Aluminium foam sandwich structures have excellent energy absorption capacity, combined with good mechanical properties and low density. Some of the authors this paper proposed an innovative Metallic Foam Shell protective device against flying ballast impact damage in railway axles. A closed-cell aluminium was chosen for device. The main goal study experimental investigation responses panels. Lo...

objective: barberry root extract contains various alkaloids that are considered as antioxidants. beneficial effect of aqueous extract of berberis integerrima root (aebir) was evaluated for renal function in diabetic rats induced by stz. material and methods: diabetes was induced by i.p. injection of streptozotocin (65 mg/kg bw) to rats, after 15 h of fasting. diabetic rats were randomly grouped...

background: dna immunization with plasmid dna encoding bacterial, viral, parasitic and tumor antigens has been reported to trigger protective immunity. objective: to evaluate the use of a dna immunization strategy for protection against anthrax, a plasmid was constructed. methods: the partialsequence of protective antigen of bacillus anthracis, amino acids 175-764, as a potent immunogenic targe...

results the mean age and work experience of workers were 31.39 ± 5.6 and 4.35 ± 2.5 years, respectively. among the exposed-to-noise personnel, 7.35% used hpds constantly; 75% used hpds for only short periods of time (less than four hours) and 17.65% did not make use of them at all. regarding the sound intensity and the level of noise reduction of hpds, among the 112 workers who used such device...

This paper studies a reliability modeling for $k$ -out-of- notation="LaTeX">$n$ : notation="LaTeX">$F$ load sharing system that operates in shock environment. Such consists of protective device and components with sharing. The base ha...