As a part of the Broader Approach activities from 2007 to 2016, research and development on blanket related materials and tritium technology have been initiated toward DEMO by the EU and Japan. According to the common interest of EU and Japan toward DEMO, R&D on reduced activation ferritic martensitic (RAFM) steels as a DEMO blanket structural material, silicon carbide composites (SiCf/SiC), ad...

Hybrid adhesives can be developed using commercially available adhesive materials and customized to the required loading conditions. In this paper, SPABOND™ 820HTA (non-toughened) 840HTA (toughened) are hybridized by two strategies fabricated machine manual mixing methods. The manufacturing hybridization effects on bulk properties evaluated dynamic mechanical analysis, quasi-static tensile, V-n...

Virtual oscillator control (VOC) is a type of nonlinear grid-forming controller for dc/ac inverters. Compared with the droop method, original VOC has faster transient response in islanded mode. However, its output voltage always contains third-order harmonic, resulting significant third-harmonic current, especially grid-connected In order to eliminate this notch-type filter typically employed, ...

Podocyte apoptosis contributes to the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy (DN). However, the mechanisms that mediate high glucose (HG)-induced podocyte apoptosis remain poorly understood. Conditionally immortalized mouse podocytes were cultured in HG medium. A chemical inhibitor or a specific short-hairpin RNA (shRNA) vector was used to inhibit the activation of the Notch pathway and the PI3K/...

BACKGROUND Better knowledge of the suprascapular notch anatomy may help to prevent and to assess more accurately suprascapular nerve entrapment syndrome. Our purposes were to verify the reliability of the existing data, to assess the differences between the two genders, to verify the correlation between the dimensions of the scapula and the suprascapular notch, and to investigate the relationsh...