The authors thank SL Smith for technical assistance, NM Magoski for evaluation of previous drafts of the manuscript, and the two anonymous reviewers for constructive criticism of the work. KEG held a RS McLaughlin Fellowship and NSM holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator Award. Supported by a CIHR operating grant to NSM. Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (April 2...

Snail-like transcription factors affect stem cell function through mechanisms that are incompletely understood. In the Caenorhabditis elegans neurosecretory motor neuron (NSM) neuroblast lineage, CES-1 Snail coordinates cell cycle progression and cell polarity to ensure the asymmetric division of the NSM neuroblast and the generation of two daughter cells of different sizes and fates. We have p...

In this paper, we compare the results of the modeling of a protoplanetary disk chemical evolution obtained with the UMIST95 and “New Standard Model” (NSM) chemical databases. Assuming the same initial conditions, it is found that the substitution of one chemical network by another causes almost no difference for the disk ionization degree. In contrast, the NSM and UMIST95 abundances of CO can d...

Fiber-reinforced polymeric composites are used widely due to their unique properties of light weight, stiffness and high strength weight ratio. During processing and servicing, the composite materials undergoes delamination, and petalling. Computational model was constructed for finite element modeling to reflect material purpose under impact load and relevant material properties were taken. In...

This article presents results of an investigation that focuses on assessing bondline strength carbon/epoxy fiber reinforced polymeric (CFRP) precured strips embedded in concrete for near-surface-mounting (NSM) strengthening applications. In this study, experimental evaluation and nonlinear numerical analysis CFRP/concrete interfacial bond behavior are investigated. 15 pull-out tests were perfor...

An Integral Nested Sliding Mode Control (INSMC) is proposed for n-link robotic manipulators tracking problem by employing Integral Sliding Mode (ISM) and Nested Sliding Mode (NSM) concepts. This controller has the robustness of NSM against matched and no matched perturbations, and the capability of ISM to reduce the sliding functions gains. Application to a two-link planar robot manipulator is ...

BACKGROUND Previously, we investigated the role of the Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) virulence genes NSs and NSm in mosquitoes and demonstrated that deletion of NSm significantly reduced the infection, dissemination, and transmission rates of RVFV in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The specific aim of this study was to further characterize midgut infection and escape barriers of RVFV in Ae. aegypti ...