Long-term (1981-2011) satellite climate data records of clouds and aerosols are used to investigate the aerosol-cloud interaction of marine water cloud from a climatology perspective. Our focus is on identifying the regimes and regions where the aerosol indirect effects (AIEs) are evident in long-term averages over the global oceans through analyzing the correlation features between aerosol loa...

The precise placement of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) in device configurations has been accomplished by AC dielectrophoresis using a biomimetic surfactant, dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (i.e. AOT) dispersed SWNTs. To better serve the utilization of SWNTs/AOT for device fabrication, the dispersion of SWNTs in AOT aqueous solutions was investigated at different micellar concentrations a...

The toxic and genotoxic effects of silver nanoparticles were studied on injected mice (BALB/c line) in vivo. A water solution of silver nanoparticles (SNP) with particle sizes of 9±6 nm was obtained by means of the original method of biochemical synthesis. The effect of the SNP solution was compared to those of AOT (anionic surfactant used as SNP stabilizer) and silver nitrate (i.e. Ag+ ions) i...

Adenomatoid odontogenic tumor (AOT) is an uncommon benign odontogenic lesion that affects young patients, with female predominance, mainly in second decade, showing a radiolucent unilocular image associated with an unerupted tooth, usually a canine. In spite of previous and confusing denominations, such as adenoameloblastoma or adenomatoid ameloblastic tumor, AOT is a benign tumor with a very l...

background: solid ameloblastoma (sab) is an invasive tumor which infiltrates adjacent normal tissues. adenomatoid odontogenic tumor is a noninvasive tumor and never infiltrates surrounding normal tissues. the purpose of this study was to determine the biological behavior of these two epithelial odontogenic neoplasm by detecting ki-67 and bcl-2, which are mitotic and anti apoptotic markers respe...

In this study, we investigate the aerosol optical properties, namely aerosol extinction optical thickness (AOT), Angström parameter and size distribution over the Eastern Mediterranean Basin, using spectral measurements from the recently established FORTH (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas) AERONET station in Crete, for the two-year period 2003–2004. The location of the FORTH-AERONE...

The aim of the present study is to validate AOT (aerosol optical thickness) and Ångström exponent (α), obtained from MODIS (MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) Aqua and Terra calibrated level 1 data (1 km horizontal resolution at ground) with the SAER (Satellite AErosol Retrieval) algorithm and with MODIS Collection 5 (c005) standard product retrievals (10 km horizontal resolution), ...

BACKGROUND Acute opioid tolerance (AOT) and opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH) are undesirable effects of opioids that have been reported in both animals and humans. However, the development of AOT and OIH in cases of potent, short-acting μ-opioid receptor agonist remifentanil administration remains controversial. It has been suggested that the emergence of AOT and OIH by remifentanil could be d...

The warming trend of the past decade may be related to increasing amounts of downward solar radiation reaching the Earth’s surface. Recent decreases in tropospheric aerosols may also have contributed via both direct and indirect aerosol effects. The green line (above) reveals a long-term decreasing tendency in the tropospheric aerosol optical thickness (AOT) and the red line shows the overall b...

A novel honeycomb-patterned fluorescent film was fabricated by self-assembly of polystyrene (PS)/poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)/meso-tetra (N-methy-4-pyridyl) porphinetetratosylate (TMPyP) blend system, at the assistance of diisooctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (AOT). Ordered microporous PS/PEG/TMPyP/AOT blend films were prepared by the breath figure method. The condensed water droplets acted as the sa...