Recent studies suggest that a wide range of human health effects could result from exposure to carbon nanotubes (CNTs). A National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health survey of the carbonaceous nanomaterial industry found that 77% of the companies used respiratory protection, such as filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs). Despite CNT studies in some occupational settings being reporte...

Robust point matching (RPM) jointly estimates correspondences and non-rigid warps between unstructured point-clouds. RPM does not, however, utilize information of the topological structure or group memberships of the data it is matching. In numerous medical imaging applications, each extracted point can be assigned group membership attributes or labels based on segmentation, partitioning, or cl...

When [14C]oleate-bovine serum albumin complexes were incubated in vitro with rat liver plasma membranes (LPM), specific, saturable binding of oleate to the membranes was observed. Maximal heat-sensitive (i.e., specific) binding was 3.2 nmol/mg of membrane protein. Oleate-agarose affinity chromatography of Triton X-100-solubilized LPM was used to isolate a single 40-kDa protein with high affinit...

A locality-preserving mapping (LPM) from the multidimensional space into the one-dimensional space is beneficial for many applications (e.g., range queries, ncarestneighbor queries, clustering, and dedustcring) when multidimeIlsional data is placed into one-dimensional storage (e.g., the disk). The idea behind a locality-preserving mapping is to map points that are nearby in the multidimensiona...

The zebrafish mutation curly up (cup) affects the zebrafish ortholog of polycystic kidney disease 2, a gene that encodes the Ca(2+)-activated non-specific cation channel, Polycystin 2. We have characterized two alleles of cup, both of which display defects in organ positioning that resemble human heterotaxia, as well as abnormalities in asymmetric gene expression in the lateral plate mesoderm (...

The design and development of a photovoltaic thermal (PVT) collector were developed in this study, electrical efficiency assessed. To improve system performance, two types coolants employed, liquid liquid-based MnO nanofluid. Flow rates ranging from 1 to 4 liters per minute (LPM) for the interval 1.0 LPM together with 0.1% concentration manganese oxide (MnO) Various parametric investigations, i...

We study the implications of the LPM effect for the Cherenkov radiation of EeV electromagnetic showers in the coherent radiowave regime for ice. We show that for showers above 100 PeV the electric field scales with shower energy but has a markedly narrower angular distribution than for lower energy showers. We give an electric field frequency and angular spectrum parameter-ization valid for sho...

We adopted the transient numerical method for simulation of an ELECTRE vehicle with opposing jet at altitude 53.3 km and 13 Ma to explore characteristics as well performance in heat drag reductions hypersonic nonequilibrium flows. The time-accurate, N-S equations coupled five-species Park chemical kinetic model vibrational energy excitation were applied, open source solver Hy2FOAM based on Open...