Fresh tissues were taken for light microscopy from the trabeculae cameae at the right ventricular base, apex, left ventricular base, and apex of four normal canine hearts and nine whose pulmonary artery had been banded for 7 to 48 weeks. After banding, the width of the intercalated disc at the right base, 1.34 ± 0.10 /x (mean ± SE), was greater than at the right apex, 1.02 ± 0.09 fi (P< 0.002);...

Designer particles synthesized by surfactant-free emulsion polymerization were adsorbed successfully on the sapphire discs. The particles carried a thin layer of an atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) initiator on the surface and were subsequently successfully used to graft PNIPAAM brushes from the surface. The surface coverage of the discs by these particles could be improved by heat t...

We investigate the survival of planetesimal discs over Gyr timescales, using a unified approach that is applicable to all Keplerian discs of solid bodies – dust grains, asteroids, planets, etc. Planetesimal discs can be characterized locally by four parameters: surface density, semimajor axis, planetesimal size and planetesimal radial velocity dispersion. Any planetesimal disc must have survive...

A parallel version of the modified billiard algorithm has been implemented to solve larger instances of the static packing problem i.e., given a number of discs, compute the maximum radius such that the discs fit within the unit square without overlapping [1]. An existing serial algorithm available at [2] was taken as a basis and modified towards the main objective of this project, high perform...

If A is an nxn complex matrix and λ is an eigenvalue of A with geometric multiplicity k, then λ is in at least k of the Geršgorin discs Di of A. Let k, r, t be positive integers with k ≤ r ≤ t . Then there is a t x t complex matrix A and an eigenvalue λ of A such that λ has geometric multiplicity k and algebraic multiplicity t, and λ is in precisely r Geršgorin Discs of A. Some examples and rel...

Context. Around 16% of the solar-like stars in our neighbourhood show IR-excesses due to dusty debris discs and a fraction of them are known to host planets. Determining whether these stars follow any special trend in their properties is important to understand debris disc and planet formation. Aims. We aim to determine in a homogeneous way the metallicity of a sample of stars with known debris...

Aspects of the use of filter paper discs in collecting tear samples for lysozyme tests were studied by serial weighings of bijoux bottles and tear-moistened discs. Blotted discs carried from 1.9 to 3.6 mg tears, but for practical purposes no deposit was left in the bottle. Unblotted discs carried a greater quantity of tear fluid, but the majority deposited a proportion of this in the bottle, an...

Intervertebral discs of the cervical-thoracic region of the spine of BDL mice which are homozygous for the ky gene mutation undergo degeneration. Discs from these mice have a normal collagen content and undergo normal collagen cross linking prior to the appearance of degenerative changes. The major reducible collagen cross-link formed in discs of these mice and in normal CBA strain mice is hydr...

There have been numerous researchers that have investigated the properties of human intervertebral discs. However, there has been no attempt to characterize the effects of loading rate on the stiffness of human intervertebral discs. The purpose of this study was to develop the compressive stiffness properties of individual lumber intervertebral discs when subjected to various dynamic compressiv...