Purpose This study asks whether lower quality forms of employment lead to career transitions into higher acting as steppingstones, or bridges or, instead they dead-ends, traps, in which workers move between unstable jobs with low prospects for upward mobility and unemployment. Design/methodology/approach uses a unique longitudinal dataset recording monthly states over 3 years 373 individuals th...

Large dense core vesicle (LDCV) exocytosis in chromaffin cells follows a well characterized process consisting of docking, priming, and fusion. Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM) studies suggest that some LDCVs, although being able to dock, are resistant to calcium-triggered release. This phenomenon termed dead-end docking has not been investigated until now. We character...

In the present work, we investigate the potential of aqueous polymer microgels in membrane technology, especially for filtration applications. The poly(N-vinylcaprolactam)-based microgels exhibit thermoresponsive behavior and were employed to coat hollow-fiber membranes used for micro- and ultrafiltration. We discuss the preparation of microgel-modified membranes (by "inside-out" as well as "ou...

The existence and multiplicity of solutions to a quasilinear, elliptic partial differential equation (PDE) with singular non-linearity is analyzed. The PDE is a recently derived variant of a canonical model used in the modeling of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). It is observed that the bifurcation curve of solutions terminates at single deadend point, beyond which no classical solutions...

Chemical flooding, especially alkaline/surfactant/polymer flooding, is of increasing interest due to the world increasing oil demand. This work shows the aspects of using alkaline/surfactant/polymer as an enhanced oil recovery method in the porous media having a high dead-end pore frequency with various dead-end pore parameters (such as opening, depth, aspect ratio, and orientation). Using glas...

Introduction Physiology of Carbon Dioxide PACO2 PaCO2 The Concept of Dead Space Measurement of Dead Space Bohr Enghoff Langley Alveolar Ejection Volume Causes of Elevated Dead Space in Mechanically Ventilated Patients Pulmonary Embolism COPD ARDS Effects of Mechanical Ventilation on Dead Space Effect of VT Effect of PEEP Effect of Inspiratory Flow Waveforms and End-Inspiratory Pause Prone Posit...

A specific class of anions inhibit creatine kinase by stabilizing the dead-end complex, enzymedivalent cation*ADP*creatine (Watts, D. C. (1973) The Enzymes 8, 383-455). The inhibitory action o? the anions is attributed to the ability of the anions to mimic the equatorial PO3 plane formed by the migrating phosphoryl group in the transition state of the reaction. Infrared spectroscopy has been us...