An MSc degree course in Asset Management has been running in Aberdeen (Robert Gordon Univ.) for 4 years now, and is being spread to multi-industry, modular and in situ delivery for 2001. See: http//univation.rgu.com Various commercial organisations (including The Woodhouse Partnership Ltd) are offering short courses in the component techniques. See: http//www.twpl.co.uk The Institute of Asset M...

With developments in genetics, researchers are increasingly able to address historical issues surrounding human migration and provenance by studying present populations. Nigel Williams reports on one of the latest studies looking at a crucial period of British history.

Active matrix organic light emitting diode (AMOLED) displays are considerably attractive for high brightness, high efficiency and fast response time. Active matrix employing thin Film Transistors (TFTs) allows OLED displays to be larger in size, higher in resolution and lower in power consumption than passive matrix. Especially, low temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) TFT employing excim...

Models generalizing the su(2) XX spin-chain were recently introduced. These XXC models also have an underlying su(2) structure. Their construction method is shown to generalize to the chains based on the fundamental representations of the Am Lie algebras. Integrability of the new models is shown in the context of the quantum inverse scattering method. Their R-matrix is found and shown to yield ...

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Complaints of memory loss are frequent as one ages. Individuals worry about the presence of Alzheimer's disease, but the presence of other intact intellectual abilities is reassuring to these people. We do not know the cause of Alzheimer's disease. There are now 5.4 million confirmed cases in the United States. We know that the disease is an age-related, non-reversible brain disorder that devel...

Scaffolds derived from decellularized tissues provide a natural microenvironment for cell culture. Embryonic cerebrospinal fluid (e-CSF) contains factors which play vital roles in development of the nervous system. This research was aimed to survey the effect of Wistar rat e-CSF on neural differentiation of bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) cultured on the human amniotic memb...

objective: as a biological tissue material, amniotic membrane (am) has low immunogenicity and to date has been widely adopted in clinical practice. however, some features such as low biomechanical consistency and rapid biodegradation is limited the application of am. therefore, in this study, we fabricated a novel three-dimensional (3d) spongy scaffold made of the extracellular matrix (ecm) of ...