Mean Time to Achieve a Failure-Free Requirement under Provisions of Spare and Repair
This paper obtains an expression for the mean test-time to achieve a failure-free requirement under the provisions of spare and repair.
Mean Time to Achieve a Failure-Free Requirement with Imperfect Repair
This paper obtains expressions for the mean test time to achieve a failure-free requirement with imperfect repair, under two plans. First do complete repair (good as new) at an even number of failures and partial repair (bad as old) otherwise. Next do complete repair at every k-th failure and partial repair otherwise. Plan 1 is a special case of plan 2 (with k = 2).
Melanocins A, B and C, new melanin synthesis inhibitors produced by Eupenicillium shearii. I. Taxonomy, fermentation, isolation and biological properties.
New melanin synthesis inhibitors, melanocins A, B and C, were isolated from the fermentation broth and mycelium extract of Eupenicillium shearii F80695. Melanocin A, an isocyanide compound, inhibited mushroom tyrosinase and melanin biosynthesis of B16 melanoma cells with IC50 value of 9.0 nM and MIC value of 0.9 microM, respectively. Melanocin A also inhibited growth of Streptomyces bikiniensis. While, the structurally very related but non-isocyanide compounds melanocins B and C did not show inhibitory activity in these assays. Melanocins A, B and C showed potent antioxidant activity with scavenging activity of DPPH radical and superoxide anion radical.