A considerable amount of research is currently being done on electromechanical valve (EMV) actuators as a potential replacement for the camshaft in order to achieve variable valve timing. Unfortunately, EMV actuators suffer from large impact velocities between the valve, valve seat, and the actuator itself resulting in excessive wear on the system and producing unacceptable levels of noise. Add...

A 30-kDa novel tyrosinase was purified to homogeneity. The Km for L-Dopa and L-tyrosine were determined as 0.42 and 0.25 mM. The 1231 bp (base pair) melC gene and its 167 bp promoter Pskmel were obtained by thermal asymmetric interlaced polymerase chain reaction based on the amino acids fragment obtained from MS results of the purified enzyme. The protein sequence of tyrosinase shows maximum id...

Background In patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), the frequent provocation of ventricular tachycardia during exercise, the sensitivity toward catecholamines, and the response toward antiarrhythmic drug regimen with antiadrenergic properties suggest an involvement of the sympathetic nervous system in arrhythmogenesis. Methods and Results To analyze the presence,...

Social virtual reality (social VR) platforms are gaining popularity among users. Previous qualitative research suggests that feelings of presence can make these an attractive environment to obtain social support from others. Building on exploratory insights, we carried out a quantitative study illuminate how different types in VR facilitate support. The results large survey conducted users ( N ...

Motivated by applications in computer networks, in this talk, we consider a tandem queue with feedback.In this model, both the interarrival time and the service time are exponential. Upon completion of the service at thesecond station, the customer either leaves the system with probability p or goes back together with all customersin the second queue to the first queue with probabil...

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Geometry optimization and vibrational spectra (infrared and Raman spectra) calculations of proteins are carried out by a quantum chemical approach using the EE-GMFCC (electrostatically embedded generalized molecular fractionation with conjugate caps) method (J. Phys. Chem. A, 2013, 117, 7149). The first and second derivatives of the EE-GMFCC energy are derived and employed in geometry optimizat...

THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PSYCHIATRY. By William S. Sadler. C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, 1936. Pp. xxii + 1231. $10. This is the largest text-book of psychiatry in English. It covers the entire field of psychiatry, with special emphasis upon the diagnosis and treatment of the less severe personality disturbances (neuroses) which may be handled in the office of the private practitioner. The book...

The role of IL-6 rs1800795 polymorphism in the development of hypertension has been inclusive. Therefore, the purpose of our study was to determine whether there is an association between IL-6 rs1800795 polymorphism and hypertension risk. PubMed, Embase and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) were searched till Jun 2017. A total of 7 case-control studies with 1231 cases and 1122 cont...