INTRODUCTION Since 1974, when Sydney Brenner first introduced Caenorhabditis elegans in the scientific community as a model organism (Brenner, 1974), the nematode has been extensively used as a model system to study cellular biology. One of the most intriguing fields of molecular biology that have been investigated using this model host and that led to the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medi...

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The annual number of computed tomography (CT) procedures in the U.S. has increased 20-fold (from 3 to 60 million) between 1985 and 2005 (1), and as a result, the average (i.e., per capita) annual background dose in the U.S. has nearly doubled from 3.0 to 5.6 mSv (2). This has precipitated increasing societal concern over the potential public health impact—an increased risk of cancer—associated ...

Hydrogen adsorption by graphite is examined by classical molecular dynamics simulation using a modified Brenner REBO potential. Such interactions are typical in chemical sputtering experiments, and knowledge of the fundamental behavior of hydrogen and graphene in collisional conditions is essential for modeling the sputtering mechanism. The hydrogen adsorption rate is found to be dependent on t...

Thick Cu−Sn alloy layers were produced in an [EMIM]Cl ionic-liquid solution from CuCl2 and SnCl2 different ratios. All work, including the electrodeposition, took place outside glovebox with a continuous argon stream over electrolyte at 95 °C. The layer composition thickness can be adjusted by variation of metal-salts content electrolyte. A up to 15 µm copper ωCu = 0.86 was obtained. phase char...