Surface soil moisture is important to understand environmental systems and dielectric constant is a convenient physical parameter to describe this. Dielectric Mixing models relate the effective dielectric constant of a heterogeneous medium with the properties of constituent materials. The dielectric properties of the soil is known to have dependence on Soil moisture content along with other fac...

BACKGROUND A correlation between acquired renal cysts in the dialysed kidney and renal cancer has long been debated, but no changes in the physical properties of kidneys at the microscopic level have been reported. The purpose of the present study was to classify the physical properties of the kidneys of patients undergoing haemodialysis at several stages of pathology by use of the scanning aco...

Simulations of organic semiconducting devices using drift-diffusion equations are vital for the understanding of their functionality as well as for the optimization of their performance. Input parameters for these equations are usually determined from experiments and do not provide a direct link to the chemical structures and material morphology. Here we demonstrate how such a parametrization c...

Background: Previous studies have shown considerable variation in diagnostic performance of enzyme linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) for measuring antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA) specific for proteinase 3 (PR3) and myeloperoxidase (MPO). Objective: To analyse the performance characteristics of different commercially available direct ANCA ELISA kits. Methods: ELISA kits for detec...

An analysis of the elastic scattering of deuterons on 6,7Li, 27Al, 54,56,58Fe, 63,65Cu, and 93Nb for energies from 3 to 60MeV has been carried out using a semi-microscopic optical potential which consists of a Coulomb term, a real double-folding (DF) potential, a phenomenological imaginary potential and a spin-orbit component. No normalization constant was involved in this work for the DF real ...

Whether the momentum density associated with an electromagnetic wave in a refracting medium is solely determined by its intensity or is dependent on the refractive index is perhaps of little practical importance, and probably beyond the power of present experimental techniques to decide. Nevertheless, since this question was first propounded by Abraham and Minkowski. it has continued to attract...

We are interested in conductive and radiative transfer of energy in the core of gas cooled reactors. Two scales characterize the problem: macroscopic and microscopic. We want to consider the domain like an equivalent homogenous medium. So we use homogenization theory to compute the effective macroscopic properties which take into account the microscopic structure. We first present a full mathem...

Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) provide a promising third-generation photovoltaic concept based on the spectral sensitization of a wide-bandgap metal oxide. Although the nanocrystalline TiO2 photoelectrode of a DSC consists of sintered nanoparticles, there are few studies on the nanoscale properties. We focus on the microscopic work function and surface photovoltage (SPV) determination of TiO...

When assuming a well stirred reactor and known macroscopic kinetic rates for mass action kinetics, microscopic rate constants for SRSim can be calculated. Prerequisite is knowing the characteristic geometric tolerances for the formation of bonds. In many cases, there will be no values available from biophysical or theoretical experiments yet. Even having generated a certain macroscopic behavior...