Amniotic membrane has been employed in the treatment of wounds for almost 100 years, beginning with early application of natural amniotic membrane obtained from labor and delivery to various types of burns and wounds. Amniotic membrane is rich in collagen and various growth factors that support the healing process to both improve wound closure and reduce scar formation. Unique properties...

We investigate the effect of rotating, triaxial halos on disk galaxies through an extensive set of numerical N -body simulations. Our simulations use a rigid potential field for the halos and bulges and collisionless particles for the disks. The triaxiality and the rotation rate of the halo are varied, as well as the masses of all three galaxy components. We analyze both the bar stability and t...

The Kir4.1 gene (KCNJ10) encodes an inwardly rectifying K(+) channel subunit abundantly expressed in the CNS. Its expression in the mammalian inner ear has been suggested but its function in vivo in the inner ear is unknown. Because diverse human hereditary deafness syndromes are associated with mutations in K(+) channels, we examined auditory function and inner ear structure in mice with a gen...

The economic impact of fouling in spiral wound membranes is not yet well explored. There has been an established assumption that the cost membrane processes significant, but this hypothesis thoroughly evaluated. We conducted analysis on seven full-scale installations, four nanofiltration (NF) and three reverse osmosis (RO), to estimate industrial plants. was calculated detail, including costs i...

Reappearance of the structures involved in adhesion of the corneal epithelium to the stroma was studied in healing 7 mm keratectomy wounds in rabbit corneas. Corneas were taken at 48 and 66 hr, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 weeks, and 4, 6 and 12 months post-wounding. Immunolocalization of bullous pemphigoid antigen (BPA), laminin and type VII collagen was used to determine time and sequence of appearanc...

3 S u m m a r y : We present simulations of the 3D nonlinear induction equation in order to investigate the temporal evolution of large-scale magnetic elds in spiral galaxies. Our model includes diierential rotation, ambipolar diiusion and, based on small-scale turbulence, eddy diiusivity and the tensorial-eeect with magnetic feedback. The nonax-isymmetric spiral pattern and { if considered { t...

Intermediate-scale spurs are common in spiral galaxies, but perhaps most distinctively evident in a recent image showing a quasi-regular series of dust lanes projecting from the arms of M51 (Scoville & Rector 2001). We investigate, using time-dependent numerical MHD simulations, how such spurs could form (and subsequently fragment) from the interaction of a gaseous interstellar medium with a st...

In this paper, a three dimensional spiral cochlear finite element model is established based on the experimental data of the actual right human ear to study the curvature effect on the amplitude of the spiral basilar membrane (BM). Harmonic response analysis is then carried out. The simulation results are in good agreement with the published experimental results, which confirm the validity of t...

The feasibility of employing nanofiltration (NF) in the decolorization of ionic (direct blue 86) and nonionic (disperse blue 56) dye aqueous solutions was investigated. The effects of feed concentration (60- 180 mg/l), pressure (0.5- 1.1 MPa) and pH (6- 10) were studied. Experiments were performed in a laboratory- scale set up by using a TFC commercial spiral wound polyamide nanofilter. The res...