Academic Articles & Research Papers

Efficacy, safety, and quality of life 4 years after valoctocogene roxaparvovec gene transfer for severe hemophilia A in the phase 3 GENEr8-1 trial

Background: Valoctocogene roxaparvovec, an adeno-associated virus-mediated gene therapy for severe hemophilia A, enables endogenous factor (F)VIII expression and provides bleed protection. Objectives: Determine valoctocogene roxaparvovec du...

In-Fiber Graphene-hBN Polarizer With Enhanced Performance and Bandwidth

Graphene and hBN as two-dimensional materials with excellent optical properties can be combined with other materials. In this paper, graphene and hBN is sequentially deposited on the surface of the silicon-core fiber to serve as transverse ...

Assessment of hazard recognition performance of thermal power plant workers: A case study of a combined cycle power plant

Hazard recognition is a vital skill every thermal power plant worker needs to possess to enhance workplace accident prevention. Facilities and materials used in thermal power plants expose the workers to significant hazards. While some prio...

Role of Reference Frames for a Safe Human–Robot Interaction

Safety plays a key role in human–robot interactions in collaborative robot (cobot) applications. This paper provides a general procedure to guarantee safe workstations allowing human operations, robot contributions, the dynamical environmen...

Novel strategies to control the biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the food industry

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative human pathogenic bacterium that has the ability to form multicellular biofilm (BF) communities. Due to the presence of extracellular polymeric substances, BF protects bacteria from unfavorable envir...

The Anti-Inflammatory Effect of Low Molecular Weight Fucoidan from <i>Sargassum siliquastrum</i> in Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated RAW 264.7 Macrophages via Inhibiting NF-κB/MAPK Signaling Pathways

Brown seaweed is a rich source of fucoidan, which exhibits a variety of biological activities. The present study discloses the protective effect of low molecular weight fucoidan (FSSQ) isolated from an edible brown alga, Sargassum siliquast...

Research of Multi-Rotor UAVs Detailed Autonomous Inspection Technology of Transmission Lines Based on Route Planning

With the rapid development of the economy, the scale of transmission networks has been expanding, bring higher demands and challenges on transmission line operation and maintenance. In this paper, the multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicles (U...

Nuclear engineering workforce in the United States

Nuclear engineers commonly work in the disciplines of NE, nuclear security, and nuclear criticality safety, as defined later.NE has significant overlap with health physics and medical physics (described in Chapters 2 and 3, respectively) an...

Nuclear Engineering in a Package

A FULLY EQUIPPED ATOMIC LABORATORY with instructions and experiments make up Nuclear-Chicago's new "packaged" nuclear engineering program for coDeges. First reactor from its production line will be installed at Northwestern University, Evan...

Safety in Nuclear Engineering

Nuclear Engineering for an Uncertain Future

"Nuclear Engineering for an Uncertain Future." Nuclear Technology, 62(1), p. 124 Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn M. ChristensonJohn M. Christenson has been a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineeri...

Introducing the Walkability Index, an Index That Measures the Walkability of Public Spaces

In recent years an increasing number of cities and transport planning documents (such as Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan) aim to reduce car traffic and promote active modes of transport – walking and cycling. The development of active modes...

LBT-YOLO: A Lightweight Road Targeting Algorithm Based on Task Aligned Dynamic Detection Heads

Autonomous driving technology plays a key role in addressing traffic safety issues and relieving traffic congestion by virtue of its capabilities of enabling accurate environmental perception and real-time response. Aiming at the problem of...

Nuclear Engineering Fundamentals

NUCLEAR ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS is the most modern, up-to-date, and reader friendly nuclear engineering textbook on the market today. It provides a thoroughly modern alternative to classical nuclear engineering textbooks that have not been...

Nuclear Engineering

Key attributes and activities of nuclear engineering are described in this article, with a focus placed on basic concepts and mathematical formulations to represent the steady state and transient behavior of nuclear fission reactors. Mechan...

Basic Nuclear Engineering

"Basic Nuclear Engineering." Nuclear Technology, 38(3), pp. 445–446 Additional informationNotes on contributorsBarry D. GanapolBarry D. Ganapol (BS, mechanical engineering, University of California at Berkeley; MS, nuclear engineering, Colu...

Nuclear Engineering Handbook

Section I Introduction: Nuclear Power Reactors * Historical Development of Nuclear Power Kenneth D. Kok * Pressurized Water Reactors Richard Schreiber * Boiling Water Reactors Kevin Theriault * Heavy Water Reactors Alistar I. Miller, John L...

Nuclear Engineering and Design

Small high temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTRs) have the advantages of transportability, modular construction and flexible site selection. This paper presents the neutronic feasibility design of a 20MWth U-Battery, which is a long-life bl...

Introduction to Nuclear Engineering

(Most chapters end with References and Problems). 1. Nuclear Engineering. 2. Atomic and Nuclear Physics. Fundamental Particles. Atomic and Nuclear Structure. Atomic and Molecular Weight. Atomic and Nuclear Radii. Mass and Energy. Particle W...

Phase 2a/b randomised placebo-controlled dose-escalation trial of triheptanoin for ataxia-telangiectasia: treating mitochondrial dysfunction with anaplerosisResearch in context

Summary: Background: Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) is a rare multisystem disease characterised by neurodegenerative cerebellar ataxia, lung disease, immune deficiency, high cancer risk, and mitochondrial dysfunction. A-T cells demonstrate de...