The mammalian growth plate is a dynamic structure rich in extracellular matrix (ECM). Interactions of growth plate chondrocytes with ECM proteins regulate cell behavior. In this study, we compared chondrocyte adhesion and spreading dynamics on fibronectin (FN) and bone sialoprotein (BSP). Chondrocyte adhesion and spreading were also compared with fibroblasts to analyze potential cell-type-speci...

Objective: The present study was carried out to isolate and identify L. acidophilus and to compare the effect of inoculation methods and cultivation conditions on the yield of the bacteria. Methods: Probiotic Lactobacillus strain was isolated from a commercial yogurt and the characterization of the bacteria was performed using gram stain, motility, catalase, biochemical tests and morphological ...

In the last decade, the global emergence of carbapenem resistance in Enterobacteriaceae has posed great concern to public health. Data concerning the role of environmental contamination in the dissemination of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are currently lacking. Here, we aimed to examine the extent of CRE contamination in various sites in the immediate surroundings of CRE carrie...

The imaging characteristics of an arc-shaped xenon gas ionization chamber for the purpose of megavoltage CT imaging were investigated. The detector consists of several hundred 320 microm thick gas cavities separated by thin tungsten plates of the same thickness. Dose response, efficiency and resolution parameters were calculated using Monte Carlo simulations. The calculations were compared to m...

BACKGROUND Malignant breast tumor tissue has a significantly different electrical impedance spectrum than surrounding normal tissues. This has led to the development of impedance imaging as a supplementary or alternative method to X-ray mammography for screening and assessment of breast cancers. However low spatial resolution and poor signal to noise ratio has limited the clinical application. ...

PREMISE OF RESEARCH A large number of fossil coryphoid palm wood and fruits have been reported from the Deccan Intertrappean beds of India. We document the oldest well-preserved and very rare costapalmate palm leaves and inflorescence like structures from the same horizon. METHODOLOGY A number of specimens were collected from Maastrichtian-Danian sediments of the Deccan Intertrappean beds, Gh...

By passing a suspension of polymorphonuclear leucocytes through a parallel-plate chamber their adhesiveness can be assessed by scoring the number of cells trapped on the lower plate, and the fluid shear stress can be defined for a given flow rate. Since the adhesiveness of the cell at the instant of collision must exceed the distractive shear if the cell is to stop, the kinetics of cell accumul...

Due to the problems of dispersion and multi-modes overlap for ultrasonic Lamb wave propagation, it is difficult to use it in many fields, such as long-range inspection. After ultrasonic Lamb waves are generated by a broadband ultrasonic pulse, these problems make the wave packets to spread out and various modes overlap in both time and space domain as they propagate through a plate or pipe. It ...

The present work involves measurements to examine the effects of initial conditions on aerodynamic and acoustic characteristics of a Jet at M=0.8 by changing the orientation of sharp edged orifice plate. A thick plate with chamfered orifice presented divergent and convergent openings when it was flipped over. The centerline velocity was found to decay more rapidly for divergent orifice and that...

Time-hopping patterns can be constructed from simple difference sets. By studying such constructions, we prove that whenever n 2, n, n 1, or n + 1 is a prime power, then we can construct timehopping patterns that have n terms, and are of length less than n2. We show by computation that such patterns can have length less then n2 n’ for all n 5 150. We also show that time-hopping patterns of n te...