength of composites Transverse tensile strength of composites Out -of- plane compressive strength of composites ... strength of composites in MMF xix E1, E2, E3 , , Degraded Young’s moduli of composites G12, G23, G13 , Young’s moduli of composites , υ12, υ13, υ23 Shear moduli of composites Degraded shear moduli of ... FAILURE ANALYSISOF DOUBLE- NOTCHED COMPOSITE LAMINATES PHAM DINH CHI (B.ENG) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE...
... core of the particle from lysosomal esterases, or that impaired lipolysis of LDL lipids may block proteolysis of apoB [36] This may arise as a result of the failure of hydrophobic regions of apoB, ... experiments The rates of uptake of both the lipid and protein components are not matched by the rate of cellular metabolism of these species, resulting in the accumulation of both unmodified cholesteryl ... inhibition of the thiol -dependent lysosomal cathepsins by glycated proteins may be of particular importance in apoB turnover The accumulation of glycated apoB within HMDMs may be related to that of the...
... is timedependent or not is time series regression (Bowerman and O’Connell, 1993) The polynomial time regression between dependent variable, yt and time is written as follows: Time series analysis ... Standardized time series The above analysis will show us whether air pollutant are dependent on time or not but in air pollution time series analysis, it would be useful to find time periods of risky ... synchronous time fluctuations of air pollutants The different time correlation behavior of the pollutants is further discussed in section 3.3 Time series results The first step in time series analysis...
... between sample replicates Repeated measures analysisof variance was then used to test for the presence of interaction between the effects of Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Virology ... have investigated the suitability of 10 commonly used housekeeping genes for use as QPCR normalisers in a variety of cell types infected with a variety of strains of HIV-1, HSV-1, VZV and cytomegalovirus ... data to analysis using the GeNorm tool [13] (Table 2) Using the results from the GeNorm analysis it was possible to list the housekeeping genes in order of reliability in the context of each...
... Furthermore, the mean of four short time series of 256 points was shown to provide a better estimate of H than a single time series of 1024 points The results of the reliability analysisof the present ... any analysis from FC2 + s in order to remove any effect oftime on HDFA The interpretation of HDFA depends on the values detected Values of HDFA greater than 0.5 are indicative of a persistent times ... effect of the sliding windows on the estimations of the Hurst exponent The independent variables were subject group and time, with an interaction between subject group and time included The dependent...
... between sample replicates Repeated measures analysisof variance was then used to test for the presence of interaction between the effects of Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Virology ... have investigated the suitability of 10 commonly used housekeeping genes for use as QPCR normalisers in a variety of cell types infected with a variety of strains of HIV-1, HSV-1, VZV and cytomegalovirus ... data to analysis using the GeNorm tool [13] (Table 2) Using the results from the GeNorm analysis it was possible to list the housekeeping genes in order of reliability in the context of each...
... 30 Time (s) 1.5 10 20 30 40 50 60 Time (s) 10 20 30 40 50 60 Time (s) (c) (c) Figure 5: The central frequency of the LF, MF, and HF of the HRV Figure 6: The variance of the LF, MF, and HF of ... al., Time- frequency analysisof heart rate variability signals in patients with autonomic dysfunction,” in Proceedings of the IEEE-SP International Symposium on Time- Frequency and Time- Scale Analysis, ... content varies with time) , a more global analysis method that represents this type of signals in both time and frequency domain simultaneously is needed One of the earliest used time- frequency signal...
... Challenges in comparing the quality of life of older people between ethnic groups, and the implications for national well-being indicators: a secondary analysisof two cross-sectional surveys Robert L ... Organization Quality of Life scale for older people (WHOQOL-OLD) We found differences, some significant, between groups in terms of self-reported importance of various aspects of quality of life A regression ... with social and psychological dimensions, overlapping with measures of quality of life (QOL) [1-3] A great deal of the well-being of any nation will be determined by physical and mental health and...
... RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS This section, due to the limitation of number of pages of the conference, we consider two examples through a series of benchmark problems for laminated composite plates including ... Mechanics of Laminated Composite Plates and Shells Theory and Analysis Second edition, CRC Press, New York, 2004 [2] Whitney, J M., The effect of boundary conditions on the response of laminated composites ... isogeometric analysis (IGA)[9] that is capable of integrating finite element analysis (FEA) into conventional NURBS-based CAD design tools Following a decade of development, isogeometric analysis...
... is discretized by a set of node The degree of freedom (DOF) of each node of the plate is d [u, v, w, x , y ]T , in which u, v, w are the displacements at the middle of the plate and x , ... energy strain of stiffened composite plate is obtained by N si U U P U st (7) i 1 where N st is the number of stiffeners NUMERICAL RESULTS Consider an optimization analysisof a composite plate ... to solve for the solution of fiber angle of the stiffened composite plate The objective function, the strain energy of the structure, is computed by finite element analysis using the cell-based...
