We applied morphometric analyses performed with a polarizing light microscope on total of 100 specimens Carinolithus superbus and C. magharensis to clarify the taxonomy based measurements height (TH), stem (SH), width (SW), proximal shield (PS), distal (DS) thickness (TDS). Statistical showed that three these parameters, namely DS, TDS SW, are diagnostic for taxa discrimination. New include sub...

The pluripotent stem cells, including embryonic stem cells (ESCs), are capable of self-renewal and differentiation into any cell type, thus making them the focus of many clinical application studies. However, the efficiency of ESCs differentiated into neurons needs to improve. In this study, we tried to increase efficiently to a neural fate in the presence of various transitional Chinese medici...

Modern agriculture requires alternative practices that improve crop growth without negatively affecting the environment, as resources such as water and arable land grow scarcer while the human population continues to increase. Grafting is a cultivation technique that allows the plant to be more efficient in its utilization of water and nutrients, while nanoscale material engineering provides th...

Geoff Potvin and Zahra Hazari STEM Transformation Institute, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33199, USA Department of Physics, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33199, USA Department of Teaching & Learning, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 33199, USA (Received 7 February 2015; publishe...

OBJECTIVE The present study is intended to add a new parameter that would be useful in orthodontic clinical evaluation, treatment planning, and determination of vertical dimension (at occlusion). MATERIALS AND METHODS Standardized videographic recording of 79 subjects during posed smile was captured. Each video was then cut into 30 photos using the free studio software. The widest commissure-...

We present the effect of surface attraction on the vapor-liquid equilibria of square well (SW) fluids in slit pores of varying slit width from quasi 3D to 2D regime using molecular simulation methodologies. Four to five distinct linear regimes are found for shift in the critical temperature with inverse slit width, which is more prominent at higher surface fluid interaction strength. On the oth...

BACKGROUND Peak internal knee abduction moment is a common surrogate variable associated with medial compartment knee loading. Stair descent has been shown to yield a greater peak knee abduction moment compared to level-walking. Changes in step width (SW) may lead to changes in frontal plane lower extremity limb alignment in the frontal plane and alter peak knee abduction moment. The purpose of...

the study area is the rahmat anticline. this is located in fars province (sw fold simple zagros belt). the aims of this study are morphotectonic studies and structural analysis in several parts of area. for this purpose: 1) morphotectonic indices, drainage basin shape index (bs), mountain front sinuosity index (smf) and valley floor width – height ratio (vf) were measured by digital elevation m...

Ten body measurements were taken on 30 Uda sheep aged 0-14 months within the humid southwest Nigeria. The body measurements were wither height (WH), body length (BL), rump length (RL), rump height (RH), rump width (RW), foreleg length (FL), shoulder width (SW), face length (FaL), tail length (TL) and heart girth (HG). The aim was to investigate the variance structure and provide an objective de...

Sandwichlike (SW) cultures are engineered as a multilayer technology to simultaneously stimulate dorsal and ventral cell receptors, seeking to mimic cell adhesion in three-dimensional (3D) environments in a reductionist manner. The effect of this environment on cell differentiation was investigated for several cell types cultured in standard growth media, which promotes proliferation on two-dim...