This paper presents a noncontacting thermoelectric method that can be used to characterize the prevailing residual stress in shot-peened specimens. This novel method is based on magnetic detection of local thermoelectric currents in the compressed near-surface layer of metals when a temperature gradient is established throughout the specimen. Besides the primary residual stress effect, the ther...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the pattern of vancomycin administration in the hematology-oncology ward of Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz, Iran. Study criteria were developed to assess the several parameters involved in vancomycin therapy. These parameters include the appropriateness of drug usage, dosage, duration of therapy, monitoring for toxicity and serum concentration monitoring. ...

An efficient full-field method of computing the local and homogenized macroscopic responses of elasto-plastic polycrystalline microstructures based on the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm is presented. This approach takes realistic microstructure images as the input and estimates the mechanical response/properties of polycrystal microstructures under periodic boundary conditions without r...

Cation-induced folding into quadruplex structures for three model human telomeric oligonucleotides, d[AGGG(TTAGGG)(3)], d[TTGGG(TTAGGG)(3)A] and d[TTGGG(TTAGGG)(3)], was characterized by equilibrium titrations with KCl and NaCl and by multiwavelength stopped flow kinetics. Cation binding was cooperative with Hill coefficients of 1.5-2.2 in K(+) and 2.4-2.9 in Na(+) with half-saturation concentr...

OBJECTIVE To determine if prodrug conversion of fluorocytosine to fluorouracil by an engineered herpes virus, OncoVEX(GALV/CD), enhances oncolytic therapy of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. DESIGN We assessed the ability of OncoVEX(GALV/CD) and OncoVEX(GFP) to infect, replicate within, and lyse 4 head and neck squamous cell carcinoma lines in vitro. The effects of adding fluorocytosine...