In this study, the structural reliability of plate-stiffened prismatic pressure vessels was analyzed over time. A analysis performed using a time-dependent method based on response surface (RSM). The vessel had rectangular cross-section with repeated internal load-bearing structures. For analysis, structure modeled as strip, and to identify changes in index when general corrosion pitting occurr...

INTRODUCTIONPCR-based whole-genome amplification (WGA) has the goal of generating microgram quantities of genome-representative DNA from picogram or nanogram amounts of starting material. This amplification should introduce little, or ideally no, representational bias. Unlike other techniques for WGA, PCR-based methods are generally less affected by DNA quality and are more applicable to DNA ex...

C appreciate that there is interplay between the actions of the different subtypes of receptor and hence the value of drugs which target multiple receptor subtypes. Abstract The opioid system comprises four receptor subtypes: m (MOP), k (KOP), d (DOP), now called the ‘classical’ opioid receptors, and the ‘non classical’ nociceptin/orphanin FQ peptide (N/OFQ) receptor (NOP). Selective endogenous...

Concentration of dissolved and particulate carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) were measured daily and seasonally in the water column of a coral reef lagoon at Ishigaki Island. Concentrations of dissolved inorganic N and P (DIN, DIP), dissolved organic C and N (DOC, DON), particulate organic C, and particulate N and P (POC, PN, PP) were usually higher in the lagoon than at offshore sta...

P olarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems have become highly fruitful thanks to their wide area coverage and day and night all-weather capabilities. Several polarimetric SARs have been flown over the last few decades with a variety of polarimetric SAR imaging modes; traditional ones are linear singleand dual-pol modes. More sophisticated ones are full-pol modes. Other alternative mod...

Complementation of function after coexpression of pairs of nonfunctional G protein-coupled receptors that contain distinct inactivating mutations supports the hypothesis that such receptors exist as dimers. Chimeras between members of the metabotropic glutamate receptor-like family have been particularly useful because the N-terminal ligand binding and heptahelical transmembrane elements can be...

Abstract Seismic Rayleigh wave ellipticity measurements are the horizontal-to-vertical ratio of particle motion, and sensitive to subsurface structure beneath a seismic station. H/V ratios measured from ambient vibrations Earth being increasingly used in glaciological applications determine glacier ice sheet thickness, velocities firn properties. Using newly developed degree-of-polarisation (DO...

Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient element of phytoplankton, as well a limiting factor for phytoplankton growth. It controls the succession blooms from diatoms to dinoflagellates, especially in East China Sea (ECS), where eutrophication serious. Most studies have only considered single aspect dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP) or organic (DOP). In contrast, we investigated growth interac...

We ask whether dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and phosphorus (DOP) could account for previously identified Arctic Ocean (AO) inorganic nutrient budget imbalances. We assess transports to/from the AO by calculating indicative budgets. Marked DON:DOP ratio differences between the Amerasian and Eurasian AO reflect different physical and biogeochemical pathways. DON and DOP are exported to the No...

Two apparently opposing DOP models exist in the literature: one which computes the parse tree involving the most frequent subtrees from a treebank and one which computes the parse tree involving the fewest subtrees from a treebank. This paper proposes an integration of the two models which outperforms each of them separately. Together with a PCFGreduction of DOP we obtain improved accuracy and ...