Progressive Failure Analysis of Laminates with Embedded Wrinkle Defects Based on an Elastoplastic Damage Model.

Out-of-plane wrinkling has a significant influence on the mechanical performance of composite laminates. Numerical simulations were conducted to investigate the progressive failure behavior of fiber-reinforced composite laminates with out-of-plane wrinkle defects subjected to axial compression. To describe the material degradation, a three-dimensional elastoplastic damage model with four damage modes (i.

Relationship between the status of phospholipase A2 receptor and prognosis of idiopathic membranous nephropathy.

Aim: Serum levels of phospholipase A2 receptor antibody (PLA2R; SAb) and glomerular deposits of PLA2R antigen (GAg) have been detected in patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN). However, the correlation between these immunologic factors and their associations with the status and prognosis of IMN remain uncertain.

Methods: Fifty-one patients with biopsy-proven IMN diagnosed between March of 2015 and December of 2016 were enrolled in this study.

[Construction of shuttle expression vector and expression of thymosin alpha 1 in Synechococcus sp. PCC7942].

The shutter expression vector pPREUT was constructed from the plasmid pPRS-1 containing the endogenous small plasmid of Plectonema boryanum. The expression elements such as heat shock gene groESL promoter, foreign gene Ub-thymosin alpha 1, rbcS polyA terminator and Kanamycin resistance gene were all included. The shutter plasmid pPREUT was directly transferred into Synechococcus sp.