Paracetamol (PCM) has two well-documented polymorphic forms at room temperature; monoclinic Form I is more stable than the other orthorhombic Form II. Form II exhibits improved tabletting properties compared to Form I due to low shearing forces; however, difficulties in its manufacture have limited its use in industrial manufacture. Previous studies have found that the introduction of a co-form...

The application of phase change material (PCM) for energy conservation purposes in the residential buildings was investigated in the present study. Two types of building in terms of materials as the lightweight building (LWB) and heavyweight building (HWB) located in a high cooling load demanding region of Iran were considered for the study. Different types of PCM from organic and inorganic cat...

OBJECTIVE Pericytes, located in close proximity to the underlying endothelium, form an integral component of the microvasculature. These cells are intimately involved in angiogenesis, which is of fundamental importance in many physiological and pathological processes. We evaluated the influence of pericyte-conditioned medium (PCM) on endothelial cell growth characteristics and modulation of end...

[1] Douglass and Knox [2005, hereinafter referred to as DK], present an analysis of the observed tropospheric cooling following the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption, and claim that these data imply a very low value for the climate sensitivity (equivalent to 0.6 C equilibrium warming for a CO2 doubling). We show here that their analysis is flawed and their results are incorrect. [2] We begin with a ve...

This article surveys the current state of phase-change memory (PCM) as a nonvolatile memory technology set to replace flash and DRAM in modern computerized systems. It has been researched and developed in the last decade, with researchers providing better architectural designs which address the technology’s main challenges—its limited write endurance, potential long latency, high energy writes,...

Phase change material (PCM)-based thermal energy storage (TES) systems are widely used for repeated intermittent heating and cooling applications. However, such typically face some challenges due to the low conductivity expensive encapsulation process of PCMs. The present study overcomes these by proposing a lightweight, low-cost, resistance TES system that realizes fluid-to-PCM additively manu...

For developing the receiver side digital signal processing techniques, necessary for the non-line of sight (NLOS) optical wireless scattering communication channel model. A linear time-invariant (LTI) Poisson channel modeling method, to model the NLOS optical wireless scattering communication, which was originally proposed for molecular communication is considered. In such a model the stochasti...

A method that combines quantum mechanics (QM), typically a solute, the effective fragment potential (EFP) discrete solvent model, and the polarizable continuum model is described. The EFP induced dipoles and polarizable continuum model (PCM) induced surface charges are determined in a self-consistent fashion. The gradients of these two energies with respect to molecular coordinate changes are d...

One major advantage of performance models over tests using real systems is the ability to simulate design alternatives by simply modifying or exchanging parts of such models. However, the evaluation of numerous design alternatives can be time consuming depending on the number of alternatives and the complexity of the model. To overcome this challenge, this work presents a scalable simulation se...