The influence of nanoclay on the impact damage resistance of glass fiber–epoxy composites has been investigated using high-velocity repeated ice impact tests. The incorporation of nanoclay into epoxy enhances the impact resistance of the composites. The impact of ice is a realistic scenario for composite structures such as aircraft fuselages, wing skins and fan blades and it is not a completely...

Cotton fiber quality is defined by several traits, which are affected by genotype×environment interaction (GEI). The objectives of this work were to study GEI of fiber traits, the repeatability and the effect of the size of testing environments in detecting cultivar genetic differences by High Volume Instrument (HVI), and the usefulness of two GEI derived stability indices, σ2i and GGE Instabil...

Photovoltaic self-consumption systems are effective at reducing energy consumption from fossil fuels and carbon emissions. Incorporating storage into these enables improved management the optimization of their operation. However, to date, few studies have evaluated compared performance PV with battery storage. In this context, current development High Voltage batteries, research is needed on di...

The relative contributions of the ipsilateral and contralateral cerebellar cortex and deep nuclei to delay eyeblink conditioning have been debated and are difficult to survey entirely using typical electrophysiological and lesion techniques. To address these issues, we used single-event functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in the conscious rabbit to visualize the entire cerebellum simul...

Classical conditioning of the nictitating membrane-eye blink response of rabbits is a simple form of associative motor learning. Lesion studies have shown that performance of learned responses is dependent on the cerebellum, but they have not shown whether there is storage of memories within the cerebellum or distinguished the roles of the cerebellar cortex and nuclei. Reversible inactivations ...

Impact experiments of thick fabric carbon/epoxy laminate specimens, with small thickness ratio, are conducted at distinct energy levels and thicknesses to characterise the damage process. These specimens loading conditions representative a new generation critical structural components in aviation, such as wing spars, landing gear beams fittings, that increasingly being made entirely from compos...

Background: The impact of climate change on human health in rural and tribal communities has drawn the attention scientists. One most crucial climatic factors determining morbidity mortality linked to vector-borne diseases is rainfall. Socioeconomically, poor are anticipated experience its effects harshness with greater acuity. Objective: main objective study compare vulnerability index (HVI) v...

We evaluated the regional pharmacokinetics of doxorubicin after hepatic arterial infusion (HAI) and portal venous infusion (PVI) using a novel system for hepatic venous isolation and charcoal hemoperfusion (HVI-CHP). The HVI-CHP system was used to determine directly the doxorubicin plasma concentration in the hepatic vein and the hepatic venous flow rate, and simultaneously, to eliminate hepati...

Cotton fiber length parameters are used across the cotton industry to select elite germplasm, purchase bales and manage mill throughput. The High Volume Instrument (HVI) provides most commonly parameters, upper half mean (UHML) uniformity index (UI). UI is ratio of (ML) UHML expressed as a percentage. These ML, generated following fibrograph principle highly correlated with two span lengths on ...