We studied the azimuthal orientations of collagen fibers in histological slides of uterine cervical tissue by two different microscopy techniques, namely Mueller polarimetry (MP) and Second Harmonic Generation (SHG). SHG provides direct visualization of the fibers with high specificity, which orientations is then obtained by suitable image processing. MP provides images of retardation (among ot...

We investigated the use of nonwoven fiber barriers for control of cabbage maggot, Delia radicum (L.), and onion maggot, D. antiqua (Meigen). The barriers consist of arrangements of minute fibers loosely intertwined in "web" form. Results from a greenhouse experiment showed that manually applied graphite fibers placed at the base of broccoli plants reduced the number of D. radicum eggs by 64-98%...

Although striated muscles differ in mitochondrial content, the extent of fiber-type specific mitochondrial specializations is not well known. To address this issue, we compared mitochondrial structural and functional properties in red muscle (RM), white muscle (WM), and cardiac muscle of rainbow trout. Overall preservation of the basic relationships between oxidative phosphorylation complexes a...

BAGBY, GREGORY J., WALTER L. SEMBROWICH, AND PHILIP D. GOLLNICK. Myosin A TPase and fiber composition from trained and untrained rat skeletal muscle. Am. J. Physiol. 223(6): 1415-1417. 1972.-Myosin ATPase and fiber composition were determined in the gastrocnemius muscle of sedentary, endurance-trained, and sprint-trained rats. The endurance training was running in motordriven wheels 60 min/day ...

The effects of basalt fiber incorporation on the mechanical properties red clay soils were investigated. Through direct shear test, unconfined compressive strength and microstructure curves stress–strain fiber-modified obtained under different rates soil dry density conditions. results showed that: (1) significantly increased after fiber; (2) increase was greatest at 0.3% incorporation, which o...

The spectral shift due to temperature in the photonic bandgap (PBG) of an all-solid PBG fiber is investigated, aiming at discrete and distributed temperature sensing. A temperature rise induces a red shift in the bandgap spectra, which can be easily and precisely monitored by measuring the fiber transmission near one of the band edges. Two different situations that are potentially compatible wi...