A. A. Murthy, S. Norris, A. Subiantoro. Effects of Lubricating oil on the performance of a Four-Intersecting-Vane Rotary Expander / trans. from Engl. M. A. Fedorova by M. A. Fedorova

“…The pressure diagram as function of rotational angle was recorded by six pressure transducers arranged in the working chamber, based on which the features of the expansion process of the four-intersecting-vane rotary expander were analysed. …”
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Active Vibration Suppression of a 3-DOF Flexible Parallel Manipulator Using Efficient Modal Control by Quan Zhang, Jiamei Jin, Jianhui Zhang, Chunsheng Zhao

“…To achieve active vibration control, multiple lead zirconate titanate (PZT) transducers are mounted on the flexible links as vibration sensors and actuators. …”
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BMP-9 mediates fibroproliferation in fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva through TGF-β signaling by Chengzhu Zhao, Yoshiko Inada, Souta Motoike, Daisuke Kamiya, Kyosuke Hino, Makoto Ikeya

“…Thus, BMP-9 aberrantly transduces TGF-β signaling and induces fibroproliferation, initiating flare-ups. …”
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Functional Conducting Polymers in the Application of SPR Biosensors by Rapiphun Janmanee, Sopis Chuekachang, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Akira Baba, Sukon Phanichphant

“…In recent years, conducting polymers have emerged as one of the most promising transducers for both chemical, sensors and biosensors owing to their unique electrical, electrochemical and optical properties that can be used to convert chemical information or biointeractions into electrical or optical signals, which can easily be detected by modern techniques. …”
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Loading and Skeletal Development and Maintenance by P. Bergmann, J. J. Body, S. Boonen, Y. Boutsen, J. P. Devogelaer, S. Goemaere, J. Kaufman, J. Y. Reginster, S. Rozenberg

“…Several extra-cellular mediators, among which NO and prostaglandins are transducing the signal to the effector cells. Disuse results in osteocytes apoptosis and rapid imbalanced bone resorption, leading to severe osteoporosis. …”
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A Modified Time Reversal Method for Guided Wave Detection of Bolt Loosening in Simulated Thermal Protection System Panels by Guan-nan Wu, Chao Xu, Fei Du, Wei-dong Zhu

“…In this paper, the peak amplitude of the focalized wave packet in the reconstructed signal is calculated and utilized as tightness index. By bonding PZT transducers at different joint locations inside the structure, multiple tightness indices, where each tightness index presents the correlation between the current joint condition to its healthy condition at the joint, can be obtained. …”
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Shock Wave Attenuation Characteristics of Aluminum Foam Sandwich Panels Subjected to Blast Loading by Jinglin Xu, Jianqing Liu, Wenbin Gu, Xin Liu, Tao Cao

“…In the experiment, the polyvinylidene fluoride transducers were used to directly test the load of stress wave between different interfaces of sandwich and mild steel structures. …”
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Comparison of Estimation Techniques for Vibro-Acoustic Transfer Path Analysis by Paulo Eduardo França Padilha, José Roberto de França Arruda

“…The operational forces can be directly obtained from measurements using force transducers or indirectly estimated from auxiliary response measurements. …”
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Effects of D128N Mutation on OsSERK2 in Xa21-Mediated Immune Complex: An In Silico Study by Raghib Ishraq Alvy, M. H. M. Mubassir, Mohd Firdaus Abdul-Wahab, Salehhuddin Hamdan

“…Receptor-like kinases (RLKs) are plant proteins that form signaling circuits to transduce information through the plant cell membrane to the nucleus and activate processes that direct growth, development, stress response, and disease resistance. …”
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Damage Detection and Localization from Dense Network of Strain Sensors by Simon Laflamme, Liang Cao, Eleni Chatzi, Filippo Ubertini

“…In order to address this challenge, the authors have recently proposed a novel sensing solution consisting of a low-cost soft elastomeric capacitor that transduces surface strains into measurable changes in capacitance. …”
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Protein tyrosine kinase but not protein kinase C inhibition blocks receptor induced alveolar macrophage activation by K. Pollock, M. T. Withnall

