The contractile behavior of cells is relevant in understanding wound healing and scar formation. In tissue engineering, inhibition of the cell contractile response is critical for the regeneration of physiologically normal tissue rather than scar tissue. Previous studies have measured the contractile response of cells in a variety of conditions (e.g. on two-dimensional solid substrates, on free...

An Efficient Simulation of application specific instruction-set processors (ASIP) is a challenging onus in the area of VLSI design. This paper reconnoiters the possibility of use of ASIP simulators for ASIP Simulation. This proposed study allow as the simulation of the cache memory design with various ASIP simulators like Simple scalar and VEX. In this paper we have implemented the memory confi...

OBJECTIVE To characterise fetal brain growth in children with specific language impairment (SLI). DESIGN A nested case-control study. SETTING Perth, Western Australia. PARTICIPANTS Thirty children meeting criteria for SLI at age 10 years were individually matched with a typically developing comparison child on sex, non-verbal ability, fetal gestational age, maternal age at conception, smo...

Six ruminally fistulated Hereford steers (body weight=414±13 kg) were used in a switch back design to determine whether two particle sizes of alfalfa hay (18.75 and 4.65 mm theoretical cut length) influenced salivary secretion during eating. The experiment carried out in two 26-d periods, with 11-d of adaptation to ration, followed by 5 d for determining the level of voluntary feed intake, 7-d ...

Estimates of ages for short-finned squid (Illex illecebrosus LeSueur) were derived from two different methods for preparing statoliths and enumerating daily increments. Each pair of statoliths was divided between two experienced agers. One (Ager B) ground the statoliths on one side in the frontal plane for examination by light microscopy with camera lucida. The other (Ager G) ground statoliths ...

X ray microtomography experiments were performed in order to evaluate the densification of silica sand submitted to horizontal sinusoidal vibrations carried out at constant frequency (50 Hz) with controlled acceleration and deceleration Γ. Packing homogeneity was characterized using relative density distribution through 3D images of the relaxed samples. Information obtained from the images allo...

Regulatory agencies approve automatic samplers containing peristaltic pumps as a sample collection method for stormwater characterization and for treatment-device evaluation. Autosampler performance, as discussed in the limited available literature, can vary across the entire particle size range typically found in stormwater from different source areas and outfalls-reasonably consistent perform...

The former Soviet encryption algorithm GOST 28147-89 has been standardized by the Russian standardization agency in 1989 and extensive security analysis has been done since. So far no weaknesses have been found and GOST is currently under discussion for ISO standardization. Contrary to the cryptographic properties, there has not been much interest in the implementation properties of GOST, thoug...

Recently, Christoph Thiel and colleagues from Aachen University published an improved physiologically based pharmacoki-netik modeling (PBPK) technique for mouse to human extrapolation (Thiel et al., 2015). This publication will be awarded by the Ebert Prize 2016 of the American Pharmacist Association, which represents the oldest pharmacy award in the United States. The translation of preclinica...

Damping behaviours of the open cell microcellular pure Al foams fabricated by sintering and dissolution process with the relative density of 0?31–0?42 and the pore size of 112–325 mm were investigated. The damping characterisation was conducted on a multifunction internal friction apparatus. The internal friction (IF) was measured at frequencies of 1?0, 3?0 and 6?0 Hz over the temperature range...