To date, some types of Optically Reconfigurable Gate Arrays (ORGAs) have been developed to realize capabilities of rapid reconfiguration with numerous reconfiguration contexts. However, the layout style requires a shield against the reconfiguration light irradiation to guard transistors that constitute the gate array. This paper presents a shield effect for a circuit that is implemented on a ga...

The cancer of oral cavity is related to lesions of mucous membrane of tongue and gum that can be treated with radiation therapy. A lateral photon field can be used to treat this kind of tumor, which has a side-effect on normal tissue in the opposite side of the oral cavity. In this study the dosimetric effect of the various shields in oral cavity is evaluated. In this study, a special phantom s...

The activity of cytochrome P450 enzymes depends on the enzyme NADPH P450 oxidoreductase (POR). The aim of this study was to investigate the activity of the equine CYP3A94 using a system that allows to regulate the POR protein levels in mammalian cells. CYP3A94 and the equine POR were heterologously expressed in V79 cells. In the system used, the POR protein regulation is based on a destabilizin...

Recent (<5 Ma) Hawaiian volcanoes define two sub-parallel spatial trends, Loa and Kea. Despite the short distance ( 30 km) between adjacent volcanoes on these trends, most of the Loa-trend shield lavas are geochemically distinct from most of the Kea-trend shield lavas. These geochemical differences arise from small amounts of the LOA component in the source of Loa-trend shield lavas. This compo...

Actual endotoxin levels in each batch are usually measured at < 0.13 EU/ml. Unlike manufacturers of other density gradient media, Axis-Shield do not have to offer special, more expensive, low endotoxin-containing products; all Axis-Shield Density Gradient Media have always been, and continue to be, produced to the same high rigorous standards. For every batch produced, a Certificate of Analysis...

Most of internal combustion engines have one or two heat shields that have been installed on the exhaust manifold to avoid the heat transfer to upper parts of the engine such as the valve cover. In some engines, this part fails due to the fracture and causes engine noise and other failures in the engine. In this paper, the failure of a heat shield due to vibrational loads of the engine has been...

In this paper we analyze the effectiveness of dynamic artificial diversity, i.e., artificial diversity in which the subject of the diversity is re-randomized periodically. We refer to a mechanism that implements dynamic diversity as a Metamorphic Shield since this mechanism applies metamorphosis to the system’s attack surface to try to shield the system from certain attacks. Contrary to intuiti...

The cyclotron at our hospital has a self-shield of boron-containing water. The amount of induced radioactivity in the boron-containing water shield of a compact medical cyclotron has not yet been reported. In this study, we measured the photon and neutron dose rates outside the self-shield during cyclotron operation. We estimated the induced radioactivities of the boron-containing water used fo...