(b) Fig. 1. Schematic of gating operation driven by centrifugal force. (a) shows top view of the rotating plate. The reservoir resides at R1 and the abruptly-expanding open is at R2. The reservoir and channel are filled by liquid sample. (b) shows a close-up view of the abruptly-expanding opening. Liquid pressure at the meniscus is Pm. DESIGN ANALYSES OF CAPILLARY BURST VALVES IN CENTRIFUGAL MI...

A couple decades ago fiscal federalism used to be a topic of marginal importance in most countries and in the economic literature. The world was broadly divided in federal states and unitary states and there were hardly any countries that planned to move from one to the other of these categories. In recent years, however, perhaps as a result of globalization and deepening democratization, combi...