Severity-sensitive norm-governed multi-agent planning

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Policy-driven planning in coalitions - A case study

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Exploratory Investigation of the Effects of Boundary-Layer Control on the Pressure-Recovery Characteristics of a Circular Internal-Contraction Inlet with Translating Centerbody at Mach Numbers of 2.00 and 2.35

Exploratory tests of a circular internal-contraction inlet were made at Mach numbers of 2.00 and 2.35 to determine the effect of a cowl-type boundary-layer control located downstream of the inlet throat. The inlet was designed for a Mach number of 2.5. Tests were also made of the inlet modified to correspond to design Mach numbers of 2.35 and 2.25. Surveys near the minimum area section of the inlet without boundary-layer control indicated maximum averaged pressure recoveries between 0.90 and 0.92 at a free-stream Mach number, M(sub infinity), of 2.35 for the inlets. Farther downstream, after partial subsonic diffusion, a maximum pressure recovery of 0.842 was obtained with the inlet at M(sub infinity) = 2.35. The pressure recovery of the inlet was increased by 0.03 at a Mach number of 2.35 and decreased by 0.02 at a Mach number of 2.00 by the application of cowl-type boundary-layer control. Further investigation with the inlet without bleed demonstrated that an increase of angle of attack from 0 deg to 3 deg reduced the pressure recovery 0.04. The effect of Reynolds number was to increase pressure recovery 0.07 (from 0.785 to 0.855) with an increase in Reynolds number (based on inlet diameter) from 0.79 x 10(exp 6) to 3.19 x 10(exp 6)

Zonal rotor study of the subcellular distribution of acyl-CoA synthetases, carnitine acyl transferases and phosphatidate phosphatase in the guinea-pig small intestine.

Homogenates made from the mucosa of the guinea pig small intestine were fractionated in a zonal rotor by rate and isopycnic centrifugation in sucrose gradients. Density perturbation of endoplasmic reticulum vesicles was done by treating homogenate with pyrophosphate and was analysed by isopyenic centrifugation. Subcellular fractions were analysed for the distribution of markers for brush borders. basolateral plasma membrane. Iysosomes. peroxi. somes. mitochondria. nuclei and endoplasmic reliculum. Fractions werc also analysed for the distribution ofpropionyl-. butyryl-. and palmityl. CoA synthetases. for carnitine acetyl and palmityltransferases. and for phosphatidate phosphatase. Comparison of marker and unknown distributions shows that palmityl- CoA synthetase is located on the endoplasmic reticulum. while propionyl- and butyryl-CoA synthetases and carnitine acetyl and pal. mit)'l transferases are exclusively mitochondrial. I'hosphatidate phosphatase has complex subcellular localisation with activity in brush borders. microsomes (possibly not the endoplasmic reticulum component) and possibly Iysosomes

Subcellular localization of monoglyceride acyltransferase, xanthine oxidation, NADP: isocitrate dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase in the mucosa of the guinea-pig small intestine.

1. Rate dependent and isopycnic banding in a zonal rotor were used to analyse the subcellular sites of enzymes in homogenates of guinea-pig small intestinal mucosa. 2, The results demonstrate the following localizations: monoglyceride acyltransferase-microsomal; xanthine oxidase and dehydrogenase-soluble phase, and NADP: isocitrate dehydrogenase-soluble phase and mitochondrial. 3, Alkaline phosphatase is confined to brush borders and is absent from the basolateral plasma membrane. A variable proportion of the activity, up to 40%, is on brush borders which during homogenization break up into particles of reduced density and slow sedimentation rate

Intestinal peroxisomes of goldfish (Carrassius auratus) - examination for hydrolase, dehydrogenase and carnitine acetyltransferase activities.

1. Rate sedimentation and isopycnic centrifugation were used to analyse the subcellular sites of enzymes in homogenates of goldfish intestinal mucosa. 2. The results allowed the following allocations to be made: carnitine acetyl transferase-mitochondrial and peroxisomal, xanthine dehydrogenase and NAD: :x-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase soluble phase; NADP: isocitrate dehydrogenase soluble phase and mitochondrial, and 2-naphthyl laurate hydrolase microsomal and/or brush border. 3. Histochemistry confirmed the use of alkaline phosphatase and I-naphthyl acetate esterase as brush border and microsome markers respectively. 4. Urate oxidase, allantoinase, allantoicase, xanthine oxidase and glycollatejlactate oxidase, activities were undetectable, and I-naphthyl palmilale hydrolase was present only as a contaminant from pancreas

Freight logistics services for rural economies : User needs and future challenges

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Observation-Based Multi-Agent Planning with Communication

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