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A 5,000-pound batch of nitroglycerine exploded at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant this morning, killing one worker, leaving another one missing and presumed dead, and turning the building where they worked into a half-acre crater.
One of the workers, James Ernest Brookman, 41, was talking on the telephone with a colleague about transporting a shipment of nitroglycerine when the explosion occurred at 8:53 a.m. Brookman was blown out the building, where his body was found. The body of another employe, Earl Ray Burcham, 41, was not found -- a common occurrence in blasts involving a highly volatile substance.
Most of the plant's functions are performed in small buildings surrounded by high wooden earth-filled barriers, designed to "vent" any accidental blasts upward. To minimize danger, only small numbers of employes work in each unit.
The small, three-story wood building where the blast occurred was surrounded on three sides by a barrier that was almost totally destroyed by the blast. Little else was left in the crater, except for pieces of wood and other fragments.
Nitroblast was once a mining bot on the planet of Tallos 5. At one point in his life, Hero Factory scientists gave the local mining bots the ability to absorb fuel cells through augments in their fingers, which eliminated the need to constantly recharge. This modification was flawed, however, which eventually led to his corruption after gaining an addiction and leaving the planet with several other fuel-craving mining bots. He has committed theft of government property, assault, arson, and extortion, which has caused him to become wanted in half of the galaxy.
The Heroes later returned to the Refueling Station after being Upgraded, and Nitroblast was the first to discover their arrival after William Furno accidentally blasted a tower. The villains managed to gain an upper hand in battle until a Hero Pod containing Julius Nex and Nathan Evo arrived. Nitroblast was startled after Furno attacked and nearly fell off a ledge, though he was saved and captured by Nex and Evo.
Along with the other fire villains he was put in the custody of the Hero Factory. He was awaiting cleansing but when Voltix created a black hole using the Black Hole Orb Staff, Nitroblast and the other villains were able to break their security locks and escape. Nitroblast knocked past Rocka and Surge and escaped into the black hole. He is still at large.
Nitroblast is a loyal henchbot at heart. He truly believes in the Fire Lord's cause and is outstandingly devoted to him. Though his peers often make fun of him for his loyalty, Nitroblast is an efficient henchbot and will carry out the Fire Lord's will without a second thought. He is more intelligent and strategic than the other two and he proves that by easily breaking through any security system.
Congratulations to Jared Tebo, Joe Bornhorst, Seth VanDalen, and Jared Wiggins for insuring that 1/4th of the buggies and ebuggies on the grid in the pro nitro mains were Tekno RC EB/NB48 2.0s. In Pro Truggy it was those 4 plus Tyler Hooks making up nearly 1/3 of the field with NT48 trucks.
In the 15U nitro buggy main Joey Bourdon took a pretty dominant win over the rest of the field checking out early and maintaining his lead all the way through. Brayden Billington brought home a 5th place finish as well!
Nitroblast and the Fire Villains are definitely a soft spot for me in the HF Roster, with some very charming sets and interesting designs from the earliest days of CCBS. With this revamp I wanted to honor the most unique and iconic features from the original, while doing my best to balance a cleaner, sleeker design with the Fire Villain's signature style of spikes, flames and jet engines.
Nitro-explosives contain reducible aromatic -NO2 groups or cyclic >N-NO2 bonds that may undergo reductive cleavage. This work reports the development of a cyclic voltammetric (CV) assay for nitro-aromatics (trinitrotoluene (TNT), dinitrotoluene (DNT)) and nitramines (1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazacyclohexane (RDX) and octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX)) using a glassy carbon electrode. This determination was first used for these energetic materials by resolving current responses of reduction potentials primarily due to one constituent but partly contributed by other constituents. Calibration curves of current intensity versus concentration were linear in the range of 30-120 mg L(-1) for RDX with a limit of detection (LOD) of 10.2 mg L(-1), 40-120 mg L(-1) for HMX (LOD=11.7 mg L(-1)), 40-120 mg L(-1) for TNT (LOD=11.2 mg L(-1)), and 40-140 mg L(-1) for DNT (LOD=10.8 mg L(-1)). Results showed that the CV method could provide a sensitive approach for the simultaneous determination of RDX and TNT in synthetic and real mixtures. Deconvolution of current contributions of mixtures at peak potentials of constituents was performed by multiple linear regression. The proposed method was successfully applied to the analysis of military explosives comp A5 and octol, and method validation was performed both against HPLC on a comp B (TNT+RDX) sample and against GC-MS on real post-blast residual samples containing both explosives.
