The exquisite structures produced by biological systems provide inspiration for the fabrication of nanomaterials. We sometimes forget, however, that Nature can provide muscle while serving as a Muse--a wide array of nanosystems are produced biologically that can be used for the design of functional materials. At the 2007 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting in Boston, Symposium MM (Biomolecu...

An estimated 16 million Americans are afflicted with some degree of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), accounting for 100,000 deaths per year. The only current treatment for chronic irreversible pulmonary failure is lung transplantation. Since the widespread success of single and double lung transplantation in the early 1990s, demand for donor lungs has steadily outgrown the supply. ...

Inspiration has received little theoretical or empirical attention within psychology. Inspiration is conceptualized herein as a general construct characterized by evocation, motivation, and transcendence. In Studies 1a and 1b, a trait measure of inspiration was developed and was found to have strong psychometric properties. Studies 2a-2c documented a nomological network consistent with the pres...

Eighteen patients were studied, during operations under subarachnoid or extradural anaesthesia combined with general anaesthesia, to assess the influence of occlusion of inspiration on the duration of inspiration, and the likelihood of a relationship between lung volume and duration of inspiration. Ten patients breathed 2% enflurane and eight breathed 1% halothane, using 67% nitrous oxide in ox...

In this research about the comparative studies of Natural environment and cities, author intends to focus on different kinds literary genres texts through which relation between concept Nature cities would be studied examined. The uses various perspectives seeing works - especially visual arts verbal – in terms culture humanity. By doing so, hopes bring a better understanding towards true meani...