In this study, idealized simulations of squall line traversing a bell-shape mountain in a three-dimensional framework are conducted using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, version 3.2.0, with 2-km horizontal grid size and 60 vertically stretched layers. Water vapor and condensate budgets are examined, and the temporal variations of four microphysics ratios, including precipitati...

PiggyBac system has been shown to have a high efficiency to mediate gene transfer. However, there are no reports on its efficiency to mediate multiplex transgenes in mouse embryonic stem cells. Here we first established an immortalized feeder cell line by introducing four antibiotic resistance genes simultaneously into the original SNL 76/7 feeder cell line utilizing the PiggyBac system. This i...

shiga toxins (stxs) are bacterial virulence factors produced by shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 and escherichia coli strains. stxs are critical factors for the development of diseases such as severe bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome. additionally, stxs trigger the secretion of pro- inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, particularly in monocytes or macrophages. the inflammatory cyto...

background: prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among men. new gene expressed in prostate (ngep), is a prostate-specific gene expressed only in normal prostate and prostate cancer tissue. because of its selective expression in prostate cancer cell surface, ngep is a potential immunotherapeutic target. to target the ngep in prostate cancer, it is essential to investigat...

introduction: the objective of this study was, wastewater quality investigation and removal efficiency of contaminants from the wastewater tile factory by using  coagulants includes ferric chloride, ferric sulfate and ferrous, aluminum sulfate and poly aluminum chloride in order to reuse it in the processing line. methods: this is an applied study. with regard to shiftwork schedules of the fact...

High volume automated manufacturing lines often run at efficiencies as low as seventy percent-even for well-understood, mature products. Despite continuous improvement efforts over the last two decades that resulted in increased line speed, overall line efficiency (the actual number of parts produced divided by the maximum number of parts the line is capable of producing) has typically remained...

Thermodynamic equilibrium computations are usually the most time consuming component in compositional reservoir flow simulation. A Compositional Space Adaptive Tabulation (CSAT) approach has been developed in order to speed up the Equation of State (EoS) computations. The methodology adaptively parameterizes the compositional space using a small number of tie-lines, which are assembled into a t...

Using search directions of a recent class of three--term conjugate gradient methods, modified versions of the Hestenes-Stiefel and Polak-Ribiere-Polyak methods are proposed which satisfy the sufficient descent condition. The methods are shown to be globally convergent when the line search fulfills the (strong) Wolfe conditions. Numerical experiments are done on a set of CUTEr unconstrained opti...

This thesis includes an investigation of the starting capability of a high efficiency synchronous motor for direct on-line industrial applications. The approach is to use a hybrid rotor concept to achieve the starting properties of an induction motor and the steady state performance of a synchronous reluctance motor. The hybrid motor rated at 20 kW is compared and evaluated against a same size ...

We present a five phases approach for the cost-efficient design of communication platforms. We start with complete and executable models of the system function that capture all essential parts of a reference application, i.e. processing kernels, data and control flow, and timing constraints. We analyze such an architectureindependent model to narrow the design space and derive a most flexible i...