PURPOSE Cheiloscopy deals with the study of elevations and depressions which form a characteristic pattern on the external surface of the lips. Lip grooves are considered to be unique and analogous to the fingerprint. The aim of the research was to determine the type of grooves on healthy lips of men and women using lip prints in a sample of Croatian population, to determine whether there is a ...

Introduction: Two thirds of the surface of Ganymede is covered by grooved terrain, suggesting an active history of extensional tectonics. One important piece of Ganymede geological history is to determine the order in which groove-forming events happened. Separating grooves into a time sequence will help to constrain the geological events that formed the grooves. Previous investigations into th...

Quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires have been formed in V-grooves on GaAs substrates. A new fabrication technique based on in situ thermal etching of masked substrates and subsequent overgrowth by molecular beam epitaxy has been developed. The device geometries enabled formation of low-resistance ohmic contacts. Two-terminal magnetoresistance measurements of single-wire devices show transport q...

We analyse the response of osteoblasts on grooved substrates via a model that accounts for the cooperative feedback between intracellular signalling, focal adhesion development and stress fibre contractility. The grooved substrate is modelled as a pattern of alternating strips on which the cell can adhere and strips on which adhesion is inhibited. The coupled modelling scheme is shown to captur...

A remarkable characteristic of the surface of Phobos is that it is densely covered by grooves--long linear depressions formed in a regolith. Typically, grooves are 100-200 m wide, 10-20 m deep, and have smooth concave-up cross profiles. Some can be traced for up to 30 km. Groove paths follow the intersection of planes with the surface of Phobos. Groove planes are grouped in four sets of paralle...

The low pressure (20 mbar) organometallic vapour phase epitaxy (LP-OMVPE) of GaAs/GalnP in asymmetric grooves, patterned on (111)B GaAs substrates, has been examined. One of the characteristic features of this deposition is that facets develop along the top edges where the side wall planes meet the top surface. The origin of small facets at the top edge appears to be due to pre-growth condition...

Bio-molecular recognition is detected by the unique optical properties of self-assembled gold nanoparticles on the unclad portions of an optical fiber whose surfaces have been modified with a receptor. To enhance the performance of the sensing platform, the sensing element is integrated with a microfluidic chip to reduce sample and reagent volume, to shorten response time and analysis time, as ...

In this article, turbulent flow heat transfer in the air gap between rotor and stator of a generator under nonhomogeneous heat flux is studied experimentally. The rotor consists of four symmetrical triangular grooves. The stator surface is smooth and does not include any grooves. The relative heat flux between the rotor and the stator is 1 to 3. Temperature and heat flux are measured locally at...

In this article, turbulent flow heat transfer in the air gap between rotor and stator of a generator under nonhomogeneous heat flux is studied experimentally. The rotor consists of four symmetrical triangular grooves. The stator surface is smooth and does not include any grooves. The relative heat flux between the rotor and the stator is 1 to 3. Temperature and heat flux are measured locally at...