In present work, numerical analysis of three novel PEM fuel cells with tubular geometry was conducted. Tree different cross section was considered for PEM, namely: circular, square and triangular. Similar boundary and operational conditions is applied for all the geometries. At first, the obtained polarization curve for basic architecture fuel cells was validated with experimental data and then...

The fatigue life of tubular joints commonly found in offshore industry is not only dependent on the value of Hot-spot stress (HSS), but is also significantly influenced by the through-the-thickness stress distribution characterized by the degree of bending (DoB). The determination of DoB values in a tubular joint is essential for improving the accuracy of fatigue life estimation using the stres...

This study describes the opposite charge electrospun method for preparation of polyacrilonitrile / DMF nanofibrous tubular structure . Constant a processing parameters such as high polymer concentration and rotational speed mandrel collector with varied applied voltage flow rate in wide range to display effect each one determining diameter , alignment, porosity, mean surface area pores size nan...

We propose a variational approach which combines automatic segmentation and medial structure extraction in a single computationally efficient algorithm. In this paper, we apply our approach to the analysis of vessels in 2D X-ray angiography and 3D X-ray rotational angiography of the brain. Other variational methods proposed in the literature encode the medial structure of vessel trees as a skel...

BACKGROUND Lymphoepithelial cyst (LEC) of the pancreas is a rare benign tumor. LEC with sebaceous glands of the pancreas is extremely rare, and its histogenesis remains unclear. CASE PRESENTATION We present a 66-year-old man with an incidental finding of a cystic lesion at the neck of the pancreas. Pancreatic juice cytology results and elevated serum carbohydrate antigen 19-9 and Dupan-2 leve...

BACKGROUND Nephrotic syndrome (NS) is pathological condition characterized by heavy proteinuria. Our study investigates hypothesis that change in cell proliferation of proximal tubules influences primary cilia structure and function and promotes cystogenesis in congenital nephrotic syndrome of the Finnish type (CNF) and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). METHODS CNF kidneys were analy...

The supra-molecular structure of the title compound, C(9)H(11)N(3)O(3)S(2), is defined by two inter-molecular hydrogen bonds. Pairs of N-H⋯N hydrogen bonds link the mol-ecules into centrosymmetric dimers and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link the dimers into a tubular chain structure running parallel to the a axis.

Histological specimens of 30 distinct adenomas and 30 distinct carcinomas were studied by image analysis to quantify nuclear size and shape. These data were used to derive a discriminant equation, which permitted the lesions to be classified into two groups based on nuclear atypia. Next, 50 superficial type tumors of the colon (34 IIa lesions, 9 IIc + IIa lesions, and 7 IIc lesions) <10 mm in l...

Biomimicking In article 2201346 by Milica Radisic and co-workers, scaffolds fabricated coaxial printing of bioelastomers can mimic both the structures mechanical properties native tissues, which are ideal for organ-on-a-chip tissue engineering applications. This image shows an artistic tubular structure made a biodegradable elastomer called PICO.