Micromechanics models for the stiffness of aligned short-fiber composites are reviewed and evaluated. These include the dilute model based on Eshelby’s equivalent inclusion, the self-consistent model for finite-length fibers, Mori-Tanaka type models, bounding models, the Halpin-Tsai equation and its extensions, and shear lag models. Several models are found to be equivalent to the Mori-Tanaka a...

The silkworm Bombyx mori L. (B. mori) has a significant impact on the economy by producing more than 80% of the globally produced raw silk. The exposure of silkworm to pesticides may cause adverse effects on B. mori, such as a reduction in the production and quality of silk. This study aims to assay the effect of venom from the jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai on growth, cuticle and acetylcholinest...

Bombyx mori and Bombyx mandarina are morphologically and physiologically similar. In this study, we compared the nucleotide variations in the complete mitochondrial (mt) genomes between the domesticated silkmoth, B. mori, and its wild ancestors, Chinese B. mandarina (ChBm) and Japanese B. mandarina (JaBm). The sequence divergence and transition mutation ratio between B. mori and ChBm are signif...

The theoretical description of the dynamics of liquids by the theory of Mori and Zwanzig is in practice mostly applied to simple liquids, where the molecules have no internal structure. Recently a second-order Mori-Zwanzig model for the incoherent intermediate scattering function has been employed in order to interpret quasielastic neutron scattering QENS experiments on water and aqueous soluti...

Three Dimensional Simulation of Catalytic Cracking Reactions in an Industrial Scale Riser Using a 11-lump Kinetic Model Ariane C. Barbosa, Gabriela C. Lopes, Leonardo M. Rosa, Milton Mori* Waldir P. Martignoni School of Chemical Engineering, University of Campinas, 500 Albert Einstein Avenue,13083-970 Campinas-SP, Brazil Department of Chemical Engineering, University Federal of São Carlos, Wash...

Established animal models have accelerated our understanding of the mechanisms involved in lifespan determination. However, more experimental animals are required to clarify the complex mechanisms behind the phenomena of aging and lifespan. In this study, we reported the variation of lifespan in nine distinct silkworm strains. Lifespan correlated significantly with BmFoxO gene expression in the...

We study birational transformations of certain fibtations of degree 4 del Pezzo surfaces over P, into other Mori fibre spaces, using Cox rings. We show that these Mori fibre spaces have a (relatively) big pliability although they are not rational. Our methods can be applied to study birational geometry of Mori dream spaces with low rank Cox ring.

Small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) modification (SUMOylation) is an important and widely used reversible modification system in eukaryotic cells. It regulates various cell processes, including protein targeting, transcriptional regulation, signal transduction, and cell division. To understand its role in the model lepidoptera insect Bombyx mori, a recombinant baculovirus was constructed to ex...