Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are a completely new carbon material that are expected to become typical raw material for nanotechnology, applied to such broad fields as composite materials, electronic devices, drug delivery nanocapsules, etc. (Abrahamson & Nair, 2008; Abrikosov et al., 2005; Ahmad et al., 2006; Ajayan & Zhou, 2001; Avouris, 2002; Back & Shim, 2006; Bordjiba et al., 2008; Danilov et al....

External electric field, which is applied to cells, can, under suitable field parameters, induce local distortions and structural rearrangements of lipid molecules in the cell membrane. Depending on the field parameters, the membrane hence becomes either transiently or permanently permeable even after the field has ceased, allowing molecules that are otherwise deprived of transport mechanisms t...

the purpose of this study is finding the sensitivity of central bank independence measurements on its impact on inflation in iran. to this aim different measurements of the central bank independence were calculated using the indices of grilli et al. (1991), cukierman et al. (1992), mathew (2006) and dumiter (2009) for the period 1961-2012 . although results of correlation between cbi index and ...

migrating in different directions with respect to the array, thus causing the two-dimensional and continuous fractionation of the mixture (Huang et al. 2004; Inglis et al. 2006). Microfluidic DLD devices have been successfully applied to the fractionation of different mixtures, and in particular for cell sorting and the separation of biological material (Xuan and Lee 2013; Davis et al. 2006; Li...

In this issue, Parazzini and colleagues (Parazzini et al., 2014), present computational models of brain current flow using transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) designed for cerebellum stimulation. Using MRI-derived models of three subjects, they predict that a montage with one 5 ! 9 cm sponge electrode placed roughly over the cerebellum area and an extra-cephalic electrode on the righ...

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Sexual differentiation of the malaria parasite is a pre-requisite for transmission from humans to the mosquito vector and has emerged as a target for intervention in eradication efforts. In this issue of Cell, a study from Marti, Clardy, and colleagues (Brancucci et al., 2017) describes a host-derived lipid lysophosphatidylcholine (LysoPC) that regulates sexual commitment.