BACKGROUND Recent studies demonstrated an impact of the nervous system on particle-induced osteolysis, the major cause of aseptic loosening of joint replacements. METHODS In this study of MG-63 osteoblast-like cells we analyzed the influence of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) particles and the neurotransmitter alpha-calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) on the osteoproteger...

Introduction: Alpha particle emitters are very damaging and harmful when entering into the human body ,if   ingested or inhaled , swallowed or absorbed  into the lungs or bloodstream . Uranium (238U), Radium (226Ra) and Radon (222Rn) are typical alpha-particle emitters. Material and Methods: we measured the level of alpha particles emitted from 222Rn, 226Ra, and 238U in blood samples of 10 can...

A round up of the present status of the conjecture that nα nuclei form an αparticle condensate in excited states close to the nα threshold is given. Experiments which could demonstrate the condensate character are proposed. Possible lines of further theoretical developments are discussed. In this article we want to report on the present status of our recent conjecture [1] that at least light nα...

ARTICLE HISTORY Received 1 November 2016 Accepted 28 May 2017 ABSTRACT A water-based fast integrated mobility spectrometer (WFIMS) with enhanced dynamic size range is developed. The WFIMS builds on two established technologies: the fast integrated mobility spectrometer and laminar flow water-based condensation methodology. Inside WFIMS, particles of differing electrical mobility are separated i...

The phase behavior of poly-N-isopropylacrylamide (PNIPAM) nanoparticles dispersed in water is investigated using a thermodynamic perturbation theory combined with light-scattering and spectrometer measurements. It is shown how the volume transition of PNIPAM particles affects the interaction potential and determines a novel phase diagram that has not been observed in conventional colloids. Beca...

Charged particle multiplicities are studied in proton-proton collisions in the forward region at a centre-of-mass energy of √ s = 7 TeV with data collected by the LHCb detector. The forward spectrometer accesses a kinematic range of 2.0 < η < 4.8 in pseudorapidity, momenta greater than 2 GeV/c and transverse momenta greater than 0.2 GeV/c. The measurements are performed using events with at lea...

The Pd nucleus has been studied with the Mo(B, p2nγ) reaction at 43 MeV incident energy. γ−γ− t, γ−γ− charged particle coincidences and directional correlation ratios were measured using the γ spectrometer formed by four Compton suppressed HPGe detectors and a 4π charged-particle ancillary detector system. The struture of the bands was interpreted within the framework of the cranked shell model...

A facile co-precipitation method for the synthesis of well-dispersed NdFeO3 nanocrystals is developed in the presence of octanoic acid as surfactant. Co-precipitation can produce fine, high-purity, stoichiometric particles of single and multicomponent metal oxides. The product is characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microsc...