Although sodium-cooled fast reactors (SFRs) can have inherently enhanced safety features, there is a concern regarding unexpected events arising from sodium-water reaction (SWR) in Rankine cycle steam generator. Innovative concepts of integrated generators (ISGs), including an intermediate heat exchanger, been suggested for eliminating SWR by employing fluid between liquid sodium and steam/wate...

Aluminium matrix composites (AMCs) are broadly used to change the monolithic materials in aviation, automotive, and defense industries owing their superior characteristics such as specific strength with light weight, greater hardness, good wear resistance, better thermal properties. This novel work was aimed at estimating rate (SWR) of zirconium dioxide- (ZrO2-) filled AA8011 (Al-Fe-Si alloy) c...

*Correspondence to: Craig L Peterson; Email: [email protected] Submitted: 06/03/2013; Accepted: 06/03/2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/cc.25704 Comment on: Watanabe S, et al. Science 2013; 340:195-9; PMID:23580526; http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1229758 Organization of eukaryotic genomes into compact, nucleoprotein fibers is key for stuffing a lot of DNA into a tiny nucleus, but thes...

Comparisons were made of the prominent nuclear nonhis tone proteins in the colonic epithelia of two mouse strains which differ markedly in their susceptibilities to tumor induction by 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH). After 20 injections of DMH at weekly intervals, colorectal tumors occurred in 93% of SWR/ J mice, whereas none occurred in AKR/J mice. Nonhistone nuclear proteins were extracted from n...

Preference and intake of sucrose varies across inbred and outbred strains of mice. Pharmacological analyses revealed that the greatest sensitivity to naltrexone-induced inhibition of sucrose (10%) intake was observed in C57BL10/J and C57BL/6J strains, whereas 129P3/J, SWR/J and SJL/J strains displayed far less sensitivity to naltrexone-induced inhibition of sucrose intake. Given that dopamine D...

The strain distribution for macronutrient diet selection was described in 13 mouse strains (AKR/J, NZB/B1NJ, C57BL/6J, C57BL/6ByJ, DBA/2J, SPRET/Ei, CD-1, SJL/J, SWR/J, 129/J, BALB/cByJ, CAST/Ei, and A/J) with the use of a self-selection protocol in which separate carbohydrate, fat, and protein diets were simultaneously available for 26-30 days. Relative to carbohydrate, nine strains consumed s...

The design and implementation of a new or improved irrigation or drainage system should be preceded by a study of the soil water regime (SWR) to define the need for such a system and to optimize its design. This requires estimates of appropriate parameters characterizing the long-term (multiyear) dynamics of the SWR and its relation to biomass production. Parameters that could be used for this ...

During the study of autoimmune models we found that (SWR x SJL)F1 mice (both parental strains with the V beta a phenotype) spontaneously produced immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies directed against Sm/U1 small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs). In some of these females, the presence of these autoantibodies was found as early as 10 wk of age. Their frequency increased with age i.e., 70% at 40 w...

BACKGROUND Arboviral diseases are major global public health threats. Yet, our understanding of infection risk factors is, with a few exceptions, considerably limited. A crucial shortcoming is the widespread use of analytical methods generally not suited for observational data--particularly null hypothesis-testing (NHT) and step-wise regression (SWR). Using Mayaro virus (MAYV) as a case study, ...