In the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, there is a demand for construction of three-dimensional (3D) organs such as liver, pancreas, and kidney. Although recent advances in tissue engineering allowed us to construct two-dimensional tissues such as skin and cornea, it is still challenging to construct 3D organs. Since these vital organs are complex in structure and contain ...

The current concept for high-level radioactive waste disposal at Yucca Mountain is for the waste to be placed in underground tunnels (or drifts) in the middle of a thick unsaturated zone. Flow modeling and field testing have shown that not all flow encountering a drift will seep into the drift. The underlying reason for the diversion of unsaturated flow around a drift is that capillary forces i...

We studied a number of dynamic events associated with the pulsatile flow of blood in the pulmonary arterial system of six healthy men in the supine position. We used the nitrous oxide-body plethysmograph method to record the pulmonary capillary blood flow pulse and the phonocardiogram to determine the time of opening and closing of the pulmonary valve. The pattern of right ventricular ejection ...

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