In practical engineering, uncertain loads usually cause the variations of structure stiffness to affect the security of the structure.To enhance the reliability and find the optimum structure in engineering, a topology optimization method is developed for the optimization of structural stiffness in this paper.The first-order saddle point approximat
This essay reflects on three figures that can be used to make sense of the changing nature of public participation in the Beast Machines life sciences today: outlaws, hackers and Victorian gentlemen.Occasioned by a symposium held at UCLA (Outlaw Biology: Public Participation in the Age of Big Bio), the essay introduces several different modes of pa
Glucosinolates with Brassica genus as secondary metabolites have a lot of functions and effects.Glucosinolates form less than 2% of the overall sulphur content at the beginning of vegetation in different parts of the plants and during growth their content is decreasing and forms less than 0.1%.This low representation doubts their storage function.W
Abstract The high consumption of sugars is linked to the intermediate hyperglycemia and impaired glucose tolerance associated with obesity, inducing the prediabetes.However, the consequences of excessive invert sugar intake on glucose metabolism and genomic stability were poorly studied.The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of invert su
Abstract Background Parental malnutrition, particularly a low-protein diet (LPD), causes oligonephropathy at birth and predisposes offspring to hypertension and chronic kidney disease later in life.The onset of adult kidney disease varies based on genetics and environmental factors, often with subclinical alterations in kidney function being overlo