PURPOSE To develop a novel method for constructing a sheet of human corneal endothelial cells (HCECs) and examine the properties of the HCEC sheet. METHODS HCECs were cultured on a cell culture insert for a week; ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid was applied from the bottom of the cell culture insert to attenuate the attachment of HCECs. The sheet of HCECs was constructed by bluntly detaching ...

the present study deals with the analysis of the effects of radiative heat transfer of micropolar fluid flow over a porous and stretching sheet in the presence of magnetic field. the dynamic viscosity and thermal conductivity coefficient have formulated by temperature-dependent relations to obtain more exact results. the flow is supposed two-dimensional, incompressible, steady and laminar and t...

Title of Dissertation: Multiplicative Data Perturbation for Privacy Preserving Data Mining Kun Liu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Hillol Kargupta Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Recent interest in the collection and monitoring of data using data mining technology for the purpose of security and business-related application...

Title of Dissertation: Privacy Preserving Distributed Data Mining based on Multi-objective Optimization and Algorithmic Game Theory Kamalika Das, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Thesis directed by: Dr. Hillol Kargupta Professor Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Use of technology for data collection and analysis has seen an unprecedented growth in the last couple of decades. I...

Left ventricular (LV) epicardial pacing acutely reduces wall thickening at the pacing site. Because LV epicardial pacing also reduces transverse shear deformation, which is related to myocardial sheet shear, we hypothesized that impaired end-systolic wall thickening at the pacing site is due to reduction in myocardial sheet shear deformation, resulting in a reduced contribution of sheet shear t...

OBJECTIVE To measure the effect of providing a detailed description of coronary angiography risks on obtaining informed consent from Saudi Arabian patients. METHODS This randomized controlled trial was conducted at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from August 2006 to June 2007. Patients were randomized to either an information sheet containing brief information on procedu...

Consider a three-dimensional vortex sheet in inviscid, incompressible flow which is irrotational away from the sheet. We derive an equation for the evolution of a vortex sheet in Lagrangian coordinates, i.e. an equation that is restricted to the sheet itself and is analogous to the Birkhoff-Rott equation for a two-dimensional (planar) sheet. This general equation is specialized to sheets with a...