BACKGROUND The human tissue kallikrein gene family, located at chromosome 19q13.4, is the largest contiguous family of proteases in the human genome. The locus encodes all 15 members of the family, 13 of which have been reported as potential biomarkers for several carcinomas and other non-neoplastic diseases. Kallikreins are expressed by a wide range of tissues and implicated in a number of phy...

mas·hyy saturated soil liquefaction during earthquakes, shnakhthshdhyy phenomenon that many researchers in the past three decades has attracted. more research on the liquefaction of saturated soils has focused mas·hyy the natural soils are rarely composed of clean sands, and mixed with clay or silt soils, which is why the study has important ghyrkhmyry and paste. despite numerous studies on the...

Glassy polymers show "strain hardening": at constant extensional load, their flow first accelerates, then arrests. Recent experiments have found this to be accompanied by a striking and unexplained dip in the segmental relaxation time. Here we explain such behavior by combining a minimal model of flow-induced liquefaction of a glass with a description of the stress carried by strained polymers,...

INTRODUCTION A Brief History of Coal Liquefaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Process Overview: What Goes In and What Goes Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Need to Motivate Remaining Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

objective: to evaluate the efficacy of in vitro sperm activation (isa) using non-liquefied versus liquefied asthenozoospermic semen samples for improvement of sperm parameters. materials and methods: fifty six oligoasthenozoospermic (oa) patients (age range: 22-44 years; mean: 32.089 years) were enrolled in this study. oa patients were classified according to type of infertility. also, duration...

Mechanical agitation during enzymatic hydrolysis of insoluble plant biomass at high dry matter contents is indispensable for the initial liquefaction step in biorefining. It is known that particle size reduction is an important part of liquefaction, but the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. Here we put forward a simple model based on mechanical principles capable of capturing the resul...

All fossil fuels found in nature — petroleum, natural gas, and coal, based on biogenic hypothesis — are formed through processes of thermochemical conversion (TCC) from biomass buried beneath the ground and subjected to millions of years of high temperature and pressure. In particular, existing theories attribute that petroleum is from diatoms (algae) and deceased creatures and coal is from dep...

The coupled mechanics of fluid-filled granular media controls the physics of many Earth systems such as saturated soils, fault gouge, and landslide shear zones. It is well established that when the pore fluid pressure rises, the shear resistance of fluid-filled granular systems decreases, and as a result catastrophic events such as soil liquefaction, earthquakes, and accelerating landslides may...