Our recent studies show that chronic oral nicotine partially protects against striatal damage in 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-treated nonhuman primates. To identify the cellular changes associated with this protective action, we investigated the effects of nicotine treatment on stimulus-evoked dopamine release, dopamine turnover, and synaptic plasticity in striatum from le...

A constitutive multi-laminate based elastic-plastic model developed to be capable of accounting induced anisotropic behavior of granular material such as sand. The fabric feature or grain orientation characteristic effects through medium are considered in a rational way under any complex stress path, including cyclic loading. The salient feature of the developed model is a non-associative on pl...

in this paper, tripled coincidence points of mappings satisfying  -contractive conditions in the framework of partially ordered gb-metric spaces are obtained. our results extend the results of aydi et al. [h. aydi, e. karapnar and w. shatanawi, tripled xed point results in generalized metric space, j. applied math., volume 2012, article id 314279, 10 pages]. moreover, some examples of the mai...

abstract. let r be a 2-torsion free ring with identity. in this paper, first we prove that any jordan left derivation (hence, any left derivation) on the full matrix ringmn(r) (n  2) is identically zero, and any generalized left derivation on this ring is a right centralizer. next, we show that if r is also a prime ring and n  1, then any jordan left derivation on the ring tn(r) of all n×n up...

in this paper, we give some determinantal and permanental representations of generalized lucas polynomials, which are a general form of generalized bivariate lucas p-polynomials, ordinary lucas and perrin sequences etc., by using various hessenberg matrices. in addition, we show that determinant and permanent of these hessenberg matrices can be obtained by using combinations. then we show, the ...

The calculation of the collapse load spherical domes is addressed using a semianalytical approach under hypothesis small displacements and perfect plasticity. procedure based on numerical approximation self-stress that represents projection balance equilibrium null space finite dimensional manifold. so-obtained self-equilibrated stress span superimposed onto finite-element linear elastic soluti...

A mechanism-based theory of strain gradient (MSG) plasticity has been proposed in Part I of this paper. The theory is based on a multiscale framework linking the microscale notion of statistically stored and geometrically necessary dislocations to the mesoscale notion of plastic strain and strain gradient. This theory is motivated by our recent analysis of indentation experiments which strongly...