The application of electromagnetic methods in the radar and micro-wave frequency band allows the fluid content of soils to be estimated; the heuristic or physically-based models permit to relate the observed electrical permittivity of the soils with the porosity and fluid saturation. The role of the effect of the free water and bound water in the overall electromagnetic behaviour of soils is di...

Proteoglycans are molecules that are degraded and released from the articular cartilage into the synovial fluid early in an arthritic process. Such released proteoglycans were quantified by an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The proteoglycan content in synovial fluid from patients with various knee joint arthritides was constant in two samples withdrawn five days apart. To determine ...

THis paper presents the results of a study of the chemical composition of subretinal fluid from cases of retinal detachment, with particular reference to the protein and ascorbic acid content of the fluid. Many workers have studied the chemical composition of subretinal fluid obtained from patients undergoing surgery for retinal detachment. It is generally agreed that the subretinal fluid conta...

________________________________________ Introduction __--------_--___-_____-_-______________ Acknowledgments_________________________________ Scope --_____-____---___-_--___-________________-__ Nomenclature. _____________________________________ Static fluid occurrence_____________________________ Terminology.__________________________________ Structural stage ____________________________ Adso...

We consider a fluid queue driven by a discouraged arrivals queue and obtain explicit expressions for the stationary distribution function of the buffer content in terms of confluent hypergeometric functions. We compare it with a fluid queue driven by an infinite server queue. Numerical results are presented to compare the behaviour of the buffer content distributions for both these models. 1. I...

SIGNIFICANCE Measured tear concentration of nerve growth factor is correlated with postoperative corneal reinnervation among patients who undergo keratoplasty. This may be a future therapeutic target for post-keratoplasty corneal nerve regeneration. PURPOSE To determine the relationship between changes in the content of nerve growth factor (NGF) in tear fluid and corneal subepithelial nerve r...