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Incest: Medical-Legal perspectives
2010
Le Fusioni
2006
Diffusion of point defects in shocked molecular crystals
2005
The dynamic response of a molecular crystal containing defects to shock wave loading is modeled and the resulting diffusion of point defects is simulated. It is shown that diffusion proceeds not only via the stress assisted diffusion, which is point defect diffusion in a stress field, also known as the Gorsky effect, but also through defect diffusion in the field of inertial forces. The method for modeling diffusion of point defects in shocked solids is developed. It is shown that diffusion in the inertial field significantly exceeds the stress diffusion in organic molecular crystals. Interplay between stress-assisted and inertial diffusion leads to the separation of light particles from he…
Assessment of Fatigue Effects Induced by Fast Beam Transients in the IFMIF-DONES Li Target
2020
One of the crucial steps toward the commercial exploitation of fusion energy is the availability of a high-intensity neutron source able to test and qualify structural materials to be used in future fusion power reactors. The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility-DEMO Oriented NEutron Source (IFMIF-DONES) facility, which is currently being designed within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, represents the European effort to develop such a neutron source. It employs a liquid lithium target struck by an accelerated deuteron (D+) beam to produce fusion-like neutrons used to irradiate materials samples. So far, a detailed investigation of the thermomechanical behavior of t…
Interpolation and Gap Filling of Landsat Reflectance Time Series
2018
Products derived from a single multispectral sensor are hampered by a limited spatial, spectral or temporal resolutions. Image fusion in general and downscaling/blending in particular allow to combine different multiresolution datasets. We present here an optimal interpolation approach to generate smoothed and gap-free time series of Landsat reflectance data. We fuse MODIS (moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer) and Landsat data globally using the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. The optimal interpolator exploits GEE ability to ingest large amounts of data (Landsat climatologies) and uses simple linear operations that scale easily in the cloud. The approach shows very good result…
The membrane anchor of microsomal epoxide hydrolase from human, rat, and rabbit displays an unexpected membrane topology.
1997
The microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEH) and cytochrome P450s catalyze the sequential formation of carcinogenic metabolites. According to one algorithm for predicting the membrane topology of proteins, the human, the rabbit, and the rat mEH should adopt a type II topology. The type II topology is also predicted by a recently established neuronal network which is trained to recognize signal peptides with very high accuracy. In contrast to these predictions we find, based on N-glycosylation analysis in a cell-free and in a cellular system, that the membrane anchor of human, rat, and rabbit mEH displays a type I topology. This result is correctly predicted by the positive inside rule in which ne…
The microsomal epoxide hydrolase has a single membrane signal anchor sequence which is dispensable for the catalytic activity of this protein
1994
The microsomal epoxide hydrolase (mEH) catalyses the hydrolysis of reactive epoxides which are formed by the action of cytochromes P-450 from xenobiotics. In addition it has been suggested that mEH might mediate the transport of bile acids. For the mEH it has been shown that it is co-translationally inserted into the endoplasmic reticulum. Here we demonstrate that the N-terminal 20 amino acid residues of this protein serve as its single membrane anchor signal sequence and that the function of this sequence can also be supplied by a cytochrome P-450 (CYP2B1) anchor signal sequence. The evidence supporting this conclusion is as follows: (i) the rat mEH and a CYP2B1-mEH fusion protein, in whic…
Candida albicans TDH3 gene promotes secretion of internal invertase when expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydr…
2003
We have checked the ability of the Candida albicans GAPDH polypeptide, which lacks a conventional N-terminal signal peptide, to reach the cell wall in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by using an intracellular form of the yeast invertase as a reporter protein. A hybrid TDH3-SUC2 gene containing the C. albicans TDH3 promoter sequences and a coding region encoding a fusion protein formed by the C. albicans GAPDH polypeptide, fused at its C-terminus with the yeast internal invertase, was constructed in a centromer derivative plasmid and transformed into a Suc(-) S. cerevisiae strain. Transformants displayed invertase activity measured in intact whole cells, and were able to grow on sucrose as the sole…
Comparison of remote photoplethysmography signals acquired by ultra-low noise camera and conventional camera during physiological tests
2017
In present study, remote photoplethysmography signals acquired by ultra-low noise camera and conventional camera were compared during different skin microcirculation provocation tests. The aim of work was to reveal how much of camera dynamic range and noise contribute to blood perfusion signal quality. Results demonstrate comparable capabilities of both cameras for skin perfusion monitoring.
New trends in culinary tourism - regional (Silesian) fusion cuisine
2020
This article concerns regional cuisine, mainly new ways of its presentation taking into account personal visions the preparation of certain dishes. Today, in culinary tourism there is a growing interest in regional dishes in fusion versions. The author discusses the characteristics of the regional and fusion cuisine, identifies selected Silesian dishes most often modified by chefs, presents the typology of restaurants that offer regional specialities in modern versions. The trend concerning modernized versions of regional specialities is constantly growing, as evidenced by, among others, an increasing number of restaurants specialized in such “food creations”. They are treated as a culinary…