“…PKC activation appears to be required for LPS priming but not for transducing the FMLP signal; rather, PKC activation may modulate the signal by a negative feedback mechanism.…”
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Utilizing Cytokines to Function-Enable Human NK Cells for the Immunotherapy of Cancer by Rizwan Romee, Jeffrey W. Leong, Todd A. Fehniger

“…Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphoid cells important for host defense against pathogens and mediate antitumor immunity. Cytokine receptors transduce important signals that regulate proliferation, survival, activation status, and trigger effector functions. …”
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Adaptive Model Predictive Vibration Control of a Cantilever Beam with Real-Time Parameter Estimation by Gergely Takács, Tomáš Polóni, Boris Rohal’-Ilkiv

“…In addition to the states, the dynamic system has been augmented by the unknown model parameters: stiffness, damping constant, and a voltage/force conversion constant, characterizing the actuating effect of the piezoceramic transducers. The states and parameters of this augmented system have been estimated in real time, using the hybrid extended Kalman filter. …”
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Biodegradable triboelectric nanogenerator as a implantable power source for embedded medicine devices by Gang Jian, Shangtao Zhu, Xiao Yuan, Shengqiao Fu, Ning Yang, Chao Yan, Xu Wang, Ching-Ping Wong

“…This work presents a biodegradable triboelectric nanogenerator (BI-TENG) made from both natural and synthetic biodegradable materials that is utilized to collect mechanical energy in vivo and transduce it into electricity. Reed film and polylactic acid were chosen among different biodegradable materials as the triboelectric layers due to having the best generator output performance by providing voltages that reached 368 V. …”
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Lentivirus‐mediated gene therapy for Fabry disease: 5‐year End‐of‐Study results from the Canadian FACTs trial by Aneal Khan, Dwayne L. Barber, William M. McKillop, C. Anthony Rupar, Christiane Auray‐Blais, Graeme Fraser, Daniel H. Fowler, Alexandra Berger, Ronan Foley, Armand Keating, Michael L. West, Jeffrey A. Medin

“…Their HSPCs were mobilized, enriched, and transduced with a recombinant lentivirus engineering expression of α‐gal A. …”
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Development of DCS SCADA Teaching Module on A Pid-Based Water Level Control Case Using Labview and Factory I/O by Lutfi, Sukriyah Buwarda

“…The virtual plant uses a water tank with instruments consisting of two control valves, namely the fill valve and the discharge valve, and two transducers, namely the level meter and the flow meter. …”
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The Role of Aggregates of Therapeutic Protein Products in Immunogenicity: An Evaluation by Mathematical Modeling by Liusong Yin, Xiaoying Chen, Abhinav Tiwari, Paolo Vicini, Timothy P. Hickling

“…Modeling interactions between aggregates and B cell receptors demonstrated that aggregates are unlikely to induce T cell-independent immune responses by cross-linking B cell receptors because the amount of signal transducing complex that can form under physiologically relevant conditions is limited. …”
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Necroptotic Cell Death Signaling and Execution Pathway: Lessons from Knockout Mice by José Belizário, Luiz Vieira-Cordeiro, Sylvia Enns

“…Under stress conditions, cells in living tissue die by apoptosis or necrosis depending on the activation of the key molecules within a dying cell that either transduce cell survival or death signals that actively destroy the sentenced cell. …”
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Experimental Study on Bond Behavior of FRP-Concrete Interface in Hygrothermal Environment by X. H. Zheng, P. Y. Huang, X. Y. Guo, J. L. Huang

“…Strain gauges bonded along the CFL surface and linear variation displacement transducers (LVDTs) were used to measure longitudinal strains and slip of the interface. …”
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Frost Heave of Irrigation Canals in Seasonal Frozen Regions by Jian Xu, Qinze Wang, Jiulong Ding, Yanfeng Li, Songhe Wang, Yugui Yang

“…The heat and water migration during freezing, and frost heave-induced deformation, and force in normal direction were live monitored by high-precision transducers. The results prove that the freezing front descends downward over time at a specified thermal boundary, with considerable migration of water within the scope of 0–40 cm. …”
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