The ultrastructural changes induced in mouse interfollicular epidermis (IFE) up to 4 weeks after a single application of 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) are described. The increase in the thickness, number of nucleated cell layers, and mitotic index of IFE reverts to control levels 120 hr after treatment. The ultrastructural changes induced by TPA in the epidermal cells are consider...

Recently, turbidimetric immunoassays for detecting and quantifying and free light chains (FLC) have become available and are promoted as being more sensitive than immunofixation electrophoresis (IFE) in detecting FLC monoclonal proteins. In this study, we assessed the ability of these turbidimetric assays to detect serum monoclonal proteins involving both free and heavy-chain-bound and light ch...

The hair follicles (HFs) and the interfollicular epidermis (IFE) of intact mature skin are maintained by distinct stem cell populations. Upon wounding, however, emigration of HF keratinocytes to the IFE plays a role in acute stages of healing. In addition to this repair function, rapidly cycling cells of the upper HF have been observed transiting to the IFE in neonatal skin. Here we report that...

introduction: cleaner productions in textile industry is achieved by reducing water and chemicals’ consumption, saving energy, reducing production of air pollution and solid wastes, reducing toxicity and noise pollution through many solutions. the purpose of the present research was to apply strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (swot) and quality systems planning matrix (qspm) techniqu...

A parallel, three-dimensional electrostatic PIC code is developed for largescale electric propulsion simulations using parallel supercomputers. Two algorithms are implemented in the code, a standard finite-difference (FD) PIC and a newly developed immersed-finite-element (IFE) PIC. The IFE-PIC is designed to handle complex boundary conditions accurately while maintaining the computational speed...

Urine protein electrophoresis (UPE) is often considered to have limited usefulness in evaluating proteinuria that is not associated with gammopathies. Unusual protein bands that are detected by UPE are commonly characterized by immunofixation electrophoresis (IFE). In this paper, electrophoretic gel patterns are shown to illustrate the greater sensitivity of IFE, compared to UPE. However, UPE r...

The critical technical issues, evaluation and comparison of two inertial fusion energy (IFE) r~actor design concepts developed in the Prometheus studies are presented. The objectives of this study were (1) to identify and characterize the critical issues and the R&D required to resolve them, and (2) to establish a sound basis for future IFE technical and programmatic decisions by evaluating and...

We present higher degree immersed finite element (IFE) spaces that can be used to solve two dimensional second order elliptic interface problems without requiring the mesh to be aligned with the material interfaces. The interpolation errors in the proposed piecewise p degree spaces yield optimal O(hp+1) and O(h) convergence rates in the L2 and broken H1 norms, respectively, under mesh refinemen...