We report cross-shore profile evolution at Palanga, eastern Baltic Sea, where short period waves dominate. Cross-shore studies began directly after a significant coastal erosion event caused by storm “Anatol”, in December of 1999, and continued for year. Further measurements were undertaken sixteen years later. changes described, transport rates calculated. A K-means clustering technique was ap...

A multilayered hydrogel film system based on hyaluronic acid-cysteamine (HA-Cym) and polyvinylalcohol (PVA) was fabricated. It contained a drug-impermeable backing layer, a supporting layer preventing direct contact between the loaded drug and the backing layer, a drug-loading layer and a mucoadhesive layer. Scanning electron microscopy demonstrated the presence of the distinct layers. The comp...

NTM are bacteria with a lipid-rich, impermeable outer membrane that results in slow growth, antibiotic-resistance, disinfectant-resistance (e.g., chlorine), acid-tolerance, and propensity to stick to pipe surfaces. The lipid-rich outer membrane is the major determinant of their ecology as: (1) NTM grow slowly because they use a great deal of energy to make the long chain fatty acids in the oute...

[1] Describing the canonical properties of turbulent flows over rough-permeable walls such as gravel beds, vegetatedor snow-covered surfaces have, to date, resisted complete theoretical treatment. The major complication in describing such geophysical flows is that the friction factor Reynolds number relationships significantly deviate from their conventional Nikuradse curves or Moody diagrams d...

We report the visualization of NO production using fluorescence in tissue slices of the mouse main olfactory bulb. This discovery was possible through the use of a novel, cell-trappable probe for intracellular nitric oxide detection based on a symmetric scaffold with two NO-reactive sites. Ester moieties installed onto the fluorescent probe are cleaved by intracellular esterases to yield the co...

BACKGROUND Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is characterized by the deposition of ß-amyloid peptides (Aß) in and surrounding the wall of microvasculature in the central nervous system, together with parenchymal amyloid plaques collectively referred to as cerebral amyloidosis, which occurs in the brain commonly among the elderly and more frequently in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). CAA...

Fructose does not maintain the electrical activity of the cerebral cortex in the hepatectomized animal (1). However, whole brain (2) and cortex (3) oxidize fructose in vitro. These facts may be explained by assuming that the brain cells are impermeable to fructose in viva, or that the oxidation of fructose is not concerned in the maintenance of cortical activity. The latter supposition makes it...