European Train Control System (ETCS) is a signaling, control and train protection system that is replacing the national, incompatible safety systems within Europe. ETCS consists of the on-board subsystem (composed of ERTMS/ETCS on-board equipment, the on-board part of the GSM-R radio system and speci c transmission modules for existing national train control systems), and the track-side sub-sys...

AIM To investigate RBC-NOS dependent NO signaling during in vivo RBC aging in health and disease. METHOD RBC from fifteen healthy volunteers (HC) and four patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) were separated in seven subpopulations by Percoll density gradient centrifugation. RESULTS The proportion of old RBC was significantly higher in DM compared to HC. In both groups, in vivo aging ...

The public sewage (PS) and night soil mixed with johkasou sludge (JO) have similar chemical compositions; however, the concentrations of organic matter nitrogen compounds were different. We investigated microbial community rotating biological contactor (RBC) units treating PS JO, in which RBC was submerged liquor activated sludge. Here, we observed that compositions at phylum class levels betwe...

Neonatal erythrocytes (N-RBC) are different from adult erythrocytes (A-RBC). N-RBC are larger, less deformable, and undergo enhanced spontaneous and drug-induced endocytosis. The reticulocyte population of N-RBC is also different, consisting primarily of the youngest (R1) reticulocytes that are motile and capable of receptor-mediated endocytosis. Processes such as motility could require a contr...

A recently proposed streaming media file caching algorithm, called Resource Based Caching (RBC), considers the impact of both file size and required delivery bandwidth in making cache insertion and replacement decisions. Previous comparisons between RBC and the least-frequency-used (LFU) policy conclude that RBC provides a better byte hit ratio in the cache. This paper revisits this policy comp...