Apparatus to Determine Equivalents

Development of an Experimental Apparatus to Determine Impact Response of Articular Cartilage

The articulations are subject to static and dynamic loads during daily living. Small impact forces can cause damage on articular surfaces as a result of repetitive impact stress. This paper describes a project for a drop tower to allow dynamic impact test in cartilage tissue aiming to understand the mechanics of the cartilage response to impact and seeking to obtain dynamic properties of cartil...

Discrete-time Equivalents to Continuous-time Systems

Beyond Tariff Equivalents

The services sector is the next frontier in trade liberalization, and progress in this area is likely to bring enormous economic gain to developed and developing economies. A major impediment to services trade liberaliza­ tion, however, is the lack of rigorous analytical work on its potential impact. Our aim in this paper is to propel the policy relevant research forward. Restrictions on servic...

Minimal components of the RNA polymerase II transcription apparatus determine the consensus TATA box

In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, multiple approaches have arrived at a consensus TATA box sequence of TATA(T/A)A(A/T)(A/G). TATA-binding protein (TBP) affinity alone does not determine TATA box function. To discover how a minimal set of factors required for basal and activated transcription contributed to the sequence requirements for a functional TATA box, we performed transcription reactions usin...

O-10: Formation and Molecular Composition of The Sperm Head to Tail Coupling Apparatus

Background According to a worldwide survey in 2010 infertility affects 48.5 million of couples. In roughly half of the cases infertility is provoked by the male mate. Thus, a significant percentage of young men are infertile but the underlying causes are mostly unknown. Male fertility and reproduction success critically depends on proper formation of the mature sperm. Transmission of the geneti...