Current blast furnace technology is a two-stage ironmaking process that requires that iron ore concentrate first be formed into pellets, fired at 1260°C, cooled, transported to the blast furnace, and then re-heated to approximately 1500°C to produce pig iron. This heating, cooling, and then reheating wastes a great deal of energy, which would be saved if the ironmaking process had only a single...

Explosions occur in military conflicts as well as in various industrial applications. Air blast waves generated by large explosions move outward with high velocity, pressure and temperature. The blast waves not only incapacitate military and civilian personnel, but also damages buildings, vehicles, and other properties. Hence, there has been extensive research on how to mitigate blast wave effe...

Tabular and ultrastructural studies were made of 1,000 cells, each from the thoracic duct lymph of six adult, clinically normal cats. Cells of the thoracic duct lymph were morphologically classified by visual inspection at the ultrastructural level and found to consist of 84.9% lymphocytes, 5.7% lymphoid blast cells, 6.7% immature and mature plasmacyte-like cells, 0.2% monocytes, 0.4% mitotic c...

Letters to the Editor 151 Fig. 1. Blood film demonstrating chronic myeloid leukemia in lymphoid blast transformation. in beta-thalassemia patients: a single-center experience and a concise review of the literature. Chronic myelogenous leukemia in sickle cell/beta 0-thalassemia. of lymphoma with bone marrow involvement in a boy with beta+ thalassaemia major. Pediatric chronic myeloid leuke-mia w...

A rare clinical observation of advanced myeloid sarcoma developed through blast transformation post-polycythemia vera myelofibrosis as extramedullary manifestation acute leukemia affecting larynx, laryngopharynx, trachea, soft tissues the neck, pleura, and skeletal bones is presented.

Previous studies by others using metabolic labeling, cell lysis, and immunoprecipitation have reported elevated levels of p53 protein in blast cells derived from patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML), whereas p53 protein was not detected in normal light-density bone marrow cells. In this report, using the same detection methods, we confirm the ne...

Lymphocytes are the best-studied higher eukaryote cells. In this report, quantitative relationships of the protein components in resting cell, blast cell and plasma cell types are evaluated. The comparison of these cell types leads to the conclusion that resting cells synthesize about one-twentieth of the protein species as compared to blast cells. Blast cells seem to be metabolically the most ...

Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) is a disease characterised by a distinctive marker that is the Philadelphia Chromosome and an ability to transform into blast phase, which confers a poor prognosis. The median survival was reported to be between three to six months in correlation to blast phase. Extramedullary involvement with CML to sites such as pleural, meningeal and bones have been reported. ...

Computer-aided diagnosis system of leukemic cells is vital tool, which can assist domain experts in the diagnosis and evaluation procedure. Accurate blast cells segmentation is the initial stage in building a successful computer-aided diagnosis system. Blast cells segmentation is still an open research topic due to several problems such as variation of blats cells in terms of color, shape and t...

Human blood and tonsil B lymphocytes were fractionated on density gradients and tested for virus binding and penetration into the cells. Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) transformation was detected by immunofluorescence staining for EBV-determined nuclear antigen (EBNA). EBV bound to and penetrated all B cell populations, but only the high density populations were transformed. Activated B lymphocytes w...