Microsized “giant” drives new rapid-screening device

New device for high-throughput viability screening of flow biofilms.

Control of biofilms requires rapid methods to identify compounds effective against them and to isolate resistance-compromised mutants for identifying genes involved in enhanced biofilm resistance. While rapid screening methods for microtiter plate well ("static") biofilms are available, there are no methods for such screening of continuous flow biofilms ("flow biofilms"). Since the latter biofi...

Rapid Identification of Virtual CNC Drives

Rapid Control Prototyping for Electric Drives

This paper presents an approach to rapid prototyping of control algorithms for electric motors with dSpace real-time simulation platform. dSpace board DS1103 is connected to Freescale 3-Phase BLDC/PMSM Low-Voltage Motor Control Drive providing sufficient power output to the electric motor. Control action is performed by pulse width modulated (PWM) signals generated in dSpace board using Simulin...

Rapid screening for sarcopenia

The four major comments of muscle wasting disease are cachexia, sarcopenia, malnutrition and congenital. Of these, themost common is sarcopenia. Since sarcopenia is a clinical situation which causes various adverse outcomes, including immobility, falls, disability and death in older people , the importance of recognizing and treating sarcopenia has been recognized by providing an ICD-10 code fo...

Thermodynamic relaxation drives expulsion in giant unilamellar vesicles.

We investigated the thermodynamic relaxation of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) which contained small vesicles within their interior. Quenching these vesicles from their fluid phase (T > T(m)) through the phase transition in the gel state (T < T(m)) drives the inner vesicles to be expelled from the larger mother vesicle via the accompanying decrease in the vesicle area by approximately 25% wh...