To determine the role of surface tension-driven melt migration in planetary bodies, we investigated the effect of static annealing on the evolution of melt-rich bands in partially molten samples. In shear deformation experiments, deviatoric stress causes melt to segregate; when the stress is removed, surface tension causes the melt to relax back to a homogeneous distribution. Samples composed o...

This work investigates the crystallization kinetics and thermal stability of a new melt processable semicrystalline polyimide (Tg= ca. 210°C, Tm= ca. 395°C) based on 1,3bis(4-aminophenoxy) benzene (TPER) and 3,3’,4,4’-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride (BPDA), and endcapped with phthalic anhydride (PA). Earlier studies have demonstrated that this polymer is a strong candidate as a structural a...

Accelerated ice flow near the equilibrium line of west-central Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) has been attributed to an increase in infiltrated surface melt water as a response to climate warming. The assessment of surface melting events must be more than the detection of melt onset or extent. Retrieval of surface melt magnitude is necessary to improve understanding of ice sheet flow and surface mel...

Phase equilibria modelling incorporating melt reintegration offers a methodology to create hypothetical rock compositions that may have existed prior to melt loss, allowing the potential prograde evolution of rocks to be explored. However, melt reintegration modelling relies on assumptions concerning the volume of melt that was lost and is generally restricted by the absence of direct constrain...

BACKGROUND The KMN network, a ten-subunit protein complex, mediates the interaction of kinetochores with spindle microtubules and recruits spindle assembly checkpoint (SAC) constituents to halt cells in mitosis until attainment of sister chromatid biorientation. Two types of motifs in the KMN subunit Knl1 interact with SAC proteins. Lys-Ile (KI) motifs, found in vertebrates, interact with the T...

OBJECTIVES In this case report, we present a patient with ocular tuberculosis presenting with progressive unilateral corneal melting. PATIENT A 47-year-old female was admitted with melting at the inferior half of the peripheral cornea and inferior subconjunctival nodules. Biopsy material of the nodules was negative for tuberculosis bacillus. However, polymerase chain reaction of the biopsy sa...

Introduction: We carried out evaporation experiments on Fe-FeS melt and obtained evaporation rates of sulfur from Fe-FeS melt. The Fe-FeS eutectic temperature is about 988°C (1261K), and this temperature could be achieved in the inner region of the solar nebula, and it should be also achieved during the chondrule formation. It is of importance to understand evaporation kinetics of Fe-FeS melt f...

Melt inclusion and host glass compositions from the eastern end of the Southwest IndianRidge showaprogressive depletion in light rare earth elements (LREE), Na8 and (La/Sm)n, but an increase in Fe8, from the NE (648E) towards the SW (498E).These changes indicate an increase in the degree of mantle melting towards the SWand correlate with a shallowing of the ridge axial depth and increase in cru...

BACKGROUND Rapidly disintegrating or 'fast-melt' oral formulations have been developed recently to facilitate drug intake among patients. Even though these formulations have helped to improve therapy adherence, some of their limitations include: the dissolution time, their facility to be swallowed, and the dosage strengths that may be accommodated. To overcome these limitations, a novel, porous...

[1] Lunar pyroclastic beads are interpreted to represent primitive magmas derived from great depths and rapidly erupted to the surface in explosive events. However, a detailed mechanism for gas generation at great depth and rapid magma transport to the surface has not yet been described. Furthermore, the pyroclastic beads are not petrogenetically related to basalts erupted near the sampling sit...