BACKGROUND AND AIM Pathologists are under constant pressure for instant and reliable diagnosis. The manual procedures employed in private laboratories and institutional setup for histoprocessing and staining are laborious and intense. Thus, this study aims to evaluate and compare the microwave tissue processing and staining with the conventional methods which are in vogue. MATERIALS AND METHO...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to express my great gratitude to my thesis advisor, Professor Jianping Yao, for providing me with excellent research environment, valuable directions and delicate guidance throughout this research work. His meticulous scholarship impresses me. His great passion towards scientific research work inspires me to work hard. His rich knowledge has made him ...

In recent years, the rapid growth of chilled and frozen food market is due to rapid reheating instruments such as domestic or commercial microwave oven as well as conventional ovens. The goal of these products manufacturers is to cook the products to a temperature that would ensure the reduction of pathogenic bacteria to a safe level. It is a common way to heat the chilled foods in a microwave ...

Microwave energy has been in use for variety of applications for over 50 years. These applications include communication, food processing, wood drying, rubber vulcanization, medical therapy, polymers, etc. In the last two decades microwave heating has been also applied very effectively and efficiently to heat and sinter ceramic materials. Microwave heating is recognized for its various advantag...

We describe recent progress in integrated microwave photonics in wideband signal processing applications with a focus on the key signal processing building blocks, the realization of monolithic integration, and cascaded photonic signal processing for analog radio frequency (RF) photonic links. New developments in integration-based microwave photonic techniques, that have high potentialities to ...

The field of optics-microwave interactions can generally be defined as the study of highspeed photonic devices operating at microwave, millimeterwave or even THz frequencies and their use in microwave or photonic systems. In this multidisciplinary field at the interface between microwave techniques, ultrafast electronics and photonic technologies, typical investigations include, for example, hi...

Microalgae are regarded as a promising source of lipids for bio-diesel production and bio-products. The current paper investigates the processing of microalgal slurries under controlled microwave irradiation. Microwave power was applied to reach temperatures of 80, 100, 120 and 140 °C at a constant residence time of 12 min. Microwave irradiation led to disruption of the algal cell walls which f...

Background: Regarding to the considerable application of microwave in everyday life, their effects on biological tissues are still controversial.This study determines the effect of microwave on morphometric changes in rabbit prostate. Materials and Methods: 18 New Zealand male rabbits were divided into three groups (control, 3 w and 6 w),the animals in the control group were not exposed to micr...

Ketenimines and azadienes are transient intermediates in organic chemistry especially in elimination-addition processes and in the formation of heterocyclic systems. These compounds play a considerable role as intermediates in the synthesis of heterocyclic ring systems. In this present research synthesis of novel ketenimines and azadienes via multicomponent reactions (MCRs...

Solar energy is only renewable energy source that does not depend on earth's resources. Current industrial manufacturing of solar cells use manufacturing steps that have many sustainable issues. So it becomes very important to promote technologies that are more sustainable than current state of the art. This paper will look into prospects of microwave heating for silicon solar cell fabrication ...