on analysis of tissue from rats fed GC. Despite the clearcut (P < 0.01) increase in hepatic NP-SH and GSH conseqtuent to GC feeding, there was no alteration in iodothyronine deiodination compared to the group fed glucose alone. These data indicate that the effects of diet on T4 monodeiodination in liver are not mediated by changes in the tissue level of sulfhydryl compounds but rather involve a...

This work evaluates the suitability of iron aluminide coatings for use in high temperature fossil fuel combustion environments, such as boiler applications. The coatings are applied using High Velocity Oxy-Fuel (HVOF) thermal spray techniques. Bulk Fe3Al coatings are known to exhibit excellent oxidation and sulfidation resistance at high temperatures, however, the behavior of HVOF-deposited Fe3...

Previous studies had shown that the amplification factors for cannabinoid receptors, defined as the number of total G proteins activated per occupied receptor, differs between several rat brain regions. In this study, we sought to determine which specific Gi/Goa subunits were activated by CB1 receptors in several rat brain regions and if this coupling might explain the regional differences in r...

The dissection of natural selection and neutral processes remains a core problem for molecular evolutionary biologists. One of the longest-standing controversies concerns the causes of genome base composition, notably the variation in the sum of G and C content (GC) between 17% and 75% in bacteria. Sueoka argued very early that GC content variation is driven by mutational biases and, as this bi...

The objective of theoretical, computational and experimental studies outlined in this lecture note was to evaluate the design principles and propulsion performance of prospective air-breathing engines operating on pulse detonations of realistic hydrocarbon fuels with a realistic technique of detonation initiation via deflagration-to-detonation transition (DDT). 1.0 INTRODUCTION Activities in th...

This paper provides details on the results described in Priness and Ben-Gal (2006). The paper presents the results of the robustness comparison of the Mutual Information (MI) measure to the Euclidean distance and to the Pearson correlation coefficient. In addition, it shortly outlines the underlying concepts and parameters of four clustering algorithms that were evaluated in Section 4 in Prines...