Endeavoring to push the boundaries of microfabrication with shrinkable polymers, we have developed a sequential shrink photolithography process. We demonstrate the utility of this approach by rapidly fabricating plastic microlens arrays. First, we create a mask out of the children's toy Shrinky Dinks by simply printing dots using a standard desktop printer. Upon retraction of this pre-stressed ...

A polymer microfluidic device has been fabricated using rapid prototyping techniques. The device was built to allow the formation and subsequent investigation of artificial bilayer lipid membranes (BLMs). A simple dry film photoresist stamp was used to hot emboss microfluidic channels into PMMA films. Laser micromachining was employed to form an aperture through the PMMA channels, across which ...

Tactile graphics containing only dots have long been widely used. However, tactile may be mistaken for braille. This study aimed to investigate the influence of distance between dot pattern and braille in by emboss printing method on ease identification. Test pieces with varied were created using EDEL software, which is a de facto standard Japan, printed ESA721 printer (JTR Co.). Sighted subjec...

The present study investigated comparatively the impact of two types of input enhancement (i.e. textual vs. compound enhancement) on developing grammar ability in Iranian EFL setting. Sixty-five female secondary high school students were selected as a homogenous sample out of about a 100-member population based on Nelson language proficiency test. Then, their grammar ability was measured based ...

FASTQ has emerged as a common file format for sharing sequencing read data combining both the sequence and an associated per base quality score, despite lacking any formal definition to date, and existing in at least three incompatible variants. This article defines the FASTQ format, covering the original Sanger standard, the Solexa/Illumina variants and conversion between them, based on public...

UNLABELLED Large- and medium-scale computational molecular biology projects require accurate bioinformatics software and numerous heterogeneous biological databanks, which are distributed around the world. BioMAJ provides a flexible, robust, fully automated environment for managing such massive amounts of data. The JAVA application enables automation of the data update cycle process and supervi...

Kabupaten Sidoarjo merupakan daerah UMKM yang terkenal dengan produk olahan kulit. Daerah kulit berada di kecamatan Candi. Olahan bahan dasar bisa dijadikan dalam bentuk seperti jaket kulit, sepatu, tas, dompet, sandal, sabuk, dan lain-lain. Dampak pandemi COVID-19 selama dua tahun kebijakan pembatasan masyarakat atau disebut PPKM membuat mengalami kesulitan pemasaran. Dengan permasalahan terse...