A 33-year-old woman was referred to Iida Municipal Hospital because of left back pain. Computed tomography showed a tumor (17 x 11 x 10 cm) in the left retroperitoneal space. T1- and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging showed an inhomogeneous mass with marginal blood vessels. The tumor was resected via lumbar oblique incision with the thoraco-abdominal approach. The tumor weighed 1800 g and ...

Mesoporous carbons were synthesized via both soft and hard template methods and compared to a commercial powder activated carbon (PAC) for the adsorption ability of bisphenol-A (BPA) from an aqueous solution. The commercial PAC had a BET-surface of 1027 m²/g with fine pores of 3 nm and less. The hard templated carbon (CMK-3) material had an even higher BET-surface of 1420 m²/g with an average p...

We discuss the structure of the soft supersymmetry breaking terms in a MSSM like model, which can be derived from D7–branes with chiral matter fields from 2–form f–fluxes and supersymmetry breaking from 3-form G–fluxes.

Formation of compact colonies of Staphylococcus aureus in serum-soft agar is mainly a result of a reaction between protein A and the Fc-part of immunoglobulin G and not a clumping factor-fibrinogen reaction.

Aging observed in soft glassy materials inherently affects the rheological properties of these systems and has been described by the soft glassy rheology (SGR) model [S. M. Fielding, J. Rheol. 44, 323 (2000)]. In this paper, we report the measured linear rheological behavior of thermosensitive microgel suspensions and compare it quantitatively with the predictions of the SGR model. The dynamic ...

Starting from the kinetic formulation of the hard thermal loop effective theory, we have (re)derived the collision terms for soft modes of order g2T log(1/g) by averaging the statistical fluctuations in the plasma.

Cite This Article Asteris, P. G., Armaghani, D. J., Cavaleri, L., Nguyen, H. (2023). Introduction to the Special Issue on Soft Computing Techniques in Materials Science and Engineering. CMES-Computer Modeling Engineering & Sciences, 135(2), 839–841.

studies of the magnetization of fe2o3@pt nanoparticles at room temperature showed that there is superparamagnetic contribution with high saturation magnetization about 12.35(emu/g), and soft ferromagnetic contribution with narrow coercive field about 58(oe). in this paper we fitted the hystersis loop of sample with brillouin function that demonstrating existence of superparamagnetic phase. tota...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) allows the acquisition of high-resolution images and the measurement of mechanical properties of living cells under physiological conditions. AFM cantilevers with blunted pyramidal tips are commonly used to obtain images of living cells. Measurement of mechanical properties with these tips requires a contact model that takes into account their blunted geometry. The...

The understanding of size-dependent properties is key to the implementation of nanotechnology. One controversial and unresolved topic is the influence of characteristic size on the glass transition temperature (T(g)) for ultrathin films and other nanoscale geometries. We show that T(g) does depend on size for polystyrene spherical domains with diameters from 20 to 70 nm which are formed from ph...