In this work, suspension characterization of a rapid transit vehicle is performed with a multi-body dynamic model that represents full degrees of freedom of a rapid transit vehicle. The effects of lateral suspension properties on passenger ride comfort and stability are investigated by variation of critical suspension parameters using design of experiment method. The critical suspension propert...

This paper proposes a novel design framework for semiactive nonlinear fuzzy control system that is a linear matrix inequality (LMI)-based systematic design methodology for nonlinear control of building structures employing magnetorheological (MR) dampers with multi-objective requirements. Multiple optimum linear controllers are designed in terms of LMIs such that global asymptotical stability a...

Repetitive exposure to methylphenidate (MPD) elicits sensitization to its locomotor effects. Drugs that affect the GABA system may modify adaptations to drug exposure. Therefore, we have examined the effect of sodium valproate, which enhances GABA function, on the development of sensitization to MPD using an automated, computerized animal activity monitoring system to record each rat's motor ac...

39 The nucleus accumbens (NAc) has been shown to play a key role in the brain’s response to methylphenidate 40 (MPD). The present study focuses on neuronal recording from this structure. The study postulates that repetitive 41 exposure to the same dose of MPD will elicit in some rats behavioral sensitization and in others tolerance. 42 Furthermore, the study postulates that NAc neuronal activit...

For many decades, myeloproliferative disorders (MPD) were largely neglected orphan diseases. The conceptual work of William Dameshek in 1951 provided the basis for understanding MPD as a continuum of related syndromes, possibly with a common pathogenetic cause. Recognition of the clonal origin of peripheral blood cells in MPD in 1976 and the ability to grow erythroid colonies in vitro in the ab...

A new class of languages, called multi-push-down (mpd), that generalize the classical context-free (cf, or Chomsky type 2) ones is introduced. These languages preserve some important properties of cf languages: a generalization of the Chomsky-Schh utzenberger homomorphic characterization theorem, the Parikh theorem and a \pumping lemma" are proved. Multi-push-down languages are an AFL. Their re...

The novel alternated dual task (ADT) arranged rats to learn T-maze spontaneous alternation task and radial arm maze (RAM) task alternatively, and by doing ADT, rats could acquire the tasks more easily than non alternated dual task (NADT) group. Also retention capacity of ADT group was significantly more and ADT help to learn a complex task faster than learning it in isolation from other tasks. ...

Male mammary Paget's disease (MPD) is extremely rare. Furthermore, MPD with invasion downward into the dermis of the male nipple has been reported rarely. A 56-year-old Japanese man presented with a lump and eczema in the right nipple-areola area. Ultrasonography revealed only a cystic lesion below the right areola. With a diagnosis of MPD with invasion into the dermis associated with ductal ca...

Mevalonate pyrophosphate decarboxylase (MPD) is considered to be a cytosolic protein. Recently, other groups reported that MPD is mostly located in the peroxisomes. In this study, we examined whether the expression of MPD in mice depends on the proliferation of peroxisomes, and whether MPD is predominantly located in the peroxisomes or the cytosol of mice. No increase in the protein level of MP...

Dormancy breaking and germination requirements were determined for seeds of the eastern North American (eNA) species Sanicula canadensis, Sanicula gregaria and Sanicula trifoliata, and the data compared to those available for the European–Asian (EurA) congener Sanicula europaea. Seeds of the three eNA species had underdeveloped embryos that were physiologically dormant, i.e., morphophysiologica...