The concept of blended learning, defined in a range of ways, has begun to change the nature of all teaching and learning in higher education. Information and communication technologies have impacted by providing a means of access to digital resources and interactive communication for all courses and the blending of pedagogy and technology has produced a range of approaches to teaching and learn...

electrically conducting nanofiber mats of polyaniline/copolyacrylonitrile (pani/ pan) blend in nmp were successfully fabricated using electrospinning technique. morphology and diameter of the nanofibers were studied by scanning electron microscope. structural characteristics of the electrospun nanofibers were examined using differential scanning calorimetry, fourier transform infrared spectrosc...

In this study, we have investigated the biodistribution and pharmacokinetic analysis of paclitaxel (PTX) and the apoptotic signaling molecule, C6-ceramide (CER), when administered in a multifunctional polymer-blend nanoparticle formulation to female nude mice bearing an orthotopic drug sensitive MCF7 and multidrug resistant MCF7 TR (MDR-1 positive) human breast adenocarcinoma. A polymer-blend n...

Reasoning processes require stable representations of constraints. There are two principal ways to achieve stability in conceptual models. First, the conceptual models that anthropologists call cultural models achieve representational stability via a combination of intrapersonal and interpersonal processes. Second, the association of conceptual structure with material structure can stabilize co...

A Hamiltonian framework of non-equilibrium thermodynamics is adopted to construct a set of dynamical continuum equations for a polymer blend with matrix viscoelasticity and a narrow droplet size distribution that is assumed to obey a Weibull distribution function. The microstructure of the matrix is described in terms of a conformation tensor. The variable droplet distribution is described in t...

A previous computational model (Joordens & Besner, 1994) has suggested that during lexical access, ambiguous words tend toward a blend state; that is, network activations settle into an incorrect state that is a mixture of the multiple representations of the ambiguous item. It has been suggested that this blend state actually aids lexical decision (LD) for ambiguous items as the blend state cre...

In response to concerns expressed by applicants regarding inconsistent policies in establishing blend uniformity acceptance criteria to demonstrate adequacy of mix, the FDA Office of Generic Drugs (OGD) issued the draft document Guidance for Industry, ANDAs: Blend Uniformity Analysis (August 1999). Both generic and innovator pharmaceutical companies raised a number of concerns following the pub...

In this paper, we present an application of a space mapping technique for surface reconstruction (more precisely: reconstruction of missing parts of a real geometric object represented by volume data). Using a space mapping technique, the surface of a given model, in particular tooth shape is fitted by a shape transformation to extrapolate the remaining surface of a patient's tooth with occurri...

polypropylene / polystyrene blends containing montmorillonite (mmt) were prepared using a twin screw extruder followed by fiber spinning. the melt intercalation of pp and ps alloys was carried out in the presence of a compatibilizer such as maleic anhydride-g-polypropylene (mpp). the crystallization morphology, thermal behaviors and mechanical properties of polypropylene/polystyrene (pp/ps) nan...

application of supramolecular polymer blending in preparation of materialswith adjustable mechanical properties is addressed. it is anticipated that the microstructure and properties of polymer blends are drastically controlled by the inter-molecular interactions. on this basis, the effect of strongly dimerising ureidopyrimidinone end groups (upy) with the capability of quadruple hydrogen bondi...