present study is an extension of earlier work carried out on two-lane two way roads in the two provinces of pakistan i.e. n-25, n-55 and n-5 regarding the measure of operating speed and development of operating speed prediction models. curved sections of two-lane rural highways are the main location of run-off road accidents. in addition to that the road alignment having combination of geometri...

2 Architecture In this paper, firstly we discuss the architecture of a flexible automated production system under which all components are well-modulized. Then, a solution, EMFAK(Event-driven Multi-tasking Flexible Automation Kernel) is proposed to speed up the construction of system control. At last, a flexible assembly system using EMFAK is described to show how to apply it to a real flexible...

We designed and fabricated a four-channel reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer based on silicon photonic wire waveguide controlled through thermo-optic effect. The effective footprint of the device is about 1000 x 500 microm(2). The minimum insertion loss is about 10.7 dB and the tuning bandwidth about 17 nm. The average tuning power efficiency is about 6.187 mW/nm and the tuning speed a...

To overcome the drawbacks of using a traditional proportional‐integral‐derivative (PID) control method for a robot driver system, such as requiring preliminary offline learning, big overshoot and large speed fluctuation, a new method for speed tracking of a robot driver system based on sliding mode control is proposed in this paper. Firstly, the coordinated control model ...

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) was widely accepted as the de facto standard in many securityrelated fields such as Embedded Development, Information Management, and Network Communication etc. In this paper, we firstly study the theory of AES algorithm and then conduct performance analysis of AES algorithm on MPC processor whose frequency is 800MHz according to the superscalar pipeline o...

MicroRNAs play an important role in the etiology and progression of many diseases, including intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). The miRNA miR-129-5P regulates autophagy in various cancers, but its role in human nucleus pulposus (NP) cells is unclear. The present study investigated whether miR-129-5p regulates the expression of Beclin-1 which is known to induce autophagy in NP cells by eva...

Introduction. ............................................................ 129 Fiber Types. ............................................................ 130 Historical introduction. ................................................. 130 Classification and terminology. ........................................... 131 Contractile properties of different types of fiber. ............................ ...

Physicochemical environments............................................... 127 Protection oflabile systems ................................................ 128 Impounding of metabolites .................................................. 128 Lend-lease of critical cofactors.............................................. 129 Imponderables..............................................................

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the role of miR-129-5p in irradiation-induced autophagy in breast cancer cells and to investigate its downstream regulation in autophagy-related radiosensitivity. MATERIAL AND METHODS Relative miR-129-5p expression in breast cancer cell lines MCF-7, MDA-MB-231, BT474, and BT549, and in 1 non-tumorigenic breast epithelial cell line, MCF-10A, was compared....