A Basic Developmental Scenario for the Maglev Highway ― Maglev Highway as the Future of Transport ―
A Maglev system, in which cars sit on magnetically levitated pallets, could potentially produce substantial benefits compared to conventional car travel, particularly on long distance routes. This paper describes basic developmental scenarios applied to the future of high-speed ground transportation.
Basic sensitivity analysis of parameters for the Maglev highway
This report supplements past studies by analysing operational situations, focusing on transport performance of the system to establish the major parameters of a Maglev Highway. Sensitivity analyses of the major parameters for transport performance that were established in this way - pallet weight, pallet air resistance, magnetic levitation gap length, linear motor gap length, and target speed - were performed to clarify the problems and challenges that will be faced when developing the Maglev Highway for use by passenger cars and large vehicles.
Effect of a new inhibitor of cholesterol biosynthesis (AY 9944) on serum and tissue sterols in the rat.
AY 9944 is a novel inhibitor of cholesterol biosynthesis which appears to act on the Delta 7-reductase enzyme, interfering with the conversion of 7-dehydrocholesterol to cholesterol. In all tissues studied, with the exception of the lens, there was a reduction in cholesterol and a marked accumulation of 7-dehydrocholesterol. Isotope studies showed a reduced uptake of acetate into cholesterol, and an increased uptake into 7-dehydrocholesterol, in various tissues in vivo and by skin samples in vitro. There was no apparent accumulation of lanosterol or of the methostenols in the rat skin.