Where there have been many, must be one. In the beginning and in end, for mess in-between can only a transitory state. Or so Hans Blumenberg characterizes fundamental presupposition of Western metaphysics. Very much line with this logic, International Relations has invested great deal conceptual energy unthinking undoing international as constituent concept. This article critically engages temp...

A large number of molecular mechanisms exist to ensure the continued function of perturbed cells. Here we explore a range of mechanisms of molecular robustness. A theory of robustness is proposed in which mechanisms are classified into those that purge damage, and those that buffer damage. The strategy upon which a system settles, is a function of the cost of purgation, and thereby a function o...

We present the formal verification of synchronizing aspects of the Reliable Computing Platform (RCP), a fault-tolerant computing system for digital flight control applications. The RCP uses NMR-style redundancy to mask faults and internal majority voting to purge the effects of transient faults. The system design has been formally specified and verified using the EHDM verification system. Our f...

D company The FROG-4000TM Portable GC System Weighing less than 5 pounds, the FROG4000TM (shown in Figure 1) is the smallest portable GC system on the market today. The FROGTM uses MEMS components and designer nanomaterials to deliver the same detection capabilities of a traditional bench top GC system but at a fraction of the cost and size. The FROG-4000TM is equipped with a purge-and-trap sys...

The retail market for pork is rapidly diverging into two different segments: commodity pork for our traditional grocery store sales of pork and value-added markets for pork that is consumed out of the home. These two market segments have different requirements for pork quality. The consumer at the grocery store prefers meat that is very lean with a consistent color and little purge. National Po...

The aims of this work were to carry out a comprehensive study of the volatile hydrocarbons of 34 Iberian dry-cured hams and to evaluate the efficiency of these compounds for discriminating hams according to the fattening system: "Montanera" (B) and "Cebo" (C). The samples of hams were obtained by mincing the semimembranosus and semitendinosus muscles from slices of dry-cured ham. The analyses w...

The therapeutic promise of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) has spurred efforts to circumvent genome alteration when reprogramming somatic cells to pluripotency. Approaches based on episomal DNA, Sendai virus, and messenger RNA (mRNA) can generate "footprint-free" iPSCs with efficiencies equaling or surpassing those attained with integrating viral vectors. The mRNA method uniquely affords...

This paper illustrates the application of hybrid modeling and model predictive control techniques to the water purge management in a fuel cell with dead-end anode. The anode water flow dynamics are approximated as a two-mode discrete-time switched affine system that describes the propagation of water inside the gas diffusion layer, the spilling into the channel and consequent filling and pluggi...

Here, we report the design and successful implementation of an ultra-low oxygen sample cell for use on SAXS-WAXS (small-wide angle x-ray scattering) beamline I22 at DIAMOND. The rigorous exclusion is found to require double jacketing with purge gas throughout entire system, pipework, pumps, itself. This particularly includes a “double-window” arrangement location accommodate very tight geometri...