The new Gen II assay for anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) shows good stability and reliability in serum, but analyses of stability in whole blood are lacking. Testing the effects of storage of whole-blood samples at room temperature revealed significant increases in the measured value of AMH of 31% over 4 days (P<0.001). The effect is temperature dependent, with storage at 4°C showing markedly redu...

At the Taiwan Light Source (TLS), the stability of the electron beam orbit is sensitive to the utility conditions. The beam position showed strong correlation with the temperature while the tunnel temperature variation was more than 0.4°C. In this work, the coolant temperature and the air temperature in the storage ring tunnel were tuned to test the sensitivity of the electron beam orbit. The t...

A cyanate ester/microcapsule system with low cure temperature and self-healing " Abstract: Microcapsules filled with epoxy resin were blended into cyanate ester resin to produce systems with low cure temperature and self-healing capacity. A 4,4′-diaminodiphenylsulfone (DDS) curing agent was adopted for the systems. The mechanical properties, thermal stability and self-healing ability of the sys...

We consider the stability of a compressible shear flow separating two streams of different speeds and temperatures. The velocity and temperature profiles in this mixing layer are hyperbolic tangents. The normal mode analysis of the flow stability reduces to an eigenvalue problem for the pressure perturbation. We briefly describe the numerical method that we used to solve this problem. Then, we ...

Two established thermal properties of enzymes are the Arrhenius activation energy and thermal stability. Arising from anomalies found in the variation of enzyme activity with temperature, a comparison has been made of experimental data for the activity and stability properties of five different enzymes with theoretical models. The results provide evidence for a new and fundamental third thermal...

Polydimethylsiloxane is a silicone rubber. It has a unique flexibility, resulting in one of the lowest glass-transition temperatures of any polymer. Furthermore, it shows a low elasticity change versus temperature, a high thermal stability, chemical inertness, dielectric stability, shear stability and high compressibility. Because of its high flexibility and the very low drift of its properties...

Preliminary results obtained by a code aimed to the analysis of three-dimensional (3D) instability of axisymmetric melt flows in Czochralski crucible are described. The CPU time and the computer memory necessary for the comprehensive 3D stability analysis by a second-order finite volume method are estimated. Basing on a certain experimental configuration, we give an example of the stability dia...

This work seeks to improve understanding of atmospheres in radiative-convective equilibrium. We use two types of idealized, dry radiative-convective models. The first type of model resembles Rayleigh-Benard convection, except that thermal radiative transfer is included. This type of system can be investigated in the laboratory. The second type of model is a more faithful representation of the e...