Comet Arend Roland, plate no. 5521

Taken with Curtis Schmidt Telescope, plate no. 5521

Comet Arend Roland, plate no. 5531

Taken with Curtis Schmidt Telescope, plate no. 5531

Mike Wallace and family on home plate, baseball stadium

Inscribed on back "Mike Wallace / [Karin Hatch ?] / Tora Tora Tora Interview / USN Capt Unknown / Pentagon Radio Studio"

Arbitration cases between Pittsburg plate glass company and Federation of glass, ceramic and silica sand workers of America - CIO. 1945-1953.

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Arbitration cases between Federation of Glass, Ceramic and Silica Sand Workers of America-CIO and Mosaic Tile Company, Cambridge Tile Manufacturing Co., Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, Brickwede Brothers Company, Rohm & Haas Company, Franklin Clay Manufacturing Co.

Cover title.

The South American journal and Brazil & River Plate mail.

Founded by W. Hadfield and C. Dunlop and for many years edited by the latter.

The church plate of Carmarthenshire.

Mode of access: Internet.

Variability of fracture toughness in A514/517 plate : executive summary /

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Transient bending of a piezoelectric circular plate

Thin, piezoelectric circular plates are frequently used as active components in transducer and smart materials applications. This paper reports on the exact, explicit solution for the transient motion of a piezoelectric circular plate, built-in or simply supported on the edge and electrically grounded over the entire surface. Expressed by elementary Bessel functions and obtained via exact inverse Laplace transforms, the solution enables the efficient calculation of accurate system parameters. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Expression of SHOX in human fetal and childhood growth plate

Abnormalities in the growth plate may lead to short stature and skeletal deformity including Leri Weil syndrome, which has been shown to result from deletions or mutations in the SHOX gene, a homeobox gene located at the pseudoautosomal region of the X and Y chromosome. We studied the expression of SHOX protein, by immunohistochemistry, in human fetal and childhood growth plates and mRNA by in situ hybridization in childhood normal and Leri Weil growth plate. SHOX protein was found in reserve, proliferative, and hypertrophic zones of fetal growth plate from 12 wk to term and childhood control and Leri Weil growth plates. The pattern of immunostaining in the proliferative zone of childhood growth plate was patchy, with more intense uniform immunostaining in the hypertrophic zone. In situ hybridization studies of childhood growth plate demonstrated SHOX mRNA expression throughout the growth plate. No difference in the pattern of SHOX protein or mRNA expression was seen between the control and Leri Weil growth plate. These findings suggest that SHOX plays a role in chondrocyte function in the growth plate.

A rapid microtitre plate screening method for in vitro assessment of fibrinolysis: a preliminary report

A novel and precise assay that facilitates high-throughput screening of fibrinolytic agents was developed based on the automated assessment of the euglobulin clot lysis time in microtitre plates. Euglobulin fractions from fresh plasma samples were assessed over 28 days to determine the inter-assay and intra-assay precision. The intra-assay (coefficient of variation range, 0.7-2.6%) and inter-assay precision (coefficient of variation range, 6.8-12.1%) was found to be well within limits required by the Food and Drug Administration. On day 1 and day 28, the results of the microtitre plate euglobulin clot lysis time method were compared with tissue plasminogen activator activity, plasminogen activator inhibitor activity and results produced on fibrin plates. All comparisons were found to correlate significantly. The validity of this method for assaying fibrinolytic agents was assessed by comparing dose-response curves for streptokinase produced using fibrin plates and this method. The critical influence of ambient temperature on the inter-assay reproducibility of this method was established by testing samples over a range of temperatures between 20degreesC and 40degreesC. (C) 2004 Lippincott Williams Wilkins.

Finite element analysis of fault bend influence on stick-slip instability along an intra-plate fault

Earthquakes have been recognized as resulting from stick-slip frictional instabilities along the faults between deformable rocks. A three-dimensional finite-element code for modeling the nonlinear frictional contact behaviors between deformable bodies with the node-to-point contact element strategy has been developed and applied here to investigate the fault geometry influence on the nucleation and development process of the stick-slip instability along an intra-plate fault through a typical fault bend model, which has a pre-cut fault that is artificially bent by an angle of 5.6degrees at the fault center. The numerical results demonstrate that the geometry of the fault significantly affects nucleation, termination and restart of the stick-slip instability along the intra-plate fault, and all these instability phenomena can be well simulated using the current finite-element algorithm.