Stretchable electronics offer soft, biocompatible mechanical properties; these same properties make them susceptible to device failure associated with physical impact. This paper studies designs for stretchable electronics that resist failure from impacts due to incorporation of a viscoelastic encapsulation layer. Results indicate that the impact resistance depends on the thickness and viscoela...

background: disulfiram is oral aldehyde dehydrogenase (aldh) inhibitor that has been used in the treatment of alcoholism. recent studies show that this drug has anticancer properties; however, its rapid degradation has limited its clinical application. encapsulation of disulfiram polymeric nanoparticles (nps) may improve its anticancer activities and protect rapid degradation of the drug. mater...

Although industrial and commercial uses of mercury have been curtailed in recent times, there is a demonstrated need for the development of reliable hazardous waste management techniques because of historic operations that have led to significant contamination and ongoing hazardous waste generation. This study was performed to evaluate whether the U.S. EPA could propose treatment and disposal a...

The potential utilization of encapsulation techniques in food, pharmaceutical and agricultural products preparation, presents a new alternative for complementary technologies such as targeting delivery vehicles and carriers for active food ingredients. Encapsulation could be accomplished by different techniques like: simple or complex coacervation, emulsification technique, phase separation, sp...

Reflection allows a program to examine and even modify itself, but its power can lead to violations of encapsulation and even security vulnerabilities. The Wyvern language leverages static types for encapsulation and provides security through an object capability model. We present a design for reflection in Wyvern which respects capability safety and type-based encapsulation. This is accomplish...

We previously demonstrated that the principal component of capsular material of Cryptococcus neoformans, glucuronoxylomannan (GXM), induces interleukin-10 (IL-10) secretion from human monocytes. Here we report that encapsulation of the yeast with GXM is able to down-regulate interleukin-12 (IL-12) production by monocytes that would normally occur in the absence of encapsulation. This phenomenon...

We present a novel method for conducting true single-cell encapsulation at very high efficiency for the manipulation of precious samples. Our unique strategy is based on the sequential capture and original encapsulation of single-cells into a series of hydrodynamic traps. We identified two distinct modes of encapsulation and we established their associated design rules. We improved the trapping...

This specification defines a new mobility option for allowing the mobile access gateway and the local mobility anchor to negotiate Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) encapsulation mode and exchange the downlink and uplink GRE keys that are used for marking the downlink and uplink traffic that belong to a specific mobility session. In addition, the same mobility option can be used to negotiate ...

In certain situations, transporting a packet from one Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) speaker to another (the BGP next hop) requires that the packet be encapsulated by the first BGP speaker and decapsulated by the second. To support these situations, there needs to be some agreement between the two BGP speakers with regard to the "encapsulation information", i.e., the format of the encapsulation ...

Current prototype-based languages suffer from an inherent conflict between inheritance and encapsulation. Whereas encapsulation tries to hide implementation details from the user, inheritance depends at least to some extent on exposing these implementation details. We propose a powerful calculus with dynamic object modification which solves this conflict. This calculus constitutes a formal foun...