We investigated the importance of the myosin head in thick filament formation and myofibrillogenesis by generating transgenic Drosophila lines expressing either an embryonic or an adult isoform of the myosin rod in their indirect flight muscles. The headless myosin molecules retain the regulatory light-chain binding site, the alpha-helical rod and the C-terminal tailpiece. Both isoforms of head...

This paper examines the extremely low cycle fatigue (ELCF) fracture of concentrically loaded square hollow section (SHS) braces subjected to cyclic loading. Numerical analyses are presented for both individual bracing members and integrated into braced frames (CBFs). The behaviour was predicted using solid finite element (FE) simulations that employed a ductile model nonlinear damage evolution ...

Three compounds with a bent rod-like aromatic core and with three alkoxy chains at each end were synthesised by click reaction. The compounds form a columnar liquid crystal phase with non-centrosymmetric trigonal p31m symmetry, the columns having a 3-arm star-like cross-section.

Noncentral chi-square distributions play an important role in statistics. They occur for instance as exact or limiting distributions of test statistics under alternatives. To examine the power functions of such tests we come across the problem of comparing distribution functions of noncentral chi-square variables. In this section inequalities are presented, which make such a comparison possible...

This report has been prepared as a part of the Agreement on Research Participation and Technical Exchange under the International Code Application and Maintenance Program. KS-i Test 35-1 data on the behaviour of the heated rod temperatures in the partially uncovered VVER Core model were simulated with RELAP5/MOD3.2 to assess the code, especially its non equilibrium (unequal phase temperatures) ...

Multigroup cross section (MG XS) generation by the UNIST in-house Monte Carlo (MC) code MCS for fast reactor analysis using nodal diffusion codes is reported. The feasibility of approach quantified two sodium reactors (SFRs) specified in OECD/NEA SFR benchmark: a 1000 MWth metal-fueled (MET-1000) and 3600 oxide-fueled (MOX-3600). accuracy few-group XSs generated verified another MC code, Serpen...

Wind tunnel measurements of the effects on twodimensional section characteristics of square ridge excrescences and of some gaps typical of those found round trailing-edge controls have been made at high subsonic Mach number and at Reynolds numbers up to 15.6 x 106, based on section chord length. The incremental drag due to a square ridge was found to be generally underestimated by applying an e...