1 Botanical Institute and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, Department of Botany, Raja Peary Mohan College, University of Calcutta, Uttarpara, India, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA, Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, Department o...

Abstract Thanks to their outstanding mechanical properties, Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMGs) are new alternatives traditional crystalline metals for and micromechanical applications including power transmission. However, the tribological properties of BMGs still poorly understood, mostly because amorphous nature induces counter intuitive responses friction wear. In present study, four different (Cu...

The textile industry is one of the fastest-growing industries that significantly contribute to economic growth in Malaysia. Dyeing wastewater more difficult control industrial wastewater. Methylene blue a widely used dye industry, which cannot be discharged directly into natural environment without treatment. present study involves degradation methylene by Fenton-like system using calcium perox...

High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has come forward as alternative treatment for carcinoma of the prostate. Though minimally invasive,HIFUhas potential side effects. Urethrorectal fistula is one such rare side effect. To our knowledge this is first case in which rectourethral fistula secondary to HIFU was repaired with buccal mucosa graft (BMG) over a harvest bed of gracilis flap. This ca...

BACKGROUND In the case of buccal mucosa graft (BMG) urethroplasty for penile urethral strictures (PUS), it is supposed that the ventral onlay (VO) would not assure sufficient nutritional and mechanical support. Because VO requires only one ventral incision of the stenotic urethral segment and does not affect the urethral vasculature, we have design a prospective study related to this issue. M...

SIR, The aetiology and pathogenesis of giant cell arteritis (GCA) and polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) are unknown. The cellular inflammation and immunoglobulin deposition in temporal artery biopsy specimens,' 2 and the dramatic clinical response to steroids suggest that an immunological abnormality might be associated with the pathogenesis of GCA or PMR. Two patients with serum monoclonal IgM and ...

The mean bond length d between a central atom and its nearest neighbors can be estimated from the position of the first peak in the radial distribution function g(r). However, as we demonstrate here, this estimate does not allow one to deduce temperature-induced changes in d. Instead, skewness has to be included into the analysis, which can be achieved, for example, via the skew normal distribu...

Ternary iron-boron-based bulk metallic glasses sBMGsd were explored exhibiting capability of thick amorphous casting at least 1 mm in rod diameter or 0.5 mm in plate thickness, excellent soft magnetic properties with saturation magnetization 1.56 T and coercivity smaller than 40 A/m, and electrical resistivity larger than 200 mV cm. The BMG alloys represented by the formulas MaFebBc are based o...

In contrast with amorphous alloys, nanocrystalline soft magnetic materials show improved thermal stability and higher soft magnetic properties. The nanocrystalline soft magnetic composites are usually fabricated by partially crystallizing from parent amorphous alloys. This paper reports our experimental observation on the sequence of crystallization in metallic glass under a high magnetic field...