Microscopic active droplets are able to swim autonomously in viscous flows. This puzzling feature stems from solute exchanges with the surrounding fluid via surface reactions or their spontaneous solubilization and interfacial flows resulting these solutes’ gradients. Contrary asymmetric colloids, isotropic spontaneously by exploiting nonlinear coupling of transport self-generated Marangoni flo...

Faces of lesion nematodes Pratylenchus teres (populations RTB and JK) and P. zeae or the bacterivore Distolabrellus veechi were observed on frozen specimens with low-temperature scanning electron microscopy and as chemically fixed, critical-point dried specimens with conventional scanning electron microscopy. Amphidial secretions were preserved in chemically fixed but not cryofixed lesion nemat...

Chemically modifying vegetable oils to produce an alternative to petroleum-based materials is one of the most important emerging industrial research areas today because of the adverse effects of petroleum products on the environment and the shortage of petroleum resources. Biolubricants, bioplasticizers, non-isocyanate polyurethanes, biofuel, coating materials, biocomposites, and other value-ad...

or they growth arrest at subconfluence in serum-deficient medium (17,20).The quiescentcellscanthenbe stimulated to undergo a round of DNA synthesis by adding serum (26, 29) or purified mitogens including EGF3(3, 11, 23), FGF (10), or the tumor promoter, TPA (21, 25). DNA virus transformed cells, on the other hand, do not growth arrest in G, under usual monolayer culture conditions. Theyeither b...

Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) are Arctic-adapted ruminants native to the Arctic regions of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland. Little is known about the serum biochemistry and serum cortisol of this species, or the effects of chemical immobilization on serum biochemical parameters. This study aimed to describe blood chemistry parameters and cortisol levels in hunted, tame, and chemically immobilized m...

or they growth arrest at subconfluence in serum-deficient medium (17,20).The quiescentcellscanthenbe stimulated to undergo a round of DNA synthesis by adding serum (26, 29) or purified mitogens including EGF3(3, 11, 23), FGF (10), or the tumor promoter, TPA (21, 25). DNA virus transformed cells, on the other hand, do not growth arrest in G, under usual monolayer culture conditions. Theyeither b...

We describe a method for generating a variety of chemically diverse, broadly responsive, low power vapor sensors. A key to our ability to fabricate chemically diverse sensing elements is the preparation of processable, air stable films of electrically conducting organic polym~rs. An array of such sensing elements produces a chemically reversible, diagnostic pattern of electrical resistance chan...

Apple pomace which is the main waste of fruit juice industry was utilized to extract pectins in an environmentally friendly way, which was then compared with chemically-extracted pectins. The water-based extraction with combined physical and enzymatic treatments produced pectins with 693.2 mg g(-1) galacturonic acid and 4.6% yield, which were less than those of chemically-extracted pectins. Che...