Throughput enhancement is an important issue for processing large volume of sample, especially for microfilters. As a simple and straightforward method, expansion of channel width can handle larger volume without flow velocity increase. The non-uniform velocity distribution by parabolic profile, however, causes different fluidic force to captured cells in microfilters depending on the position ...

BACKGROUND In critically ill children, in-line microfilters may reduce the incidence of the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), the overall complication and organ dysfunction rate. No data on the use of in-line microfilters exist in critically ill adults. METHODS In this prospective, randomized, controlled open-label study, we evaluated the influence of in-line microfilters on sys...

R. B. BULEY, AND JEAN LUMLEY Department of Anaesthetics, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Ducane Road, London Many factors have been incriminated in the aetiology of the post-traumatic pulmonary insufficiency syndrome. One factor, which can possibly be avoided, is the deposition in pulmonary capillaries of cellular debris of microemboli following massive transfusion. Swank (1961) and McNamara...

The detection and separation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are crucial in early cancer diagnosis and cancer prognosis. Filtration through a thin film is one of the size and deformability based separation methods, which can isolate rare CTCs from the peripheral blood of cancer patients regardless of their heterogeneity. In this paper, volume of fluid (VOF) multiphase flow models are employed...

(a) Write down the probability distribution of x. Solution: p(x = 0|μ) = 1− μ, so p(x|μ) = μx(1− μ)1−x, this is known as the Bernoulli distribution. (b) Show that this is a proper probability distribution, i.e. the probability sum up to 1. What is the expectation and variance of this distribution? Solution: ∑ x∈{0,1} p(x|μ) = p(x = 0|μ) + p(x = 1|μ) = 1− μ+ μ = 1 E(x) = ∑ x∈{0,1} xp(x|μ) = 0× p...

The topologically close-packed (TCP) μ phase is usually known as an undesirable precipitation in highly alloyed Ni-base superalloys and steels. However, the ultrastrong with micron/nano-scale distribution plays a key role driving emergence of self-sharpening our recently developed WMoFeNi high-entropy alloy (HEA). Herein, detailed study carried out to understand substructure atomic occupation μ...

selected genotypes of sugar beet are often maintained by conventional propagation, but much faster rates of multiplication can be now obtained through micropropagation. on the other hand, plant micropropagation using bioreactors can decrease the cost of production and makes it an economical method. in this research, the possibility of using bioreactor and optimization of the tissue culture proc...