Background: Macrophage polarization plays a critical role in determining the inflammatory states. Hepcidin is a key negative regulator of iron homeostasis and functions. Although hepcidin has been shown to affect ferroportin expression in macrophages, whether it affects macrophage polarization is still largely unknown. Objective: To address whether hepcidin ind...

We present a simple configuration incorporating a single polarization-sensitive phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LC-SLM) to facilitate polarization-insensitive spatial light modulation. The polarization-insensitive configuration is formed by a polarization beam splitter (PBS), a polarization-sensitive phase-only LC-SLM, a half-wave plate (HWP), and a mirror in a loop structure...

We report here BIMA array observations of linear polarization in Sagittarius A*, the compact radio source in the Galactic Center. These observations had a resolution of 20 × 5 oriented North-South. We do not detect linear or circular polarization at a level of 1.8% (1-σ) at 112 GHz. This puts a new constraint on models that show a sharp change in linear polarization fraction at 100 GHz. Subject...

Context. We investigate non-Zeeman circular polarization and linear polarization levels of up to 1% of 12CO spectral line emission detected in a shocked molecular clump around the supernova remnant (SNR) IC 443, with the goal of understanding the magnetic field structure in this source. Aims. We examine our polarization results to confirm that the circular polarization signal in CO lines is cau...

in this article, the linear array (with 20 elements in the horizontal orientation) of microstrip antenna is examined with horizontal polarization. the set includes three microstrip substrates. there is a power network in two lower substrates and microstrip patches in the upper substrate. excitation of patches has been done as coupled through the power network in two lower substrates. using the ...

vanillin is an interesting corrosion inhibitor because of its safe use and high solubility inwater. the effect of vanillin on the corrosion inhibition of carbon steel in 1.0 mhydrochloric acid solution has been studied using potentiodynamic polarization,electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (eis) and electrochemical noise (en) techniques.the effect of temperature on the rate of corrosion in th...

plasma electrolytic oxidation (peo) was performed on a 1010 aluminum alloy. to achieve thenanocomposite structure, si3n4 nanoparticles were added into the electrolyte. in an alkaline aqueoussuspension (silicate-based), the effect of adding niso4 on the applied voltage, microstructure,composition, wear, and corrosion resistance of peo coatings was investigated using scanningelectron microscopy (...