Silicone based oil is heated in the boiler of the diffusion pump and the vaporized oil rises in the central tower and streams out of directional flutes directed downward in the pump throat. This allows air molecules to dissolve in the gaseous oil (gas dissolved in gas). As the oil-air mixture cools (due to water cooling coils wrapped around the pump throat) the oil condenses and returns to liqu...

Selenite (SeL) or selenomethionine (SeM) are the most common selenium (Se) compounds taken as dietary antioxidants to reduce oxidative stress. Because the public may frequently supplement Se compounds at high doses, the possible pro-oxidant effect of Se becomes a concern. SeL and SeM have entirely different pharmacokinetic effects based on dose-related cytotoxicity. Our laboratory has shown pre...

DNA, the essential part of the life is making way in to new vaccine technology. Plasmid vectors from the bacteria have revolutionized the world of vaccine design by its new technology – DNA vaccines. Small portion of the nucleotides from the pathogen held under the control of promoter in a plasmid vector can be used as a vaccine. DNA vaccines alleviate the odds of the other vaccines by having g...

Location getLocation(int timeout)Description: Retrieves a Location with the constraints given by the Crite-ria associated with this class. If no result could be retrieved,a LocationException is thrown. If the location can't be deter-mined within the timeout period specified in the parameter,the method shall throw a LocationException. If the provider is temporarily unavailabl...

We have identified and analyzed two DNA regions responsible for stable maintenance of a plasmid in the genus Sphingomonas and Escherichia coli. A 37 bp fragment, upstream of the repA gene, is required for stable maintenance of the low-copy-number small plasmid pYAN-2 (4,687 bp) from Sphingobium yanoikuyae. It does not encode any significant protein sequence and has one direct repeat for possibl...

• "While the viscosity of blood lias been studied extensively (Copley, Stainsby, and Bayliss-), only a few studies have involved the use of a rotational viscometer. These included Brundage, Wells and Merril, and Wells et al.,-~ the latter applying a Brookfield cone plate viscometer. Neither study was carried out at rates of shear below 10 seer. The present author considered that the region belo...

Bioinspired design has been central in the development of hierarchical nanocomposites. Particularly, the nacre-mimetic brick-and-mortar structure has shown excellent mechanical properties, as well as gas-barrier properties and optical transparency. Along with these intrinsic properties, the layered structure has also been utilized in sensing devices. Here we extend the multifunctionality of nac...