Inductive power links are most viable for the long-term powering of cardiac pacemakers. Designing an inductive link without surpassing specific absorption rate (SAR) modern leadless pacemakers (LCPs) remains a challenging task because its size and implantation depth. The employed in conventional works is either designed at high frequency or based on size, shape, weight, depth Here, 3-coil trans...

One of the main concerns of scholars working in the field of EAP over the last 2decades has been raising the awareness of EAP students and publishers of genreconventions in academic journals. In line with the above concern, many studies haveaimed at exploring the general characteristics of research articles (RAs) in the field.Among these features, it seems that the generic moves and textuality ...

The Doi kinetic theory for homogeneous flows of rodlike liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) is extended to inhomogeneous flows through introducing a nonlocal intermolecular potential. An extra term in the form of an elastic body force comes out as a result of this extension. Systematic asympototic analysis in the small Deborah number limit is carried out, and the classical EricksenLeslie equatio...

Oily fish and other sources of long-chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 LCPs) have been proposed as protective against dementia and age related cognitive impairment. The basic mechanisms underlying these proposed benefits have been postulated and experimental studies supporting the plausibility of the putative effects have been published. Observational epidemiological and case control st...

Implantable electrodes with high flexibility, high mechanical fixation and low electrochemical impedance are desirable for neuromuscular activation because they provide safe, effective and stable stimulation. In this paper, we report on detailed materials and electrical analyses of three metal implantable electrodes - gold (Au), platinum (Pt) and titanium (Ti) - using X-ray photoelectron spectr...

The essential fatty acids (EFAs), particularly the n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPs), are important for brain development during both the fetal and postnatal period. They are also increasingly seen to be of value in limiting the cognitive decline during aging. EFA deficiency was first shown over 75 years ago, but the more subtle effects of the n-3 fatty acids in terms of skin ch...

Only two types of rubber oxygenases, rubber oxygenase (RoxA) and latex clearing protein (Lcp), have been described so far. RoxA proteins (RoxAs) are c-type cytochromes of ≈70 kDa produced by Gram-negative rubber-degrading bacteria, and they cleave polyisoprene into 12-oxo-4,8-dimethyltrideca-4,8-diene-1-al (ODTD), a C15 oligo-isoprenoid, as the major end product. Lcps are common among Gram-posi...

We present a new interior-point potential-reduction algorithm for solving monotone linear complementarity problems (LCPs) that have a particular special structure: their matrix M ∈ Rn×n can be decomposed as M = ΦU +Π0, where the rank of Φ is k < n, and Π0 denotes Euclidean projection onto the nullspace of Φ⊤. We call such LCPs projective. Our algorithm solves a monotone projective LCP to relati...

Based on a well-known reformulation of the linear complementarity problem (LCP) as a nondifferentiable system of nonlinear equations, a Newton-type method will be described for the solution of LCPs. Under certain assumptions, it will be shown that this method has a finite termination property, i.e., if an iterate is sufficiently close to a solution of LCP, the method finds this solution in one ...