background: radiation-sensitive polymer gels are among the most promising three-dimensional dose verification tools and tissue-like developed to date. among the special features of this type of dosimeters, is be doped with other elements or chemicals which made them appropriate for investigating of dose enhancement with contrast agents, by high atomic number. material and methods: in this study...

This work reports a solution-based method for on chip growth of wrinkled gold nanoparticles. During the growth process, time-resolved scattering profiles were measured, which permitted one to collect information regarding the growth kinetics. Finally, using the fabricated substrate, a 30 times stronger SERS enhancement was achieved than a spherical nanoparticle immobilized substrate.

The addition of the enterobacterial autoinducer of growth to nutrient-poor minimal medium markedly accelerated the exponential growth rates of strains of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli but had little or no effect on maximal cell densities in stationary phase. Growth in the presence of the autoinducer resulted in an approximately twofold enhancement in Shiga toxin production.

The application of iron-silica (Fe-Si) nanoparticles for the enhancement of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa growth and rhamnolipid production in molasses medium was studied. The experiments were designed based on the response surface method (RSM) to optimize growth and rhamnolipid production. The concentration of nanoparticles and the time required to add nanoparticles to culture medium were conside...

This paper derives the first-order approximated paths of both types of capital in the two-capital neoclassical growth model. The derived capital growth paths reveal that the short-run growth effect of capital injection differs considerably depending on which type of capital is enhanced. This result demonstrates the importance of well-targeted capital enhancement programs such as public sector p...

objective(s) the purpose of the present study was to use the solid dispersion (sd) technique to improve the dissolution rates of indomethacin (imc). materials and methods imc solid dispersions in pvp k30 and isomalt (galen iq 990) were prepared using the solvent evaporation technique and a hot melt method in weight ratios of 2, 10 and 30% (imc:pvp). solid dispersions and physical mixtures were ...

background: assessment of national children growth has shown that a high percent of country's children are afflicted to growth failure. community participation is one of the principles of phc emphasized by who that is necessary for develop­ment of health services. the objective of this study was to develop a model for mother's participation in order to improving growth and nutrition of children...

the effects of weight and length of barbus grypus broodstock on fingerlings reproductive characteristics and growth were investigated. we chose three female treatments  including weight and length groups (1) 2212.5±479g,  62.68±6.7cm, (2) 4518±780g,  79.12±4.36cm  and (3) 7712.5±1171g, 92.62±3.13cm. the same male broodstock were used for all the treatments with the weight and length size of 140...

The effect of human growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), IGF-II, and insulin on human plasma cell responses was studied. GH enhanced Ig production and thymidine uptake in the human plasma cell lines, IM-9 and AF-10. IGF-I, but not IGF-II or insulin, also enhanced Ig production and proliferation in them. However, enhancement by GH was not mediated by IGF-I, because enhan...