objective (s): the scarcity of articular cartilage defect to repair due to absence of blood vessels and tissue engineering is one of the promising approaches for cartilage regeneration. the objective of this study was to prepare an extracellular matrix derived decellularized bovine articular cartilage scaffold and investigate its interactions with seeded rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (...

In this paper, we demonstrate the seeded growth of graphene under a plasma chemical vapor deposition condition. First, we fabricate graphene nanopowders (~5 nm) by ball-milling commercial multi-wall carbon nanotubes. The graphene nanoparticles were subsequently subject to a direct current plasma generated in a 100 Torr 10%CH4 - 90%H2 gas mixture. The plasma growth enlarged, over one hour, the n...

The development of improved seeded bermudagrass cultivars has led to an increased interest in these grasses for numerous areas of turfgrass use. One area that has yet to be investigated is the potential to produce sod using a seed-propagated bermudagrass, rather than the standard practice of vegetative propagation, which is currently used. To this end, a series of studies are underway to invest...

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is the most widespread legume in Croatia and its production based on landraces of great morphological diversity. Landraces morphologically differ seed coat color size. Because plant emergence crop establishment represent sensitive stage development, aim this study was to determine whether size Croatian common affect water absorption rate, germination, phenoty...

The goal of the segmentation scheme presented i s t o c ombine edge and region information to achieve a stable segmentation. The segmentation scheme presented is designed t o o p erate on general home and stock photographs, it returns a comprehensive region-based description of the visual content of an image (including a distinction between smooth and textured r egions and a description of the ...

We describe the results of high-resolution numerical simulations of string-induced structure formation in open universes and those with a non-zero cosmological constant. For models with Γ = Ωh = 0.1–0.2 and a cold dark matter background, we show that the linear density fluctuation power spectrum has both an amplitude at 8hMpc, σ8, and an overall shape which are consistent within uncertainties w...