INTRODUCTION: Previously, we described the fabrication of PLGA encapsulated iron oxide nanoand microparticles (Nkansah, et al, ISMRM 2010). These particles are important advancements for molecular and cellular MRI for a number of reasons. First, they incorporate large amounts of iron, especially relative to dextran coated (U)SPIO. Secondly, PLGA has favorable degradation characteristics, with p...

The fluidization of certain biomasses used in thermal processes, such as sawdust, is particularly difficult due to their irregular shapes, varied sizes, and low densities, causing high minimum velocities (Umf). addition an inert material causes its Umf drop significantly. determination the binary mixture however hard obtain. Generally, predictive correlations are based on a small number specifi...

A model of deterministic surface growth studied by Krug and Spohn, a model of the annihilating reaction A + B ! inert studied by Elskens and Frisch, a one-dimensional tree-color cyclic cellular automaton studied by Fisch and a particular automaton that has the number 184 in the classiication of Wolfram can be studied via a certain cellular automaton with stochastic initial data. This automaton ...

S. Anders,, M. F. Toney, T. Thomson, J.-U. Thiele, and B. D. Terris IBM Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120 Shouheng Sun, and C. B. Murray IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 a) Electronic mail: [email protected] Monodisperse FePt nanoparticles were prepared using high temperature solution phase synthesis. Polymer-mediated layer-by-layer gro...

With the target of achieving dense storage of packed medicine of rapid dispensing system in automated pharmacy, an improved adaptive chaotic particle swarm optimization (IACPSO) algorithm was proposed to solve the storage planning problem. According to the proposed IACPSO algorithm, the diversity of the particle swarm was enhanced by using the ergodicity of the chaos motion to initialize the sw...

Abstract While the application of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method for modeling welding processes has become increasingly popular in recent years, little is yet known about quantitative predictive capability this method. We propose a novel SPH model simulation tungsten inert gas (TIG) spot process and conduct thorough comparison between our implementation two finite element (FEM)-ba...

Inert particles are widely used as surrogates for biological in filtration tests. However, there is always a concern that the different physical properties between inert and may affect efficiencies of filter media. In present study, particles, e.g. NaCl polystyrene latex (PSL), E.coli, B.sublitis, bovine serum albumin (BSA), endotoxin, were to evaluate filtering materials surgical mask N95-rate...

BACKGROUND By statute or regulation in the United States and elsewhere, pesticide ingredients are divided into two categories: active and inert (sometimes referred to as other ingredients, adjuvants, or coformulants). Despite their name, inert ingredients may be biologically or chemically active and are labeled inert only because of their function in the formulated product. Most of the tests re...