Residual stresses have become an important player in the field of the structural integrity for many years. Having an exact knowledge of residual stress distributions can be essential in designing the engineering components as unexpected failures are inevitable where such stresses are ignored.  There are many residual stresses measurement techniques including destructive and non-destructive ones...

The involvement of inhibitory transmitters for Ptychodiscus brevis toxin (PbTx)-induced depression of spinal synaptic transmission in neonatal rats was investigated. Stimulation of a dorsal root evoked monosynaptic reflex (MSR) and polysynaptic reflex (PSR) potentials in the segmental ventral root. The PbTx depressed the reflexes in a concentration-dependent manner and this depression was block...

Many design flaws and incorrect analyses of cryptographic protoAppeared in the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mathematical Methods, Models and Architectures for Computer Network Security — MMM’01 (V. Gorodetski, V. Skormin and L. Popyack, editors), pp.??–??, c Springer-Verlag LNCS ???, St. Petersburg, Russia, 21–23 May 2001 cols can be traced to inadequate specification lang...

Breed-and-burn Molten Salt Reactors are an interesting option of reactor design that allow high fuel utilization while operating on open cycle. Such reactors usually require specialized codes in order to model its cycle and the flowing unmoderated core. In this work, we propose a perform preliminary analysis homogeneous chloride salt single-fluid design. The is analyzed using EQL0D tool start-u...

Experimental work at the LR-0 reactor was carried out to determine possibility of mock-up neutron field creation for fluoride salt-based reactors. Previous calculations and experiments have shown that fast part molten salt (MSR) spectrum is shaped by fluorine even Teflon material suitable neutronics in energy range. Properly selected indices can describe MSR thermal intermediate parts spectrum....

This paper proposes an approach to sentencelevel paraphrase identification by text canonicalization. The source sentence pairs are first converted into surface text that approximates canonical forms. A decision tree learning module which employs simple lexical matching features then takes the output canonicalized texts as its input for a supervised learning process. Experiments on the Microsoft...

Alternative energy sources, such as various fuel cell technologies, have attracted intense attention due to their high efficiency and low emissions of pollutants. Methanol, with its high hydrogen/carbon ratio, low sulfur content and the absence of carbon–carbon bonds, has been identified as a highly suitable source for onboard production of hydrogen [1]. Among several reactions for converting m...

Positron emission tomography was used to investigate the functional anatomy of mental simulation of routes (MSR) in five normal volunteers. Normalized regional cerebral blood flow was measured while subjects mentally navigated between landmarks of a route which had been previously learned by actual navigation. This task was contrasted with both static visual imagery of landmarks (VIL) and silen...

We have recently identified a new G protein-coupled receptor, msr/apj, whose transcripts are detected in the endothelium of the primary blood vessels and the newly forming heart (Mech. Dev. 1999;84:199). Its expression during formation of the embryonic vasculature incited us to investigate whether expression of the receptor also increased during the formation of retinal vessels, which occurs po...