The phase equilibria, engine performance and gas emissions of gasoline-ethanol-water blends with pyridine isobutanol added for increased water tolerance, were investigated. It was observed that addition produced slightly higher ratios ethanol in the stable fuel blend when compared to isobutanol, ratio additive amount. Engine performances combustion characteristics measured a single cylinder, fo...

A magnetically controlled elastically driven electroporation phenomenon, or magneto-elasto-electroporation (MEEP), is discovered while studying the interactions between core-shell magnetoelectric nanoparticles (CSMEN) and biological cells in the presence of an a.c. magnetic field. In this paper we report the effect of MEEP observed via a series of in-vitro experiments using core (CoFe2O4)-shell...

Role of microRNA (miRNA) has been highlighted in pathogen-host interactions recently. To identify cellular miRNAs involved in the host response to enterovirus 71 (EV71) infection, we performed a comprehensive miRNA profiling in EV71-infected Hep2 cells through deep sequencing. 64 miRNAs were found whose expression levels changed for more than 2-fold in response to EV71 infection. Gene ontology ...

To explore new targets for hepatoma research, we used a surface display library to screen novel tumor cell-specific peptides. The bacterial FliTrx system was screened with living normal liver cell line L02 and hepatoma cell line HepG2 successively to search for hepatoma-specific peptides. Three clones (Hep1, Hep2, and Hep3) were identified to be specific to HepG2 compared with L02 and other can...

Database systems are very important in any HEP2 experiment in the world. HEP community in LHC3 era is in transition from FORTRAN to C++ and from data streams to persistent objects. Together with that a new data management will be necessary, which would allow transition from “files and tapes” approach towards the access to data in form of objects by selection of their required physics contents. ...

We review data from our studies of the physiological role of placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) and report that, in addition to functioning in catalysis, PLAP has the capacity to bind the Fc portion of human IgG. The dissociation constant for the interaction (3.86 mumol/L) indicates that the PLAP-IgG complex probably occurs in vivo. Furthermore, the electrophoretic and immunochemical propert...