Zearalenone (ZEN) is a non-steroidal estrogenic mycotoxin produced by several species of Fusarium that are found in cereals and agricultural products. ZEN has been implicated in mycotoxicosis in farm animals and in humans. The toxic effects of ZEN are well known, but the ability of an alkaline Comet assay to assess ZEN-induced oxidative DNA damage in Chang liver cells has not been established. ...

This paper describes the investigation of a DC surface corona discharge established on a rounded edge of a dielectric material. The ionic wind induced by the discharge was measured with the Particle Image Velocimetry system. A physical induced flow model is proposed to interpret the shape of the velocity field. Experiments on a flat plate and a NACA 0015 were performed in a subsonic wind tunnel...

About 40 years ago, in a gesture of civic enlightenment, the United States Congress passed legislation that converted the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA; in existence since 1915) to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). The Space Act, no doubt in partial response to the launching of the first near-Earth satellite, Sputnik, by the Soviet Union, established NASA...

Phospholemman (PLM) regulates cardiac Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger (NCX1) and Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase in cardiac myocytes. PLM, when phosphorylated at Ser(68), disinhibits Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase but inhibits NCX1. PLM regulates cardiac contractility by modulating Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase and/or NCX1. In this study, we first demonstrated that adult mouse cardiac myocytes cultured for 48 h had normal surface membrane ar...

Iosif Taposu has formulated a mathematical model and generated family of airfoils whose geometry resembles the dolphin shape. These are characterized by sharp leading edge experiments have proven that they can achieve better aerodynamic characteristics at very high angles attack than certain classical airfoils, with nose inclined downwards. On other hand, not been applied to any commercial gene...