On the search of lightweight lightning protection materials that can be used as part systems, we investigate some types electroconductive fabrics by applying several impulse currents in laboratory. Samples four commercially available textiles were analyzed, two rip-stop, a plain-weave, nonwoven, and additionally carbon-impregnated polymeric film. Under laboratory conditions, each sample was sub...

BACKGROUND Portable respiratory inductive plethysmography (RIP) is promising for noninvasive monitoring of breathing patterns in unrestrained subjects. However, its use has been hampered by requiring recalibration after changes in body position. OBJECTIVES To facilitate RIP application in unrestrained subjects, we developed a technique for adjustment of RIP calibration using position sensor f...

This document specifies an extension of the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), as defined in [1,2], to expand the amount of useful information carried in RIP messages and to add a measure of security. This memo obsoletes RFC 1388, which specifies an update to the "Routing Information Protocol" STD 34, RFC 1058. The RIP-2 protocol analysis is documented in RFC 1721 [4]. The RIP-2 applicability ...

Seventy-one wild-isolated strains of Neurospora crassa were examined for their ability to support repeat-induced point mutation (RIP) in the erg-3 locus. RIP was exceptionally inefficient but detectable in crosses with the strain FGSC 430 from Adiopodoume, Ivory Coast. We could find no consistent differences in ascospore yields when wild isolates identified as "low-RIP" or "high-RIP" strains we...

The restricted isometry property (RIP) is a well-known matrix condition that provides state-of-the-art reconstruction guarantees for compressed sensing. While random matrices are known to satisfy this property with high probability, deterministic constructions have found less success. In this paper, we consider various techniques for demonstrating RIP deterministically, some popular and some no...

Larvae of intertidal species develop at sea and must return to adult habitats to replenish populations. Similarly, nutrients, detritus and plankton provide important subsidies spurring growth and reproduction of macroalgae and filter-feeding invertebrates that form the foundation of intertidal communities. Together, these factors determine the density and intensity of interactions among communi...

The process designated RIP (repeat-induced point mutation) alters duplicated DNA sequences in the sexual cycle of Neurospora crassa. We tested whether non-Neurospora sequences are susceptible to RIP, explored the basis for the observed immunity to this process of a diverged tandem duplication that probably arose by a natural duplication followed by RIP (the Neurospora zeta-eta region), and inve...

Ribosome-inactivating proteins (RIPs) are a family of enzymes that depurinate rRNA and inhibit protein biosynthesis. Here we report the purification, apoptosis-inducing activity, and polyethylene glycol (PEG) modification of RIP from the bitter melon seeds. The protein has a homogenous N-terminal sequence of NAsp- Val-Ser-Phe-Arg. Moreover, the RIP displayed strong apoptosis-inducing activity a...

We developed and analyzed two types of transgenic mice: rat insulin II promoter-ghrelin transgenic (RIP-G Tg) and rat glucagon promoter-ghrelin transgenic mice (RGP-G Tg). The pancreatic tissue ghrelin concentration measured by C-terminal radioimmunoassay (RIA) and plasma desacyl ghrelin concentration of RIP-G Tg were about 1000 and 3.4 times higher than those of nontransgenic littermates, resp...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE This study was performed to assess the accuracy of respiratory inductive plethysmographic (RIP) estimated lung volume changes at varying positive end-expiratory pressures (PEEP) during different degrees of acute respiratory failure. METHODS Measurements of inspiratory tidal volume were validated in eight piglets during constant volume ventilation at incremental and de...