Citric-acid-derived thermally cross-linked biodegradable elastomers (CABEs) have recently received significant attention in various biomedical applications, including tissue-engineering orthopedic devices, bioimaging and implant coatings. However, citric-acid-derived photo-cross-linked biodegradable elastomers are rarely reported. Herein, we report a novel photo-cross-linked biodegradable elast...

The experimental &?la on vector meson photoproduction and Compton scattering is analyzed by utilizing the dual absorptive model. The s-channel helicity conserving (SIIC) PO~UXOII exchange amplitude in p” and + photo:>ro&uction is found to shrink with s, in the same way as in Fand K-~-nucleon elastic scattering. The small SEX!-violatjng amplitudzs’are al.so studied. The ratio of amplitudes for 1...

In photo-acoustic imaging, energy absorption causes thermo-elastic expansion of optical absorbers, which in turn leads to propagation of a pressure wave. Recently, we have developed an efficient method for locating small absorbing regions inside a bounded domain from boundary measurements of the induced pressure wave and reconstructing the absorbed density. However, it is the absorption coeffic...

We perform phenomenological applications of modified gluon propagators and running coupling constants in scattering processes in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). The modified forms of propagators and running coupling constant are obtained by non-perturbative methods. The processes investigated includes the diffractive ones – proton-proton elastic scattering, light vector meson photo-production and...

The importance of three-body dynamics in the ηnp system in elastic and inelastic η-deuteron scattering as well as coherent and incoherent η photo-production on the deuteron in the energy region from threshold up to 30 MeV above has been investigated. It is shown that a restriction to first order rescat-tering with respect to the N N-and ηN-final state interactions, i.e., restriction to rescatte...

background: common carotid arterial stiffness can be assessed during carotid arterial ultrasonography, but its association with brachial stiffness, a well-defined cardiovascular risk factor, has not been clarified. the aim of this study was to examine the relationship between common carotid artery and brachial artery stiffness. methods: the static pressure-strain elastic modulus of the common c...

ZnO and Mn-ZnO nano powders were prepared by the sol-gel auto combustion method. The products were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), energy dispersive analysis of X-ray (EDX) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Structural and morphological properties of nano particles were investigated and the average crystalline size of ZnO and Mn-doped ZnO was obtained 44 and 51 nm, respectively. ...

Phorigami is a photo browser whose meta-interface visualizes photos by groups according to the analysis of photo contexts. At the core of Phorigami, we proposed a meta-categorization for photo regrouping. This categorization method encompasses the scope of current or expected recognition technologies. Two experiments are conducted by manual classification tasks to study the pertinence of propos...