Liquid paraffin as a coolant fluid can be  applied in electronic devices as a result to its suitable capabilities such as electrical insulating, high heat capacity, chemical and thermal stability, and high boiling point. However, the poor thermal conductivity of paraffin has been confined its thermal cooling application. Addition of high conductor nanoparticles to paraffin can fix this drawback...

BACKGROUND Kawasaki disease (KD) is known to be associated with T help (Th) 2 reaction and subsequently allergic diseases. Interleukin-31 (IL-31) has also been reported to be involved in Th2 mediated diseases such as allergic diseases. However, the role of IL-31 in KD has not been previously reported. The aim of this study is to investigate whether IL-31 is associated with KD and its clinical o...

The platelets from 74 patients with acute myocardial infarction or with unstable angina showed decreased prostaglandin E1/I2 receptor activity when compared with that of 56 normal volunteers by using [3H]prostaglandin E1 as a probe. In normals, Scatchard analyses showed the presence of one high-affinity-low-capacity (Kd1 = 9.0 +/- 1.2 nM [mean +/- SD]; n1 = 120 +/- 30 sites/cell) and one low-af...

There is a global debate and concern about the use of glyphosate (Gly) as an herbicide. New toxicological studies will determine its use in the future under new strict conditions or its replacement by alternative synthetic or natural herbicides. In this context, we designed biomimetic polymer sensing layers for the selective molecular recognition of Gly. Towards this end, complementary surface ...

 This work presents a model for calculating the effective ‎thermal conductivity of nanofluids. The proposed model ‎includes the effects of nanoparticles and thermal conductivity ‎base fluid.We will focus on experimental of the volume ‎concentration parameter and temperature on thermal ‎conductivity, nano-fluid combination and Multi-Walled ‎Carbon nanotubes-Oxide / Copper-paid deionized Water. T...

Equilibrium dialysis and Scatchard plots were used to establish that human and rabbit paraoxonases both have two calcium binding sites. Independent-site and stepwise constant analyses were used to calculate a higher affinity site (Kd1) of 3.6 +/- 0.9 x 10(-7) M for human A paraoxonase, and 1.4 +/- 0.5 x 10(-8) M for rabbit paraoxonase, and a lower affinity site (Kd2) of 6.6 +/- 1.2 x 10(-6) M f...

A semi-analytical model (CDOM-KD2) based on the light vertical attenuation coefficient (Kd(?)) has been developed for estimating absorption by colored dissolved organic matter, acdom(443), from ocean color remote sensing at global scale. The performance of this new inversion together with that former models Shanmugam (2011) (S2011), Chen et al. (2017) (C2017) and Aurin (2018) (A2018) was evalua...

japan, known as a pro-choice country in terms of abortion, is currently facing the increase of “selective abortions” thanks to new prenatal screening. efforts to restrict proliferation of new technology has not been successful and it is likely that japan will turn pro-life by strictly enforcing the maternity protection act (mpa), which prohibits abortions due to “fetal cause”.

Let Q(J!k) be an imaginary quadratic "eld with discriminant !k and class number h, with kO3, 4, or 8. Let p be a prime such that (~k p )"1. There are integers C, D, unique up to sign, such that 4ph"C2#kD2, p PC. Stickelberger gave a congruence for C modulo p which extends congruences of Gauss, Jacobi, and Eisenstein. Stickelberger also gave a simultaneous congruence for C modulo k, but only for...

We show that the first betti number b1 (0) = d im H 1(0, !R) of a compact Riemannian orbifold 0 with Ricci curvature Ric(O ) ~ -(n 1)k and d iameter diam(O) :5 D is bounded above by a constant r (n, kD2 ) ~ 0 , depending only on dimension , curvature and diameter. In the case when t he orbi fold has nonnegative Ricci curvature, we show that the b1 (0) is bounded above by the dimension dim 0 , a...