The creep and stress rupture properties of an oxide (Y2O3) dispersion strengthened nickel-base alloy, which also is strengthened by γ′ precipitates, was studied at 760 °C and 1093
°C. At both temperatures the alloy YDNiCrAl exhibits unusually high stress rupture ductility as measured by both elongation
and reduction in area. Failure was transgranular, and different modes of failure were observed including crystallographic
fracture at intermediate temperatures and tearing or necking almost to a chisel point at higher temperatures. While the rupture
ductility was high, the creep strength of the alloy was low relative to conventional γ′ strengthened superalloys in the intermediate
temperature range and to ODS alloys in the higher temperature range. These findings are discussed with respect to the alloy
composition; the strengthening oxide phases, which are inhomogeneously dispersed; the grain morphology, which is coarse and
elongated and exhibits many included grains; and the second phase inclusion particles occurring at grain boundaries and in
the matrix. The creep properties, in particular the high stress dependencies and high creep activation energies measured,
are discussed with respect to the resisting stress model of creep in particle strengthened alloys.
RICHARD M. ARONS, formerly a Graduate Student at Columbia University 相似文献
The urokinase receptor (uPAR) is a cell surface receptor that binds to the serine protease urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) with high affinity. This interaction is beneficial for extravascular fibrin clearance, but it has also been associated with a broad range of pathological conditions including cancer, atherosclerosis, and kidney disease. Here, starting with a small molecule that we previously discovered by virtual screening and cheminformatics analysis, we design and synthesize several derivatives that were tested for binding and inhibition of the uPAR ⋅ uPA interaction. To confirm the binding site and establish a binding mode of the compounds, we carried out biophysical studies using uPAR mutants, among them uPARH47C−N259C, a mutant previously developed to mimic the structure of uPA-bound uPAR. Remarkably, a substantial increase in potency is observed for inhibition of uPARH47C−N259C binding to uPA compared to wild-type uPAR, consistent with our use of the structure of uPAR in its uPA-bound state to design small-molecule uPAR ⋅ uPA antagonists. Combined with the biophysical studies, molecular docking followed by extensive explicit-solvent molecular dynamics simulations and MM-GBSA free energy calculations yielded the most favorable binding pose of the compound. Collectively, these results suggest that potent inhibition of uPAR binding to uPA with small molecules will likely only be achieved by developing small molecules that exhibit high-affinity to solution apo structures of uPAR, rather than uPA-bound structures of the receptor. 相似文献
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The great advance and variety of multimedia applications such as video streaming, TV broadcasting, and video conferencing stimulated research to enhance video encoding, where a video is reduced in size and possibly transformed to numerous formats for portability. This paper is concerned with solving the problem of the huge processing time taken by the serial video encoding approaches by proposing a hybrid-parallel video encoding technique to speed up the process. In this work, the Joint Scalable Video Model (JSVM 9.19.14) is chosen as the basic serial video encoding algorithm for building different parallel video encoding architectures. The proposed technique exploits the triple-step nature of JSVM and intelligently determines the best task organization to achieve speedup and increase the efficiency on a cluster computing platform. Moreover, a dynamic load sharing scheme is proposed to redistribute load among different machines for additional parallelism. The remarkable feature of our approach is that, both the granularity of load partitioning among the cluster machines and all the associated overheads are considered. The experimental results are applied on a compact library of 160 mp4 encoded videos and two other bench mark datasets. The results proves a significant improvement in performance in comparison to the sequential version; which ranges from 64.2% to 95.3%, for a cluster with a number of machines ranging from 2 to 20 respectively.
Fluoride is a key ingredient of many psychiatric drugs like fluoxetine (Prozac®, Fluoxetine®). Pregnant women
frequently use this drug as they suffer from depression and anxiety disorders during this period. Fluoxetine is able to
reach the fetus through the placenta and passes to the newborn through milk. In the present study, female Wistar rats
were treated with 5, 10, and 20 mg/L fluoxetine (containing 94% fluorides) from pregnancy day 10 to day 20. After
delivery, the levels of the enzymatic antioxidants in the brain of their offspring at postnatal day 2 were measured. The
results showed that, in all fluoxetine exposed groups compared with the control group, there was a significant decrease
(P < 0.01) in the glutathione, catalase, glutathione S-transferases and potassium and a non- significant increase (P >
0.05) in the activity of malondialdehyde and creatine kinase. The results suggest that fluoxetine may be a developmental
neurotoxicant due to presence of fluoride hence must be used carefully during pregnancy. 相似文献