As part of its technology development program for the Army’s Future Combat System (FCS), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been working to develop the enabling communications technology needed to revolutionize the Army’s future land force into a network centric force capable of operation at a level of synchronization, mobility, and force effectiveness which has been here...

The short run effects of financial constraints (FCs) on the expected growth rate of firms and their long-term implications on the evolution of the firm size distribution have been recently investigated by several scholars. In this paper we extend the analysis to a wider and largely unexplored range of possible FCs effects, including the autoregressive and heteroskedastic structure of the firm g...

A fucosylated chondroitin sulfate (FCS-pg) with highly repeated structure from Pearsonothuria graeffei was subjected to a in vitro fermentation model to investigate its fermentability and effects on human gut microflora. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) measurement found FCS-pg can be fermented to short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) by gut microflora from partial human fecal samples. 1...

Total internal reflection fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (TIR-FCS) allows us to measure diffusion constants and the number of fluorescent molecules in a small area of an evanescent field generated on the objective of a microscope. The application of TIR-FCS makes possible the characterization of reversible association and dissociation rates between fluorescent ligands and their receptors...

This paper addresses the energy management strategy (EMS) for a fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle (FC-HEV). The purpose of this paper is to ensure an optimal power splitting between the fuel cell system (FCS) and the battery pack, taking into account the operating conditions of the FCS. The FCS is a multiphysics system, and consequently, its energetic performances depend on the operating condit...

OBJECTIVE The signaling pathways mediating proliferation and apoptosis in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) are not well established. It has previously been shown that activation of the phosphoinositide 3-OH kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway or the ERK 1/2 pathway can mediate anti-apoptotic function in different cell types. This study determined the specific contribution of the PI3K/Akt and ERK pathw...

Effects of triiodothyronine (T3) on the expression of cytoskeletal and myofibrillar proteins in adult rat cardiomyocytes (ARC) were followed during two weeks of culture in the presence of 20% T3-depleted (stripped) FCS. Control cultures expressed mainly b -myosin heavy chain (MHC) mRNA. T3 caused a switch to a -MHC expression and a dose-dependent increase of a -smooth muscle ( a -sm) actin mRNA...

In this study, hybrid fiber mat (HFPP-CS) consisting of both chlorinated polypropylene and chitosan fibers (FPP-Cl FCS) is obtained by assembling layer-by-layer for the first time using electrospinning process. Morphological, wettability, structural thermal properties HFPP-CS are investigated in detail Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), water contact angle (WCA) measurement, fourier transform ...

UNLABELLED Fairy circles (FCs) are barren circular patches of soil surrounded by grass species. Their origin is poorly understood. FCs feature in both the gravel plains and the dune fields of the Namib Desert. While a substantial number of hypotheses to explain the origin and/or maintenance of fairy circles have been presented, none are completely consistent with either their properties or thei...

1. Overview ........................................................1 2. Specification of Requirements ...................................3 3. Signaling FCS Retention with MPLS-Based Pseudowires .............3 4. Signaling FCS Retention with L2TPv3-Based Pseudowires ...........4 5. Security Considerations .........................................5 6. Applicability Statement .......................