Bombyx mori and Bombyx mandarina are morphologically and physiologically similar. In this study, we compared the nucleotide variations in the complete mitochondrial (mt) genomes between the domesticated silkmoth, B. mori, and its wild ancestors, Chinese B. mandarina (ChBm) and Japanese B. mandarina (JaBm). The sequence divergence and transition mutation ratio between B. mori and ChBm are signif...

K. Abe, 27 Y. Hayato, 27 T. Iida, K. Iyogi, J. Kameda, 27 Y. Koshio, 27 Y. Kozuma, Ll. Marti, M. Miura, 27 S. Moriyama, 27 M. Nakahata, 27 S. Nakayama, 27 Y. Obayashi, 27 H. Sekiya, 27 M. Shiozawa, 27 Y. Suzuki, 27 A. Takeda, 27 Y. Takenaga, K. Ueno, K. Ueshima, S. Yamada, T. Yokozawa, C. Ishihara, H. Kaji, T. Kajita, 27 K. Kaneyuki, 27, ∗ K.P. Lee, T. McLachlan, K. Okumura, Y. Shimizu, N. Tani...

A very effective method for some kind of problems is the Method of Fundamental Solutions (MFS). It is a boundary meshless method which does not need any mesh and in linear problems only nodes (collocation points) on the domain boundaries and a set of source functions (fundamental solutions, i.e. Kelvin functions) in points outside the domain are necessary to satisfy the boundary conditions. Ano...

The fracture behavior of particulate composite materials when subjected to dynamic loading has been a great concern for many industrial applications as these materials are particularly susceptible to impact loading conditions. As a result, many numerical and experimental techniques have been developed to deal with this class of problems. In this work, the fracture behavior of particulate compos...

in albumin-induced apoptosis in proximal tubule cells. J Am Soc Nephrol 18: 1199–1208, 2007 9. Ohse T, Inagi R, Tanaka T, Ota T, Miyata T, Kojima I, Ingelfinger J, Ogawa S, Fujita T, Nangaku M: Albumin induces endoplasmic reticulum stress and apoptosis in renal proximal tubular cells. Kidney Int 70: 1447–1455, 2006 10. Wu X, He Y, Jing Y, Li K, Zhang J: Albumin overload induces apoptosis in ren...

1 Abstract Bio-based materials offer interesting solutions to sustainable and eco-friendly industrial applications in the future. In this study micromechanical modeling and Mori-Tanaka mean field homogenization technique is used for stiffness prediction in short flax fiber reinforced PLA biopolymer. The fiber geometry distribution is considered in the homogenization along with the orientation d...

We use the energy equivalence principle and the Mori-Tanaka method of considering the interaction among inclusions to derive the effective thermo-electro-mechanical properties of a 4-phase composite consisting of an elastic matrix and shape memory alloy, piezoelectric and inert (nonpiezoelectric) inclusions. It is shown that the shapes and the volume fraction of inert (e.g. air) inclusions sign...

The collocation multiquadric radial basis functions are used to analyze static deformations of a simply supported functionally graded plate modeled by a third-order shear deformation theory. The plate material is made of two isotropic constituents with their volume fractions varying only in the thickness direction. The macroscopic response of the plate is taken to be isotropic and the effective...

K. Bays, T. Iida, K. Abe, Y. Hayato, K. Iyogi, J. Kameda, Y. Koshio, L. Marti, M. Miura, S. Moriyama, M. Nakahata, S. Nakayama, Y. Obayashi, H. Sekiya, M. Shiozawa, Y. Suzuki, A. Takeda, Y. Takenaga, K. Ueno, K. Ueshima, S. Yamada, T. Yokozawa, H. Kaji, T. Kajita, K. Kaneyuki, T. McLachlan, K. Okumura, K. P. Lee, K. Martens, M. Vagins, L. Labarga, E. Kearns, M. Litos, J. L. Raaf, J. L. Stone, L...