The strain-rate dependence of a commercial grade ABS copolymer has been analyzed in both compression and tension. By measuring two loading geometries, the hydrostatic pressure-dependence on material's deformation behavior can be established. An alternative method to determine pressure-dependence, based difference for various presented. It was shown an effective technique, thermorheologically si...

In this paper, an innovative solution to minimize noise emission, acting on the flow ripple, in a prototype External Gear Pump (EGP) is presented. Firstly, new tool capable completely simulate pump’s typologies, called EgeMATor, presented; hydraulic model, adopted for simulation, based lumped parameter method using control volume approach. Starting from pump drawing, thanks different subroutine...

The main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in ESP and EGP subdisciplines of applied linguistics. Eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics, and they were sorted according to Thompson and Tribble’s (2...

Nowadays, as the Internet services increase faster than ever before, government systems are reinvented as E-government services. Therefore, government procurement sectors have to face challenges brought by the explosion of service information. This paper presents a novel method for E-government procurement (eGP) to search for the optimal procurement scheme (OPS). Item-based collaborative filter...

The e-government implies interoperability between the various existing administrative services so that the work of institutions can be more transparent for the citizen, more reliable and economic. It is the key problem in the development of the egovernment services. To this purpose, we define an approach to develop the mechanism of interoperability of information systems of the e-government. We...

Taeniid tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus is the causative agent of Echinococcosis, an important zoonosis with worldwide distribution. In this study, a diagnostic antigen P-29 was cloned from E. granulosus and expressed in Escherichia coli. Sequence analysis showed that EgP-29 contains 717-bp open reading frame and encodes a protein of 238 amino acid residues with a predicted molecular weight of...

Ewing's sarcoma is a rare bone tumor that affects children and adolescents. We have recently succeeded to induce Ewing's sarcoma-like small round cell tumor in mice by expression of EWS-ETS fusion genes in murine embryonic osteochondrogenic progenitors. The Ewing's sarcoma precursors are enriched in embryonic superficial zone (eSZ) cells of long bone. To get insights into the mechanisms of Ewin...

We previously reported that 10 nights of moderate hypoxia (;15% O2; 10 h per night) improved glucose homeostasis (glucose disposal rate [GDR] during a hyperinsulinemic-euglycemic clamp) in obese men (1). Goossens (2) now raises some important questions about our study and puts forward an intriguing alternate hypothesis to explain our results that nightly hypoxia treatment improves whole-body in...

The entropy principle has been commonly considered to be a selection principle. A history/philosophy-of-science analysis of development in thermodynamic thought was carried out based on historical account contributions thermodynamics nine Schools plus that Mayer/Joule (the Mayer-Joule principle), publication Treatise Heat and Energy, maximum production (MEPP), process ecology formulated by Ulan...

the main purpose of this study was to examine the citation patterns of discussion sections employed by local and international article writers in esp and egp subdisciplines of applied linguistics. eighty article discussion sections were selected from well-established local and international journals in the field of applied linguistics, and they were sorted according to thompson and tribble’s (2...