A. Persons authorized to conduct blasting operations and their employers or persons in charge of the operation shall comply with all provisions of this act and rules and regulations promulgated hereunder. No employer shall employ any person to prepare explosive charges or conduct blasting operations unless such person holds a valid permit to use explosives issued by the commissioner, provided however, that
(a) explosives may be used by a miner in underground mining operations without a permit to use explosives if the blasting operations are under the direct supervision of a person in possession of a valid permit.
D. Except when nitro-carbo-nitrates are mixed at the site of the blast for immediate use, any such mixing shall be deemed to be manufacturing of explosives and shall be subject to all applicable provisions relating thereto.
Accurate identification of nitrotyrosine sites is an essential foundation for revealing the mechanism and function of nitroproteins [13,14]. To identify nitrotyrosine sites, various large-scale proteomic studies are widely adopted in numerous organisms, including Bacillus licheniformis, Bacillus subtilis, Bos taurus, Bungarus multicinctus, Capsella bursa-pastoris, Carica papaya, Cricetulus migratorius, Enterobacteria phage fd, Escherichia phage lambda, Enterobacteria phage T4, Enterococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, Fusarium oxysporum, Halobacterium salinarum, Hirudo medicinalis, Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Naja atra, Naja melanoleuca, Neurospora crassa, Ophiophagus hannah, Oryctolagus cuniculus, Ovis aries, Finegoldia magna, Phascolopsis gouldii, Physeter catodon, Pseudomonas putida, Rattus norvegicus, Rhodococcus rhodochrous, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizophyllum commune, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptomyces albogriseolus, Struthio camelus, Sus scrofa, Thermus thermophilus, Tobacco mosaic virus, and Protobothrops flavoviridis [1,7,8,10,14,15]. Despite the increasing number of experimentally identified nitrotyrosine sites, the mechanism of site-specific nitration modifications on tyrosine still remains largely unknown, possibly because of the constraints of measurement technologies [3,12,13]. On the other hand, experimental verification of nitrotyrosine sites is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and sometimes biased toward the abundant proteins. Therefore, an in silico approach can serve as an alternative strategy for proteome-wide identification of nitrotyrosine sites.
To date, several computational models have been proposed to predict nitrotyrosine sites [16,17]. The first predictor GPS-YNO2, by Liu et al. [17], was constructed from their original group-based prediction system (GPS) with four statistical measures (i.e., k-means clustering, weight training, matrix mutation, and motif length selection). Another predictor iNitro-Tyr, by Xu et al. [16], was based on a composition of pseudo amino acid encoding with a Jackknife test. The iNitro-Tyr and GPS-YNO2 predictors achieved a good performance on cross-validation (CV) tests using the training dataset (specificity at 85%, Matthews correlation coefficient at 49% and 21%, respectively). However, test on an independent dataset was not conducted.
Unbalanced datasets often make statistical learning procedures intractable and may hamper the accuracy [23,24]. To avoid possible biased prediction, non-nitrotyrosine sites were randomly selected from the whole negative sample pool to maintain a 1:1 positive versus negative sample ratio in the training model. The curated datasets are included in our online server.
where N means qikqj appears N times in the nitrotyrosine/non-nitrotyrosine site. PSSM (v, qi) denotes the score of residue qi at the vth row position of PSSM in qikqj, and PSSM (v + k + 1, qj) positions for the residue qj at the (v + k + 1)th row position of PSSM in qikqj. It is noteworthy that we also neutralized the gap (-) as a zero on the sequence fragments of nitrotyrosine/non-nitrotyrosine sites and did not count it in our final vector. More details of the pbCKSAAP scheme can be found in our previous article [18].
To further validate the robustness and performances of NTyroSite, we combined the training and independent sets and analyzed again via 3-fold CV tests using the randomly sampled datasets with a different positive versus negative ratio (See Table S3). Although the performances yielded are slightly lower than the original training model of NTyroSite, the consistent performance still proved the robustness of NTyroSite in predicting nitrotyrosination proteins.
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