As a part of the H2020 EU Project called “TeaM Cables” - which has, among its aims, modelling reliability nuclear power plant cables goal this paper is to develop model for prediction residual low voltage plants subjected gamma radiation stress. The estimates probability that such withstand random stress overshoots in-service, can occur, e.g., in case accidents.

Experimentally investigated patterns of changes in technological residual stresses under the influence variable pressure surface layer became 30XNS2A. A mathematical model relaxation compressive created by plastic deformation techniques with symmetrical cyclical bending samples has been proposed. An empirical expression is proposed for assessing final value as a result cyclic loading, depending...

White WE, Hooper SL. Contamination of current-clamp measurement of neuron capacitance by voltage-dependent phenomena. J Neurophysiol 110: 257–268, 2013. First published April 10, 2013; doi:10.1152/jn.00993.2012.—Measuring neuron capacitance is important for morphological description, conductance characterization, and neuron modeling. One method to estimate capacitance is to inject current pulse...

BACKGROUND Biphasic waveforms have been reported to be more efficacious than monophasic waveforms for external defibrillation. This study examined the optimal phase-1 tilts and phase-2 leading-edge voltages with small capacitors (60 and 20 microF) for external defibrillation. We also assessed the ability of the "charge-burping" model to predict the optimal waveforms. METHODS AND RESULTS Two g...

Airport ground lighting (AGL) systems provide visual reference to aircrafts during airport operations. In AGL systems, constant current regulators feed a beacon circuit supplied through isolation transformers. Component modeling is necessary to simulate AGL systems, and thus characterize and predict their behavior. This paper presents an isolation transformer model including transformer core sa...

When attached outside the voltage-sensing S4 segment of the Shaker potassium channel, the fluorescent probe tetramethylrhodamine (TMRM) undergoes voltage-dependent fluorescence changes (DeltaF) due to differential interaction with a pH-titratable external protein-lined vestibule (Cha, A., and F. Bezanilla. 1998. J. Gen. Physiol. 112:391-408.). We attached TMRM at the same sites [corresponding t...

Cannabinoid (CB(1)) receptor activation produced differential effects on voltage-gated outward potassium currents in whole-cell recordings from cultured (7-15 days) rat hippocampal neurons. Voltage-dependent potassium currents A (I(A)) and D (I(D)) were isolated from a composite tetraethylammonium-insensitive current (I(comp)) by blockade with either 4-aminopyridine (500 microM) or dendrotoxin ...