Methanol (MeOH) is a promising low-carbon liquid fuel to provide global energy security with potential achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in transport sector. However, its utilization diesel engines at high MeOH substitution ratios (MSR) suffers from misfire or pressure rise rates owing distinct physio-chemical properties. This issue addressed the present study by adopting negative-valve...

Sensing skin wetness is linked to inputs arising from cutaneous cold-sensitive afferents. As thermosensitivity to cold varies significantly across the torso, we investigated whether similar regional differences in wetness perception exist. We also investigated the regional differences in thermal pleasantness and whether these sensory patterns are influenced by ambient temperature. Sixteen males...

Injury of the aortic isthmus is the second most frequent cause of death in cases of blunt traumatic injury. Conventional open repair is related to significant morbidity and mortality. Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has increasing role in traumatic isthmic rupture, as it avoids the thoracotomy-related morbidity, aortic cross clamping, and cardiopulmonary bypass. Additionally to the ...

The Arabidopsis thaliana genome contains two genes encoding NAD-MEs [NAD-dependent malic enzymes; NAD-ME1 (TAIR accession number At4G13560) and NAD-ME2 (TAIR accession number At4G00570)]. The encoded proteins are localized to mitochondria and assemble as homo- and hetero- dimers in vitro and in vivo. In the present work, the kinetic mechanisms of NAD-ME1 and -ME2 homodimers and NAD-MEH (NAD-ME ...

comparing literary views of the poets and writers, as the creators of literary texts and those of the critics has rarely been noticed in the area of literary criticism. this article, studies attar’s point of views on various issues of poetry including rhyme, rhythm, poetic inspiration, addressee, utterance, meaning and didactic poem. the author of the article studies four masnavis of attar –ela...

Air temperature (Tair) is critical to modeling environmental processes (e.g. snow/glacier melting) in high-elevation areas of the Tibetan Plateau (TP). To resolve issue that Tair observations are scarce TP western part and at high elevation, many studies have estimated daily air temperatures by using MODIS land surface (LST) various reanalysis datasets. These estimates however inadequate for su...

Brassica ASTRA is a public database for genomic information on Brassica species. The database incorporates expressed sequences with Swiss-Prot and GenBank comparative sequence annotation as well as secondary Gene Ontology (GO) annotation derived from the comparison with Arabidopsis TAIR GO annotations. Simple sequence repeat molecular markers are identified within resident sequences and mapped ...

TAIR (The Arabidopsis Information Resource) is the model organism database (MOD) for Arabidopsis thaliana, a model plant with a literature corpus of about 39 000 articles in PubMed, with over 4300 new articles added in 2011. We have developed a literature curation workflow incorporating both automated and manual elements to cope with this flood of new research articles. The current workflow can...