In this study, a hydraulic system generator power converter was modeled to verify the performance of hydraulic-based take-off (PTO) system. Moreover, characteristics and output PTO were analyzed with various load control algorithms applied for maximum control. The simulation verified through comparison actual sea test results. Unlike previous studies on input performance, electrical in study. b...

In the last decade, there has been a growing trend towards flexible body wave energy converters (WECs) enabled by rubber-like elastomeric composite membrane structures that can simplify all aspects of WEC design. Currently, are few literature studies detailing implementations membranes into This paper aims to overcome this reviewing developments, material selection and modelling procedures for ...

Background and Objective: In neurodegenerative disorders, oxidative stress mediated by reactive oxygen species is strongly associated with increased neuronal damages that lead to apoptosis. Pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic gene expressions were changed during cell differentiation that affect cell viability and differentiation. This study was conducted to determine the effects of hydrogen peroxi...

Five common tetracycline resistance genes tet(A), tet(B), tet(M), tet(O) and tet(S) were studied by polymerase chain reaction in 100 bacteria isolated from Iranian fish farms. In the antibiogram test most of the bacteria were either intermediately or completely resistant to tetracycline. Nine isolates out of 46 Aeromonas spp. contained eithe...

In this paper, a concept of floating elastic wave energy converter consisting disk-shaped plate is proposed. The moored to the seabed through series power take-off (PTO) units. A theoretical model based on linear potential flow theory and eigenfunction matching method developed study hydroelastic characteristics evaluate absorption device. PTO system simulated as discrete PTO, moreover, it also...

Tumors express more than a single angiogenic growth factor. To investigate the relative impact of fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) on tumor growth and neovascularization, we generated tumor cell transfectants differing for VEGF and/or FGF-2 expression. Human endometrial adenocarcinoma HEC-1-B-derived Tet-FGF-2 cells that express FGF-2 under the co...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression in many biological processes, but the significance of the interaction between a miRNA and its targets in perennial trees remains largely unknown. Here, we employed transcript profiling and association studies in Populus tomentosa (Pto) to decipher the effect of genetic variation and interactions between Pto-miR156c and its potential targets (Pto-SPL15...

A hybrid system integrating a power take-off (PTO) into floating breakwater is promising candidate for both shoreline protection and commercial wave energy extraction. Although geometric asymmetry important to such PTO-integrated breakwaters, its role in conversion efficiency attenuation poorly understood. In this study, two-dimensional semi-analytical model dealing with floats arbitrary bottom...

The Pto gene was derived originally from the wíld tomato species Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium and confers resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato strains expressing the avirulence gene avrPto. The Fen gene is also derived from L. pimpinellifolium and confers sensitivity to the insecticide fenthion. We have now isolated and characterized the alleles of Pto and Fen from cultivated tomato, L...

Cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2) preferentially liberates arachidonic acid (AA), which is known to be elevated in Alzheimer's disease (AD). The aim of this study was to investigate the possible relationship between enhanced nitric oxide (NO) generation observed in AD and cPLA2 protein level, phosphorylation, and AA release in rat pheochromocytoma cell lines (PC12) differing in amyloid beta se...