The Heart of Mersey cardiovascular disease prevention programme in the UK Launched in 2003, following a visit to Finland, the Heart of Mersey (HoM) cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention programme aims to improve the health of the local population through structural changes at regional, national and European level.(1) Based on the evidence (ie raised blood cholesterol and blood pressure, and t...

protection of water resources from contamination and detection of the contaminants and their treatments are among the essential issues in the management of water resources. in this work, the time-lapse electrical resistivity tomography (ert) surveys were conducted along 7 longitudinal lines in the downstream of the latian dam in jajrood (iran), in order to detect the contamination resulting fro...

Self-assembly of phenylalanine is linked to amyloid formation toxicity in phenylketonuria disease. We are demonstrating that L-phenylalanine self-assembles to amyloid fibrils at varying experimental conditions and transforms to a gel state at saturated concentration. Biophysical methods including nuclear magnetic resonance, resistance by alpha-phenylglycine to fibril formation and preference of...

abstract saturated water content is one of the important parameters which its measurement is necessary in estimation of soil water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curves. in several researches, saturated water content is assumed to be equal to soil total porosity. in some others, its value is estimated by pedotransfer functions using readily available parameters, such as bulk d...

mathematical simulation of flow toward drains is an important and indispensable stage in drainage design and management. many related models have been developed, but most of them simulate the saturated flow toward drains without a due consideration of the unsaturated zone. in this study, the two dimensional differential equation governing saturated and unsaturated flow in porous media is numeri...

We study vortex pattern formation in thin ferromagnetic films under the action of strong spin-polarized currents. Considering the currents which are polarized along the normal of the film plane, we determine the critical current above which the film goes to a saturated state with all magnetic moments being perpendicular to the film plane. We show that stable square vortex-antivortex superlattic...

Simulation of a multicomponent lipid bilayer having a fixed percentage of cholesterol is done to study phase transition leading to domain formation. The concept of random lattice has been used in simulation to account for the coupling between the internal and translational degrees of freedom of lipid molecules. Considering a canonical ensemble, dissimilar lipid molecules are allowed to exchange...

Nanoscale structures have been found to self-assemble in a binary mixture of a long-chain, diacetylenic phospholipid and a short chain, saturated lipid. We observe unusual chiral-optical signatures of nanotubule, twisted ribbon, and microtubule morphologies that can be used to monitor their temporal and thermal stability. Circular dichroism results suggest that chiral packing of the lipids driv...

Introduction: The petrogenesis of the low-Ti lunar ultramafic glasses is critical to the understanding of volcanic processes on the Moon. Popular petrologic models developed to explain the formation of these glasses involve high pressure melting of a variety of sources, including primordial, garnet bearing, lunar mantle and depleted lunar magma ocean (LMO) cumu-lates [1,2,3,4]. Following the hi...