The study presents two novel approaches for gust response analysis of elastic free aircraft configuration using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools. The direct approach involves full aeroelastic dynamic simulation within a CFD run. The hybrid approach involves computing rigid sharp-edge gust responses in a CFD run, evaluating the gust input forces due to arbitrary gust profiles via convolu...

Based on Navier-Stokes equations and structural and flight dynamic equations of motion, dynamic responses in vertical discrete gust flow perturbation are investigated for a supersonic transport model. A tightly coupled method was developed by the subiteration between aerodynamic equations and dynamic equations of motion. First, under the assumption of rigid-body and single freedom of motion in ...

The relationship between regional blood flow and epicardial S-T segment elevation was studied in 26 open-chest anesthetized dogs with left anterior coronary artery ligations. Changes in myocardial blood flow, measured with 15 plus or minus 5mu (diameter) microspheres labeled with 141-Ce, 85-Sr, and 169-Yb, were correlated with summated S-T segment elevations 15 minutes, 1 hour, and 2 hours afte...

The cortisol/DHEAS ratio has been found to predict different health outcomes. We examined the association between cortisol/DHEAS ratio and metabolic syndrome (MetS) in patients suffering from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. The only subcomponent of MetS positively associated with the cortisol/DHEAS ratio was diastolic blood pressure. Possible reasons for this finding, as well as study limit...

The heptose-less mutant of Escherichia coli, D31m4, bound complement subcomponent C1q and its collagen-like fragments (C1qCLF) with Ka values of 1.4 x 10(8) and 2.0 x 10(8) M-1 respectively. This binding was suppressed by chemical modification of C1q and C1qCLF using diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC). To investigate the role of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) in this binding, biosynthetically labelled [14...

We introduce one of many classes of problems which can be defined in terms of 3-valued functions on the vertices of a graph G = (V, E) of the form f : V + { 1, 0, l}. Such a fknction is said to be a minus dominating function if the sum of its function values over any closed neighborhood is at least one. That is, for every t’ E V, ,f(N[r~])> 1, where N[a] consists of 1: and every vertex adjacent...

SMS [4,6] is an object representation system motivated by the requirements of recognition instead of depiction. It is designed for model invocation, reference frame estimation and matching (roughly as in IMAGINE [5], only with many extensions). It represents strongly visible features and relationships of non-polyhedral manmade objects, integrating curve, surface and volumetric structural descri...

The molecular composition of progenitor toxins produced by a Clostridium botulinum type A strain (A-NIH) was analyzed. The strain produced three types of progenitor toxins (19 S, 16 S, and 12 S) as reported previously. Purified 19 S and 16 S toxins demonstrated the same banding profiles on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), indicating that they consist of the ...