Fast Human Missions to Mars Using Direct Fusion Drive with a Nuclear Thermal Stage

In the present study, the fabrication of an Al-based metal matrix composite material obtained directly from the melting of the aluminium used beverage cans in a modified rheocasting process is presented. The analysed operational condition is the shear rate applied to the bath and its influence on the properties of the obtained samples. Additionally, samples were heat treated at two different times. The characterization of the phases obtained in Al-based MMC was made by means of metallography, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy and electron microprobe with wavelength dispersion spectroscopy. The results show that some constituents were formed during the fabrication process of the MMC, mainly Al6(Fe, Mn), which are partially transformed during the heat treatment. Additionally, samples were evaluated using dynamic mechanical analysis, and the results suggest that the obtained MMC could have very good mechanical properties, similar or superior to the aluminium alloys commonly used for structural applications such as 6XXX family.

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Assessment and Optimization of Autophagy Monitoring Methods in Arabidopsis Roots Indicate Direct Fusion of Autophagosomes with Vacuoles

Plant and Cell Physiology ◽

10.1093/pcp/pcu041 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 55 (4) ◽

pp. 715-726 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Ekaterina A. Merkulova ◽

Anne Guiboileau ◽

Loreto Naya ◽

Céline Masclaux-Daubresse ◽

Kohki Yoshimoto

Keyword(s):

Monitoring Methods ◽

Direct Fusion

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Space Nuclear Power Systems - Direct Fusion Drive

2018 International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference ◽

10.2514/6.2018-4974 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Paluszek ◽

Stephanie J. Thomas ◽

Samuel A. Cohen ◽

Eric Hinterman ◽

Yukino Nagai ◽

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Keyword(s):

Power Systems ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Space Nuclear Power ◽

Direct Fusion

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ER/Golgi Intermediates Acquire Golgi Enzymes by Brefeldin a–Sensitive Retrograde Transport in Vitro

The Journal of Cell Biology ◽

10.1083/jcb.147.7.1457 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 147 (7) ◽

pp. 1457-1472 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Chung-Chih Lin ◽

Harold D. Love ◽

Jennifer N. Gushue ◽

John J.M. Bergeron ◽

Joachim Ostermann

Keyword(s):

Secretory Pathway ◽

Mutant Cell ◽

Brefeldin A ◽

Retrograde Transport ◽

Secretory Proteins ◽

Intermediate Step ◽

Golgi Stack ◽

Transport Vesicles ◽

Direct Fusion

Secretory proteins exit the ER in transport vesicles that fuse to form vesicular tubular clusters (VTCs) which move along microtubule tracks to the Golgi apparatus. Using the well-characterized in vitro approach to study the properties of Golgi membranes, we determined whether the Golgi enzyme NAGT I is transported to ER/Golgi intermediates. Secretory cargo was arrested at distinct steps of the secretory pathway of a glycosylation mutant cell line, and in vitro complementation of the glycosylation defect was determined. Complementation yield increased after ER exit of secretory cargo and was optimal when transport was blocked at an ER/Golgi intermediate step. The rapid drop of the complementation yield as secretory cargo progresses into the stack suggests that Golgi enzymes are preferentially targeted to ER/Golgi intermediates and not to membranes of the Golgi stack. Two mechanisms for in vitro complementation could be distinguished due to their different sensitivities to brefeldin A (BFA). Transport occurred either by direct fusion of preexisting transport intermediates with ER/Golgi intermediates, or it occurred as a BFA-sensitive and most likely COP I–mediated step. Direct fusion of ER/Golgi intermediates with cisternal membranes of the Golgi stack was not observed under these conditions.

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Two-Fold C−H/C−H Cross-Coupling Using RhCl3·3H2O as the Catalyst: Direct Fusion of N-(Hetero)arylimidazolium Salts and (Hetero)arenes

Journal of the American Chemical Society ◽

10.1021/jacs.8b07485 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 140 (39) ◽

pp. 12566-12573 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Zhijie She ◽

Yi Wang ◽

Deping Wang ◽

Yinsong Zhao ◽

Tianbao Wang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cross Coupling ◽

Direct Fusion

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Collaborative Analysis on the Marked Ages of Rice Wines by Electronic Tongue and Nose based on Different Feature Data Sets

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s20041065 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 1065 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Huihui Zhang ◽

Wenqing Shao ◽

Shanshan Qiu ◽

Jun Wang ◽

Zhenbo Wei

Keyword(s):

Electronic Tongue ◽

Alcoholic Beverages ◽

Support Vector ◽

Data Sets ◽

Good Prediction ◽

Least Squares Regression ◽

Data Set ◽

Weighted Fusion ◽

Fusion Data ◽

Direct Fusion

Aroma and taste are the most important attributes of alcoholic beverages. In the study, the self-developed electronic tongue (e-tongue) and electronic nose (e-nose) were used for evaluating the marked ages of rice wines. Six types of feature data sets (e-tongue data set, e-nose data set, direct-fusion data set, weighted-fusion data set, optimized direct-fusion data set, and optimized weighted-fusion data set) were used for identifying rice wines with different wine ages. Pearson coefficient analysis and variance inflation factor (VIF) analysis were used to optimize the fusion matrixes by removing the multicollinear information. Two types of discrimination methods (principal component analysis (PCA) and locality preserving projections (LPP)) were used for classifying rice wines, and LPP performed better than PCA in the discrimination work. The best result was obtained by LPP based on the weighted-fusion data set, and all the samples could be classified clearly in the LPP plot. Therefore, the weighted-fusion data were used as independent variables of partial least squares regression, extreme learning machine, and support vector machines (LIBSVM) for evaluating wine ages, respectively. All the methods performed well with good prediction results, and LIBSVM presented the best correlation coefficient (R2 ≥ 0.9998).

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