Nano-dispersions of perfluorocarbon (PFC) or PFC emulsions are substitutes of erythrocytes. They perform the function of the gas transport on condition when the particle structure will be preserved. The invariable values of the size and surface properties of the spherical PFC particles characterize the stability of their structure. The stable nano-dispersion on base PFC and phospholipids (PL) a...

Polymeric particles in custom designed geometries and with tunable chemical anisotropy are expected to enable a variety of new technologies in diverse areas such as photonics, diagnostics and functional materials. We present a simple, high throughput and high resolution microfluidic method to synthesize such polymeric particles. Building off earlier work that we have done on continuous flow lit...

While the selection of idioms for beginning level CFL learning and instruction is mostly determined byindividual preferences and pedagogical considerations, we propose that idiom selection targeting intermediateand advanced level CFL learners is better guided by a data-driven approach. Based on 20-million charactercorpus of Chinese news texts, we generated a reference frequency list...

Tropolone emerged from the screening of a chelator fragment library (CFL) as an inhibitor of the Zn(2+)-dependent virulence factor, Pseudomonas aeruginosa elastase (LasB). Based on this initial hit, a series of substituted tropolone-based LasB inhibitors was prepared, and a compound displaying potent activity in vitro and in a bacterial swarming assay was identified. Importantly, this inhibitor...

The memory game, or concentration, as it is sometimes called, is a popular card game played by children and adults around the world. Good memory is one of the qualities required in order to succeed in it. This however is not enough. When it is assumed that the players have perfect memory, the memory game can be seen as a game of strategy. The game is analysed under this assumption and the optim...

BACKGROUND Duration of esthetic treatments may contribute to subject satisfaction. OBJECTIVE Describe response duration with onabotulinumtoxinA in crow's feet lines (CFL) and the association of duration with perception of improvement. METHODS Subjects from 2 double-blind, placebo-controlled trials received onabotulinumtoxinA 24 U in CFL; Study 2 subjects could also receive 20 U in glabella....

The one-loop polarisation tensor and the propagation of " in-medium " photons of colour superconductors in the 2SC and CFL phase is discussed. For a study of thermal corrections to the low energy effective theory in the 2SC phase, a classical transport theory for fermionic quasiparticles is invoked.

In this paper, we present a Web-based English abstract writing tool, the “BEAR (Building English Abstracts by Ricoh).” This English writing tool is aimed at helping Japanese software engineers improve the organization of their writing by enabling them to select a rhetorical template of the target abstract and to build up component sentences while having access to good-quality sample sentences. ...

In this paper, we utilize the maximum-principle-preserving flux limiting technique, originally designed for high order weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) methods for scalar hyperbolic conservation laws, to develop a class of high order positivity-preserving finite difference WENO methods for the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. Our schemes, under the constrained transport (CT...