One of the yet unresolved engineering problems is forecasting the creep lives of weldment in a pragmatic way with sufficient accuracy. There are number of obstacles to circumvent including: complex material behavior, lack of accurate knowledge about the creep material behavior specially about the heat affected zones (HAZ),accurate and multi-axial creep damage models, etc. In general, creep life...

Most proteins show changes in level across growth conditions. Many of these changes seem to be coordinated with the specific growth rate rather than the growth environment or the protein function. Although cellular growth rates, gene expression levels and gene regulation have been at the center of biological research for decades, there are only a few models giving a base line prediction of the ...

Plasma IgA level of Ehrlich ascites tumor bearing mice showed correlation with progress of tumor growth. In PAGE analysis total plasma IgA separated into 3 major bands corresponding to mol. wt. > or = 669,000 daltons, identical to 443,000 daltons and between 443,000 and 150,000 daltons. All the three bands increased gradually with progress of tumor growth upto day 14 and then declined on day 16...

Grazing by microzooplankton on phytoplankton in Manukau Harbour was measured by size-fractionated dilution experiments at monthly intervals from October 1994 to October 1995. Grazing rates were always highest on the < 5 urn size fraction, the smallest size fraction measured. These rates ranged from 0.3 to 1.3 d" and were highest in November and March; values did not appear to vary with grazer a...

Five experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary spray-dried porcine plasma (SDPP) and spray-dried bovine plasma (SDBP) and their various molecular weight fractions on performance of pigs weaned at approximately 14 or 21 d of age. In addition, the efficacy of various levels of the immunoglobulin G (IgG)-rich fraction of SDPP and SDBP were evaluated. Experiment 1 evaluated the ...

Most proteins show changes in level across growth conditions. Many of these changes seem to be coordinated with the growth rate rather than the specific environment or the protein function. Although cellular growth rates, gene expression levels and gene regulation have been at the center of biological research for decades, there are only a few models using the value of the growth rate to partia...

One hr of exposure to bleomycin (100 jug/ml) during the plateau phase caused a 10-fold greater decrease in the survival fraction of Chinese hamster ovary cells than was caused by bleomycin treatment during the exponential growth period. One hr of exposure to l,3-bis(2-chloroethyl)-l-nitrosourea (25 Mg/ml) had no effect on the survival fraction of cells treated in the exponential growth period; ...

An interesting clinical option for optimizing healing tissue is the use of platelet concentrate. Platelets contain high quantities of growth factors, among these TGF-β1 and VEGF, which are known to be implicated in tissue regeneration. CGF is produced by processing blood samples with a special centrifuge device; three layers are formed: top acellular plasma (PPP), middle CGF and bottom red bloo...

it is now well established that the type la of serine/threonine protein phosphatases (pp1α) may be implicated in malignant phenotype. although the pp1α mrna level increased in livers at preneo-plastic stages of hepatocarinogenesis and all of examined rat ascites hepatomas, unexpectedly, dra-matically decreased in some of primary hepatomas. in order to elucidate the low level of pp1α mrna in som...