Alpha-1-proteinase inhibitor (API) is one of the acute phase proteins. Following an inflammatory stimuli the concentration of API increased up to four folds. Accompanying these quantitative changes, there is qualitative alterations in the structure of carbohydrate moiety (glycosylation). To determine the alterations in the glycosylation of API in inflammation, API was isolated from the sera of...

SETTING Atoifi Adventist Hospital (AAH), Solomon Islands, the only hospital in the East Kwaio region. OBJECTIVE To use routine surveillance data to assess the trends in malaria from 2008 to 2013. DESIGN Descriptive study of records from (1) AAH laboratory malaria records; (2) admissions to AAH for malaria; and (3) malaria treatments from outpatient records. RESULTS AAH examined 35 608 blo...

A particle suspended in a fluid within a microfluidic channel experiences a direct acoustic radiation force (ARF) when traveling surface acoustic waves (TSAWs) couple with the fluid at the Rayleigh angle, thus producing two components of the ARF. Most SAW-based microfluidic devices rely on the horizontal component of the ARF to migrate prefocused particles laterally across a microchannel width....

In order to increase the performance of a primary sedimentation tank (clarifier), it is essential to have a uniform and calm flow field. The use of suitable baffle configurations may help forming favorable flow field and increase the efficiency of the primary sedimentation tank. In order to find the proper position of a baffle in a rectangular primary sedimentation tank, computational investiga...

Infusion devices for continuous and precise drug administration are indispensable tools in anaesthesia and critical care medicine. Problems such as start-up delays, non-continuous flow and susceptibility to hydrostatic pressure changes at low infusion rates resulting in accidental bolus release or prolonged flow interruption are inherent to current infusion technology. In order to improve preci...

Cascaded Raman wavelength shifting up to the fourth order ranging from 2092 to 2450 nm is demonstrated using a nanosecond pump at 1995 nm in a low-loss As(38)Se(62) suspended-core microstructured fiber. These four Stokes shifts are obtained with a low peak power of 11 W, and only 3 W are required to obtain three shifts. The Raman gain coefficient for the fiber is estimated to (1.6±0.5)×10(-11) ...

In the referenced paper [ 11, the author examines the stability of the planar, linear response of a suspended cable subjected to harmonic axial loading. The study is motivated by a desire to understand the dynamic stability of cables employed in structures such as cablestayed bridges or guy-towers. In these applications, the harmonic axial load derives from the dynamic reaction of the structure...