Most recent developments in polymers from renewable resources have focused on thermoplastics, whereas there has been no comparable development of plastics with elastomeric properties. Here we evaluate the possibility of developing renewable elastomers based on starch. Potato starch plasticized with glycerol (called plasticized starch, or PLS) was melt-blended with small quantities (5 wt % or 15...

The coexistence of neuronal mitochondrial pathology and synaptic dysfunction is an early pathological feature of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Cyclophilin D (CypD), an integral part of mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP), is involved in amyloid beta (Aβ)-instigated mitochondrial dysfunction. Blockade of CypD prevents Aβ-induced mitochondrial malfunction and the consequent cognitive im...

We consider the minimal see-saw extension of Standard Model with two right-handed singlet fermions $N_{1,2}$ mass at GeV scale, augmented by an effective dipole operator between sterile states. firstly review current bounds on this interaction from fixed-target and collider experiments as well astrophysical cosmological observations. then highlight prospects for testing decay $N_2 \to N_1 \gamm...

In multi-agent pathfinding, MAPP (Wang and Botea 2009; 2010) has previously been shown to be state-of-the-art in terms of scalability and success ratio (i.e., percentage of solved units), on problems involving significantly larger numbers of mobile units than can be tractably handled using optimal algorithms. MAPP further provides a formal characterization of problems it can solve, and low-poly...

BACKGROUND Paracetamol overdose is common but patient stratification is suboptimal. We investigated the usefulness of new biomarkers that have either enhanced liver specificity (microRNA-122 [miR-122]) or provide mechanistic insights (keratin-18 [K18], high mobility group box-1 [HMGB1], and glutamate dehydrogenase [GLDH]). The use of these biomarkers could help stratify patients for their risk ...

We address the problem of multi-agent path planning (MAPP) by taking into account the total energy consumption of all agents, as measured by their cumulative distance travelled. A deterministic meta-heuristic technique called guided iterative prioritized planning (GIPP) is proposed to find good solutions with respect to this cumulative cost measure in a crowded environment. GIPP progressively e...

Bu çalışmanın amacı odun plastik kompozit (OPK) üretiminde dolgu maddesi olarak yumurta kabuğu kullanımının etkisi belirlemek olacaktır. OPK polipropilen, kızılçam unu, ve Maleik Anhidrit Polipropilen (MAPP) kullanılmıştır. Tek vidalı ekstruder kullanılarak elde edilen karışımdan enjeksiyon kalıplama yöntemi ile test numuneleri üretilmiştir. 
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