The purpose of this paper is to develop AA5052 aluminum alloy solid disc from machining wastes via friction stir consolidation (FSC) process & optimize its parameters: die rotational speed, pre-compact aspect ratio and processing time. At first, the required dedicated tooling designed built. Then, discs are fabricated chips using FSC process. Taguchi L9 orthogonal array used analyze Experim...

background human telomerase reverse transcriptase (htert) has become an ideal target for development of anticancer therapy. small interfering rnas (sirnas) are very powerful reagents for gene silencing and show promise for cancer gene therapy. however, only a small number of sirnas have been demonstrated to be effective. for gene therapy targeting htert, it is essential to develop a robust syst...

T. Hofmann, ∗ K.O. Kruchinin, A. Bosco, S.M. Gibson, F. Roncarolo, G. Boorman, U. Raich, E. Bravin, J.K. Pozimski, A. Letchford, and C. Gabor Beam Instrumentation Group, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland John Adams Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, TW20 0EX, United Kingdom Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ,United Kingdom STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Oxf...

The goals of this research were to estimate the phenotypic relationship among various breat meat quality traits, blood parameters and tonic immobility from a broiler and to describe the relation among these variables. Broiler chicks were devided into different groups: (1) colour clothing groups represented four different colours as red, blue, green, and gray and (2) the chicks that were subject...

Methods Ten obese men participated in cross-over 4-week moderate(MIIT) and high(HIIT) intensity interval cycling. MIIT consisted of 5-min stages at ±20% of mechanical work at 45 %VO2peak, and HIIT consisted of 30-sec work at 90 %VO2peak and 30-sec rests for 30-45 min. The assessments included a constant-load test consisted of 5-min rest, 45-min cycling at 45 %VO2peak followed by 60-min recovery...

PURPOSE To propose a method for reducing the radiation dose in cerebral CT perfusion studies by using a variable scan schedule. MATERIALS AND METHODS Original images were obtained with a multi detector-row CT (MDCT) scanner using the following CT perfusion protocol: continuous scans of 1 sec/rotation x 60 sec, four 5-mm-thick contiguous slices. The original images were thinned-out using combi...

BACKGROUND Predischarge defibrillation threshold testing is often performed a few days after ICD implantation in order to validate defibrillation thresholds obtained at the time of implant. Ventricular fibrillation is induced with such testing and causes an increase in serum Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) levels. BNP is an indicator for cardiac stress. We wanted to examine the feasibility to a...

the aim of this research was to examine the effect of a training interventionprogram on fall-related motor performance in the male elderly with no regularphysical activities. for this purpose, 39 out of 130 participants in screen test wereselected and assigned to training group (n=20) and control group (n=19). subjectsaged between 60 and 70 in experimental were 73.68% and in the control group43...