... whether the time- dependent survival curves in presence of the drugs (Fig 2) were merely due to a slower absorption of WP631 Two approaches were used, which take advantage of the fluorescence of anthracyclines ... ± SEM, from six to 12 independent experiments (E) Effect of WP631 on the number of viable cells determined by exclusion of Trypan blue dye Data are shown as a percent of the cells in untreated ... ÔServeis Cientifico-TecnicsÕ of the University of Barcelona, using the 488 nm line of an argon laser and standard optical emission filters Percentages of cells at each phase of the cell cycle were estimated...
... [12] The resulting timecourse reflecting the conformational change of the probe due to the binding of cyclic AMP was analysed in terms of (1) time lag between the direct addition of drug into the ... concentration -dependent decrease in the rate of onset of Lower concentrations of isoproterenol initiate Epac-based probe activation faster than higher concentrations Having studied the temporal profile of ... ligand -dependent differences in the kinetics of the signaling response of endogenous b2 -adrenoceptors were also observed In terms of the time lag between drug addition and initiation of response,...
... circadian time independent EGF responses These results suggest differential utilization of C/EBP TFs downstream of EGFR signaling in the SCN to achieve circadian timedependent and circadian time independent ... circadian time independent and thus cannot account for circadian timedependent gene-expression regulation downstream of EGFR Circadian timedependent post-transcriptional regulation of c-Jun ... circadian timedependent regulation of c- http://genomebiology.com/2006/7/6/R48 Jun cofactors would be required for regulation of circadian timedependent EGFR responses A schematic summarizing all of...
... constantly to the people of that peninsula I speak now not of the soldiers of each side, not of the ideologies of the Liberation Front, not of the junta in Saigon, but simply of the people who have ... man When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions ... Part of autopsy It It It Those of us… The weight of such a commitment to the life and health of America Another burden of responsibility I The Nobel Prize for Peace This It I The relationship of...
... applied time- dependent regulation analysis to the case of the nitrogen starvation of yeast cells A brief period of nitrogen starvation is applied at the end of the production process of industrial ... dithiothreitol as standard Regulation analysis To study the dynamics of regulation in time, integrative time- dependent regulation analysis was used [10] Timedependent hierarchical regulation coefficients ... this study, we used the integrative version of time- dependent regulation analysis, which integrates all the regulation between time points t0 (the start of the perturbation) and t This results in...
... subunit analysisof single deletion mutants We sought to determine how the absence of individual supernumerary subunits affected the composition of bc1 Table Growth phenotype of single and double ... absence of subunit also resulted in an increase in the ratio of intermediate to mature cytochrome c1 and a disappearance of the intermediate form of the Rieske protein At the same time, the levels of ... subunits of the yeast bc1 complex indicated on the left side of the blots Ó FEBS 2004 Assembly of the yeast cytochrome bc1 complex (Eur J Biochem 271) 1213 Table Cytochrome bc1 subunit analysis of...
... of element of the beam Kσe Using two-noded element of the beam with three degree of freedom at each node d d ud , w1 , ϕd , ud , w2 , ϕd 1 2 T Non-linear analysisof multilayered reinforced composite ... take more number of terms in the double Fourier series of the displacements Displacement of the non-linear analysisof multilayered reinforced CPS plates are smaller than that of multilayered ... comparision of the effect ofcomposite and shape memory alloy stiffeners stability ofcomposite shells and plates Int J Mech Sci., Vol.39, No10, pp.1139-1149 Dao Huy Bich, Non-linear analysisof laminated...
... specific activity of each amphioxus enzyme was 0.25 nmol of retinolÆmin)1Æ(mg of microsomes))1 for RDH1 incubated with 15 lm all-trans-retinal, and 1.4 nmol of retinolÆmin)1Æ(mg of microsomes))1 ... addition of cofactor and carried out for 15 at 37 °C in 0.5 mL The amount of protein used in the reaction mixture was 15 lg The reaction was terminated by the addition of an equal volume of cold ... with amphioxus RDH1 cDNA produced a net 47 pmol and 99 pmol of retinol per mg of total protein after h of incubation with 10 lm and 20 lm of COS-7 cells were transiently transfected with constructs...
... abundance of Ser (9– 12%) The members of acidic DE group had a high content of Asp (14%) and Glu (10–14%) N-Terminal amino acid sequence analysisof HMM chitin-binding proteins Eleven of 37 spots ... degradation of the intact protein, thereby allowing deduction of the sequence of a mature protein consisting of 143 residues (AB201768) The basic Y7 cDNA encoded a mature protein of 131 residues ... acid composition of the various types of cuticle of Limulus polyphemus J Insect Physiol 15, 495–507 Larsen NJ (1975) Isolation and characterization of proteins from the cuticle of Limulus polyphemus...