How some labs put more bio into biomaterials

Putting the Bio into Biomaterials

Ontologies Put More Meaning into Meaningful Use

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, positioned the Meaningful Use of interoperable Electronic Health Records as a critical goal and encouraged nationwide EHR adoption. The Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) initiative recommended the following three terminologies for EHRs: SNOM...

Bio-inspired strategies for designing antifouling biomaterials

Contamination of biomedical devices in a biological medium, biofouling, is a major cause of infection and is entirely avoidable. This mini-review will coherently present the broad range of antifouling strategies, germicidal, preventive and cleaning using one or more of biological, chemical and physical techniques. These techniques will be discussed from the point of view of their ability to inh...

Methodologic Limitations Put Into Perspective

T he search for a means of measuring left ventricular volume (LVV) accurately and continuously throughout the cardiac cycle has been long standing. Such efforts have intensified during the past 15 years with the growing appreciation for the wealth of useful information available from analysis of systolic and diastolic ventricular pressure-volume relations. Recently, much effort has gone into de...

An Insight into the Flammability of Some Bio-Based Polyesters

Abstract: The heat release capacity of polymers can be generally predicted using a method based on the additivity of group contributions (the Van Krevelen approach). Nevertheless, there are some exceptions, evidencing that this approach is insufficient and must be completed. In this study, the kinetic triplet accounting for the description of pyrolysis is identified for 11 polymers. Activation ...