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Chemical composition of precipitation in a forest area of Chongqing, Southwest China
Experiments were carried.out in Chongging-a city seriously damaged by acid precipitation in southwest China — to explore chemical compositions of open bulk precipitation, throughfall and stemflow in a Masson p...
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Decomposition and reconstitution principle for complex surfaces and its applications
Though there are already a variety of models for complex surfaces, they are not so convenient as needed in practice. A hierarchical model and the principle of decomposition and reconstitution for complex surfa...
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Cloning and characterization of a novel gene which encodes a protein interacting with the mitosis-associated kinase-like protein NTKL
NTKL is an evolutionarily conserved kinase-like protein. The cell-cycle-dependent centrosomal localization of NTKL suggested that it was involved in centrosome-related cellular function. The mouse NTKL protein...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Dynamic Behavior Analysis of Discrete Neural Networks with Delay
The stability of recurrent neural networks is known to be bases of successful applications of the networks. Discrete Hopfield neural networks with delay are extension of discrete Hopfield neural networks witho...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Stability Conditions for Discrete Neural Networks in Partial Simultaneous Updating Mode
The stability analysis of discrete Hopfield neural networks not only has an important theoretical significance, but also can be widely used in the associative memory, combinatorial optimization, etc. The dynam...
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Fabrication of high performance 3D SiO2/Si3N4 composite via perhydropolysilazane infiltration and pyrolysis
Perhydropolysilazane, a low viscosity preceramic polymer with good wettability and high char yield, was used to fabricate three-dimensional silica fiber reinforced silicon nitride matrix composites through the...
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Involvement of NADPH oxidase in sulfur dioxide-induced oxidative stress in plant cells
Bisulfite, a major form of SO2 in aqueous phase of apoplast, may reduce photosynthesis rate and thereby crop yield through inducing reactive oxygen species (ROS). In this study, ROS production was directly detect...
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Rapid and non-invasive detection of plants senescence using a delayed fluorescence technique
Senescence is a phase of leaf ontogeny marked by declining photosynthetic activity that is paralleled by a decline in chloroplast function. The photosystem II in a plant is considered to be the primary site wh...
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Preparation of nanosized silicon carbide powders by chemical vapor deposition at low temperatures
Liquid carbosilane was synthesized and analyzed by infrared (IR) and H-NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectroscopy. Silicon carbide (SiC) powders were prepared by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at 850°C and...
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Rapid determination of seed vigor based on the level of superoxide generation during early imbibition
It has been reported that a large amount of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is produced during seed imbibition and this ROS is related to seed vigor. To make this physiological mechanism clear, we have used 2-me...
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Preparation of Silicon Carbide Coatings from Liquid Carbosilanes by Chemical Vapor Deposition
Liquid carbosilanes which were synthesized from polydimethylsilane (PDMS) were analyzed by infrared spectra (IR) and H-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Silicon carbide coatings were prepared by chemical vapor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Realization of CNC System on Middle-Convex and Varying Oval Piston Machining
To machine non-circular middle-convex and varying oval (NMVO) pistons with computer numerical control (CNC) turning system, the cutter must reciprocate in X-axis with high-speed and high-precision to tracking ...
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Ablation and radar-wave transmission performances of the nitride ceramic matrix composites
The 2.5 dimensional silica fiber reinforced nitride matrix composites (2.5D SiO2f/Si3N4-BN) were prepared through the preceramic polymer impregnation pyrolysis (PIP) method. The ablation and radar-wave transparen...
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Metabolic flux and robustness analysis of glycerol metabolism in Klebsiella pneumoniae
The knowledge of the mechanism of flux distribution will benefit understanding cell physiology and regulation of metabolism. In this study, the measured fluxes obtained under steady-state conditions were used ...
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Implication of reactive oxygen species and mitochondrial dysfunction in the early stages of plant programmed cell death induced by ultraviolet-C overexposure
Recent studies have suggested that ultraviolet-C (UV-C) overexposure induces programmed cell death (PCD) in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh, and this process includes participation of caspase-like proteases, DNA ...
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Rapid determination of the damage to photosynthesis caused by salt and osmotic stresses using delayed fluorescence of chloroplasts
Chloroplasts are one of the most susceptible systems to salt and osmotic stresses. Based on quantitative measurements of delayed fluorescence (DF) of the chloroplasts, we have investigated the damage to photos...
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Corporations as Political Actors – A Report on the First Swiss Master Class in Corporate Social Responsibility
This paper presents a report on the first Swiss Master Class in Corporate Social Responsibility, which was held between the 8th and 9th December 2006 at HEC Lausanne in Switzerland. The first section of the re...
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A new Trichoplusia ni cell line for membrane protein expression using a baculovirus expression vector system
A new cell line, MSU-TnT4 (TnT4), was established from Trichoplusia ni embryos for use with baculovirus expression vectors and evaluated for its potential for membrane protein production. To evaluate membrane pro...
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Design and implementation of an open CNC core at the shop floor level
In this paper, a new CNC core design method, the function-separated design (FSD) method, is proposed to increase the modularity and reconfigurability of CNC systems, simplify the CNC development process, as we...
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Open Platform Development for STEP-compliant CNC
To implement STEP-Compliant CNC, the implementing platform is very important. How to design open, STEP-Compliant CNC software and hardware platform becomes a hot research topic. A lot of research was focused o...
