BACKGROUND Spiral metacarpal fractures can result in shortening of the metacarpal shaft, which may lead to extension lag at the metacarpophalangeal joint and reduced grip strength. These fractures have been surgically treated to restore metacarpal length; however, there are complications associated with surgery, postoperative management and wound healing, which further threaten power recovery i...

In this work the effect of different bonding temperatures on the thermal stability of anisotropic conductive films (ACFs) was investigated. A thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) was utilized to determine the thermal decomposition temperature of ACF. The experimental results showed that the temperature for maximum decomposition rate of ACF, Tm decreased with increasing bonding temperature. The resu...

In this paper, FTIR spectroscopy using attenuated total reflection (ATR) and KBr pressed disk techniques has been used to characterize sorbed water and HDTMA+ in organo-clay. Sorbed water content decreases with the intercalation of HDTMA+. With the decrease of the sorbed water content, the position of the nu2 mode shifts to higher frequency dramatically while the stretching vibration shifts to ...

DNA cytosine-rich strands can fold into an intercalated motif (i-motif) structure. The i-motif is formed by mutually intercalated duplexes containing proton-mediated C-H(+)-C (cytosine-proton-cytosine) base pairs. Negatively charged ions of DNA i-motifs produced by electrospray mass spectrometry are therefore zwitterionic if the base pairing motif is preserved in the gas phase. Here we used IRM...

Formamide harmonic and anharmonic frequencies of fundamental vibrations in the gas phase and in several solvents were successfully estimated in the B3LYP Kohn-Sham complete basis set limit (KS CBS). CBS results were obtained by extrapolating a power function (two-parameter formula) to the results calculated with polarization-consistent basis sets. Anharmonic corrections using the second order p...

Structural maintenance of chromosomes (SMC) proteins function in chromosome condensation and several other aspects of DNA processing. They are large proteins characterized by an NH2-terminal nucleotide triphosphate (NTP)-binding domain, two long segments of coiled coil separated by a hinge, and a COOH-terminal domain. Here, we have visualized by EM the SMC protein from Bacillus subtilis (BsSMC)...

This paper presents a new class of interactive image editing operations designed to maintain consistency between multiple images of a physical 3D scene. The distinguishing feature of these operations is that edits to any one image propagate automatically to all other images as if the (unknown) 3D scene had itself been modified. The modified scene can then be viewed interactively from any other ...

Borazine (B3N3H6) is known as ‘inorganic benzene’ because of a planar B3N3 ring with equivalent B-N distance. The lone pair from N in the ring delocalize to the adjacent p-orbital of B which leads to a conjugated system. Even though metal-benzene complexes have been studied extensively as models for cationπ interactions and organometallic bonding, similar systems with borazine is relatively sca...

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is a mass surveillance system that captures the image of vehicles and recognizes their license number. ANPR can be assisted in the revealing of stolen vehicles. The recognition of stolen vehicles can be done in an efficient manner by using the ANPR systems located in the highways. ANPR systems are very useful to the law enforcement agencies as the need ...