Nanoparticles (NPs) are emerging as promising carrier platforms for targeted drug delivery and imaging probes. To evaluate the delivery efficiency, it is important to predict the distribution of NPs within blood vessels. NP size, shape and vessel geometry are believed to influence its biodistribution in circulation. Whereas, the effect of size on nanoparticle distribution has been extensively s...

Nowadays, maritime transportation has expanded rapidly, involving the need to enhance several navigation-related issues, particularly concerning safety of navigation, which is significantly impacted by weather conditions. In this regard, creating a wave forecasting system could facilitate vessel movement at harbour entrance or inside sheltered area. Wave characteristics are usually estimated us...

through the last three decades different seismological and engineering approaches for the generation of artificial earthquakes have been proposed. selection of an appropriate method for the generation of applicable artificial earthquake accelerograms (aeas) has been a challenging subject in the time history analysis of the structures in the case of the absence of sufficient recorded accelerogra...

Chronic increases in arterial blood flow elicit an adaptive response of the arterial wall, leading to vessel enlargement and reduction in wall shear stress to physiological baseline value. Release of nitric oxide from endothelial cells exposed to excessive shear is a fundamental step in the remodeling process, and potentially triggers a cascade of events, including growth factor induction and m...

various neurological complications occur in primary or secondary antiphospholipid syndrome (aps) consisting of cerebrovascular attacks, ocular events, dementia, seizure, chorea, and transverse myelopathy that are all related to the titer of antiphospholipid antibodies (apl). we report a patient with chorea and retinal vessel occlusion as manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) and ...

physical modeling for study of deep foundations can be performed in simple chambers (1g), calibration chambers (cc), and centrifuge apparatus (ng). these common apparatus face certain limitations and difficulties. recently, frustum confining vessels (fcv) have been evolved for physical modeling of deep foundations and penetrometers. shaped as the frustum of a cone, this device applies steady pr...