This study investigates the three-dimensional structure of the eight plate exoskeletal (shell) assembly of the chiton Tonicella marmorea. X-ray micro-computed tomography and 3D printing elucidate the mechanism of conformational change from a passive (slightly curved, attached to surface) to a defensive (rolled, detached from surface) state of the plate assembly. The passive and defensive confor...

A new method for accurate measurement of the microwave surface resistance flat metal plates is proposed and verified experimentally, based on a sapphire dielectric resonator. System losses are accounted by having continuous controlled variation distance between sample under test.

The pour plate method of counting bacteria is more precise than the streak plate method, but, on the average, it will give a lower count.

This paper presents the behaviour and design procedure of bolted connections which tend to be sensitive block shear failure. The finite element method is employed examine research-oriented (RFEM) model validated with results experimental tests. used verify component-based FEM (CBFEM) model, combines analysis internal forces by plates, bolts welds component (CM). CBFEM verified an analytical sol...

5 Convert data from plate order to multi-dimensional SGI-arrary 11 5.1 Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.2 Parse plate barcodes to annotate the plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.3 Reorder data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

5 Convert data from plate order to multi-dimensional SGI-arrary 11 5.1 Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.2 Parse plate barcodes to annotate the plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.3 Reorder data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

background: considering that elisa method presently is the test of choice for diagnosis of fasciolo­sis, the present study was undertaken to evaluate the maximum validity of coated plates at dif­ferent temperatures and different times during one year of evaluation. methods: serum samples of patients infected with fasciolosis (n=10), hydatidosis (n=5), toxocaria­sis (n=5), and negative control s...

Cold development was applied to improve the resolution in a trilayer resist that is used for the fabrication of state-of-the-art soft x-ray microscopy zone plates. By decreasing the temperature of the hexyl acetate developer to −50 °C, 11 nm half-pitch gratings have been resolved in the electron-beam resist ZEP 7000. 12 nm half-pitch gratings have been successfully transferred, via the intermed...

Sustained mechanical loading alters longitudinal growth of bones, and this growth sensitivity to load has been implicated in progression of skeletal deformities during growth. The objective of this study was to quantify the relationship between altered growth and different magnitudes of sustained altered stress in a diverse set of nonhuman growth plates. The sensitivity of endochondral growth t...

The dynamics of water near the nanoscale hydrophobic (graphite-CH(3)) and hydrophilic (graphite-COOH) plates has been studied in detail with molecular dynamics simulations in this paper. It is shown that these designed surfaces (by growing a layer of methyl or carboxyl groups on top of graphite) can have a significant impact on the neighboring water dynamics, with the hydrophilic carboxyl surfa...