Isolator system

This paper develops a constant friction coefficient model that best represents a velocity-dependent friction model for predicting structural response of buildings isolated with concave friction bearings. To achieve this goal, the effect of friction model on structural response of three hypothetical isolated buildings with different number of stories subjected to different earthquake scenarios was numerically investigated.

15p vifilm 24-09-2024 3 1   Download

In the course of current research the procedure of obtaining of the piecewise linear vibration systems time and frequency responses have been developed. The method is partly analytical and partly numerical and is based on combining of linear solutions of different sections in a cycle of motion. In a row with the method of obtaining of the exact steady state time and frequency response, also it is provided sensitivity analysis of the vibration isolator.

86p runthenight07 01-03-2023 7 3   Download

The increasing use of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) can enable very close vehicle spacings which generally results in a net drag reduction for the resulting convoys. The majority of vehicle development has, to date, been for vehicles in isolation, thus the study of interaction effects is becoming increasingly important. The main objective of this research is to investigate the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for understanding convoy aerodynamics and to further the understanding of airflow interaction between vehicles via CFD.

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This research is an investigation into the phrase 'intermediate landscape' and tests this concept in the re-development of the Sanya waterfront, China. The phrase is based on the 'missing link' in the current disconnection between the landscape and urban development in Sanya city. If the landscape is considered as a connection across scales and urban systems rather than an isolated system, then how can landscape affect the structure and function of urban development?

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The objectives of the thesis: Identify the pathogenicity potential and classificate at species level of Colletotrichum spp. isolated from hot chilli in Vietnam; produce stable oligochitosan-silica nano, which potentially highly induced effectively the systemic resistance against anthranose disease on hot chilli, based on the combination of low molecular weight chitosan with nano silica.

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The paper first introduces heteroglossia – a development of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) in Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) school before suggesting possible uses of heteroglossia in present-day studies of language, with particular focus on the role of word order in sentences of Vietnamese, a typical isolating language.

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When a satellite is in orbit, micro vibration generated by its actuators (such as reaction wheels, deployable mechanisms, etc.) will affect the imaging quality of the camera. Viscoelastic materials are utilized as passive isolators to reduce these micro vibrations due to their simple construction and excellent energy dissipation capacity.

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This paper focuses on a SCESS in terms of modeling and control designing aim to manage active power flow between the grid and the SCESS. A predictive control algorithm for discrete-time bilinear state-space model of a non-isolated bidirectional DC-DC converter is proposed. This algorithm is supplementary methods for this converter besides linear or hysteresis control methods in other research. Simulations validate the effectiveness of the proposed control.

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Database Management  Verifiable Data – confirming the accuracy of the stored data by randomly calling a customer and verifying name, address, phone, email, and other attributes in the record.  Data Cleansing – the act of detecting and correcting (or removing) corrupt or inaccurate records from a record set, table, or database. Used mainly in databases, the term refers to identifying incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate, irrelevant etc. parts of the data and then replacing, modifying or deleting this dirty data.

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From the antennae of the moth Mamestra brassicae, we have identified a lepidopteran G protein a subunit belonging to the Gq family, through immunological detection in crude antennal extract and antennal primary cell cultures, followed by molecular cloning. The complete cDNA sequence (1540 bp) contains an open reading frame encoding a protein of 353 amino acids.

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Cytochrome P450foxy (P450foxy, CYP505) is a fused protein of cytochrome P450 (P450) and its reductase isolated from the fungus Fusarium oxysporum, which catalyzes the subterminal (x-1x-3) hydroxylation of fatty acids. Here, we produced, purified and characterized a fused recombinant protein (rP450foxy) using the Escherichia coli expression system. Purified rP450foxy was catalytically and spectrally indistinguishable from the native protein, but most of the rP450foxy was recovered in the soluble fraction of E. coli cells unlike the membrane-bound native protein....

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Random PCR mutagenesis was applied to theThermus thermophilus xylA gene encoding xylose isomerase. Three cold-adapted mutants were isolated with the following amino-acid substitutions: E372G, V379A (M-1021), E372G, F163L (M-1024) and E372G (M-1026). The wild-type and mutated xylAgenes were cloned and expressed in Escherichia coliHB101 using the vector pGEMÒ-T Easy, and their physicochemical and catalytic properties were determined.

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All living organisms contain redox systems involving thior-edoxins (Trx), proteins featuringanextremelyconservedand reactive active site that perform thiol-disul®de interchanges with disul®de bridges of target proteins. In photosynthetic organisms, numerous isoforms of Trx coexist, as revealedby sequencing ofArabidopsisgenome. The speci®c functions of many of them are still unknown.

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Xanthomonas campestrispv.vitians is a Gram-negative plant-associated bacterium that acts as causative agent of bacterial leaf spot and headrot in lettuce. The lipopolysac-charide of this bacterium is suspected to be an important molecule for adhesion to and infection of the plants. The lipopolysaccharide has been isolated from the phenol phase and the O-specific chain characterized by compositional analysis, high fieldNMRandMALDI-TOFMS.

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Plant cell wall proteins called expansins are thought to disrupt hydrogen bonding between cell wall polysaccha-rides without hydrolyzing them. We describe here a novel gene with sequence similarity to plant expansins, isolated from the cellulolytic fungus Trichoderma reesei. The pro-tein named swollenin has an N-terminal fungal type cel-lulose binding domain connected by a linker region to the expansin-like domain.

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RNA aptamers with anity for the Ras-binding domain (RBD) of Raf-1 were isolated from a degenerate pool by in vitroselection.These aptamers eciently inhibited theRas interaction with the Raf-1 RBD, and also inhibited Ras-induced Raf-1 activation in a cell-free system. The RNA aptamer with the most potent inhibitory e€ect speci®cally inhibited the RasáRaf-1 interaction and had no anity for the RBD of the RGL protein, a homolog of the Ral GDP dissociation stimulator.

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Cytochrome P450BM3is a self-sufficient fatty acid mono-oxygenase consisting of a diflavin (FAD/FMN) reductase domain and a heme domain fused together in a single polypeptide chain. The multidomain structure makes it an ideal model system for studying the mechanism of electron transfer and for understanding P450 systems in general. Here we report the redox properties of the cyto-chrome P450BM3 wild-type holoenzyme, and its isolated FADreductase andP450 heme domains, when immobilized in a didodecyldimethylammonium bromide film cast on an edge-plane graphite electrode....

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The cytochromec nitrite reductase is isolated from the membranes of the sulfate-reducing bacteriumDesulfovibrio desulfuricansATCC 27774 as a heterooligomeric complex composedby two subunits (61 kDa and19 kDa) containing c-type hemes, encoded by the genes nrfA and nrfH, respectively. The extracted complex has in average a 2NrfA:1NrfH composition. The separation of ccNiR sub-units from one another is accomplished by gel filtration chromatography in the presence of SDS.

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Liver microsomal preparations are routinely used to predict drug interactions that can occurin vivo as a result of inhi-bition of cytochrome P450 (CYP)-mediated metabolism. However, the concentration of free drug (substrate and inhibitor)at its intrahepatic site of action, a variable that cannot be directly measured, may be significantly different from that in microsomal incubation systems.

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Antimicrobial peptides form one of the first lines of defense against invading pathogens by killing the microorganisms and/ormobilizing the host innate immune system. Although over 800 antimicrobial peptides have been isolated from many different species, especially insects, few have been reported frommarinefish. Sequenceanalysisof twogenomic clones (15.6 and 12.5 kb) from the winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus(Walbaum) resulted in the identification of multiple clustered genes for novel pleuro-cidin-like antimicrobial peptides....

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