Abstract Dense fibrous extracellular constitution of solid tumors exerts high resistance to diffusive transport into it; additionally, the scarcity blood and lymphatic flows hinders convection. The complexity fluidic mechanisms in such tumor environments still presents open questions with translational end goals. For example, clinical diagnosis targeted drug delivery platforms for dense can ide...

INTRODUCTION Authors describe human schistosomal granuloma in late chronic phase, from the morphological and evolutionary viewpoints. METHODS The study was based on a histological analysis of two fragments obtained from a surgical biopsy of peritoneum and large intestine of a 42-year-old patient, with a pseudotumoral form mimicking a peritoneal carcinomatosis associated to the schistosomiasis...

Various predictive models are available for high pressure inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes in food, but currently available models do not consider the growth kinetics of surviving cells during the subsequent storage of products. Therefore, we characterised the growth of L. monocytogenes in sliced cooked meat products after a pressurization treatment. Two inoculum levels (10(7) or 10(4) CF...

Gas reservoirs with low permeability (k<0.1 mD) are among the unconventional reservoirs and are commonly termed as "Tight Gas Reservoirs". In conventional gas reservoirs that have high permeability, the flow of gas is basically controlled by the reservoir permeability and it is calculated using the Darcy equation. In these reservoirs, gas flow due to gas diffusion is ignored compared to Dar...

This paper applies a two-phase methodology to cluster 366 records of the wire bond machines for a Taiwanese IC packaging foundry, where six attributes of each machine are chosen to cluster. The purpose of clustering in this paper is to help the foundry more effectively assign a family of machines to orders that appear in various forms such as emergent or quality-demanding and are highly dynamic...

Because of the complexity of wet steam two-phase condensation flow, many problems remain to be solved. The important part of condensation theory—the calculation of the water droplet growth model in the transition zone—is not ideal; thus, it is necessary to develop a water droplet growth model with full-scale range. On the basis of the heat and mass transfer equilibrium in droplet growth, a coup...