Spread tumors in liver are not suitable to be treated with local treatments, such as conventional surgery or radiofrequency ablation, thus entailing a poor prognosis. Electroporation-based therapies imply the delivery of pulsed high electric fields and currently are performed in a local fashion using needle or plate electrodes. Here, however, it is proposed a novel electroporation paradigm in w...

Mucormycosis is an acute, often fatal intection caused by saprophytic fungi, of the order Mucorales. It occurs in debilitated patients who are compromised immunologically due to uncontrolled diabetes lymphoma, corticosteroid treatment and radiotherapy (Jain et al., 1978). Only 13 cases were reported up to 1963 (Pilsbury and Fischer, 1977). The fungus appears in tissues as hyphae which are irreg...

The acute childhood diseases haematogenous staphylococcal osteomyelitis and septic arthritis were studied concurrently using avian models which closely resemble the human diseases. Ultrastructural studies during the initial stages of bone and joint infection showed that adherence of bacteria to cartilage, bacterial proliferation, cartilage destruction and subsequent bacterial spread along the v...

A cusp gun, designed to generate an axis encircling beam with low velocity spread for high harmonic, high power (70 kV, 3.5 A) operation in gyrotrons and peniotrons, has been successfully fabricated and hot tested at reduced voltage, in a beam tester designed to measure beam perveance, size, thickness, velocity ratio (beam alpha), and later, beam ripple and velocity spread. The correct beam per...

geometrically nonlinear governing equations for a plate with linear viscoelastic material are derived. the material model is of boltzmann superposi¬tion principle type. a third-order displacement field is used to model the shear deformation effects. for the solution of the nonlinear governing equations the dynamic relaxation (dr) iterative method together with the finite difference discretizati...

With the spread of pollinosis caused by sugi (Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica) pollen, use pollen-free somatic seedlings is expected in Japan. However, there a lack knowledge on relationship between abilities during embryogenesis, initial vitro growth traits, and subsequent seedlings. In present study, we provide first basic information embryo maturation efficiency, germination, plantlet c...

In this paper, we study the performance of a testing apparatus that could be used for evaluating the effectiveness of gaseous suppressants and solid fuel retardants under opposed flame spread conditions. A narrow channel, 3 mm in height, 110 mm in width and 375 mm in length, constitutes the most important component of this apparatus. To establish the flow and flame spread parameters in this app...

Characterizing spatio-temporal patterns among epidemics in which the mechanism of spread is uncertain is important for generating disease spread hypotheses, which may in turn inform disease control and prevention strategies. Using a dataset representing three phases of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 outbreaks in village poultry in Romania, 2005-2006, spatiotemporal patterns were charact...

In this paper, load-carrying capacity in steel shear wall (SSW) was estimated using artificial neural networks (ANNs). The SSW parameters including load-carrying capacity (as ANN’s target), plate thickness, thickness of stiffener, diagonal stiffener distance, horizontal stiffener distance and gravity load (as ANN’s inputs) are used in this paper to train the ANNs. 144 samples data of each of th...