As robot tasks in space nuclear and medical environments be come more widespread the issues of reliability and safety for robots are becoming more critical Attempts to address these is sues have resulted in a recent surge of activity in robot fault tol erance We concentrate on fault tolerance in the robot controller and highlight the importance and potential of multiprocessor con trol architect...

Transforming growth factor-beta2-treated Ag-pulsed APC mimic APC from the immune privileged eye, and provide signals that generate regulatory T (Tr) cells and mediate peripheral tolerance. We postulated that TGF-beta2-treated Ag-pulsed APC (tolerogenic APC (tol-APC)) might also orchestrate regulation of immune mediated pathogenesis in nonimmune privileged tissues such as the lung. We used an ad...

Wheat improvement for drought tolerance requires reliable assessment of drought tolerance variability among segregating populations. One hundred and fifty-one F3 and F4 families of durum wheat derived from a cross between Oste-Gata (as drought tolerance) and Massara-1 (as susceptible) genotypes were evaluated both under moisture stress (E1) and non-stress (E2) field environments using a randomi...

inheritance of several yield-based drought resistance indices was studied by a halfdiallel method using seven winter wheat varieties. the parental lines were such chosen as to represent a broad range of drought stress resistance. the experiment was conducted in a split-plot design at the research farm, faculty of agriculture, zanjan university, iran, in 1998. irrigated vs. rainfed regimes w...

breeding for environmental stress is one of the most important goals in plant breeding. among stresses, drought stress has high influencing on limitation of wheat production. so, in order to find the best drought tolerant genotypes, 24 genotypes were planted in three separate experiments in ardebil: one with optimum irrigation (control), another with water stress at pre-anthesis stage and the o...

This study assessed screening thresholds for determining workers exposure to toluene (Tol) by urinary Tol (Tol-U) and proposed applicable criteria for on-site settings. Participants' urine samples (n = 21) were collected at the end of the workday during the latter half of a week and the Tol-U concentration was assayed. Simultaneously, each worker's exposure dose to Tol in the breathing zone dur...