Editor's Note: The editors invited two perspectives— one more detailed, one more open-ended—on the important article in this issue of the journal by Roblyer et al. on new imaging technology for neoplasia screening in the oral cavity. Whereas the perspective by the Rosin group (Poh et al.) puts autofluorescence imaging and the Roblyer et al. report under a figurative microscope, this different p...

A mathematical system for modeling the effects of symmetrized instrumental aberrations has been developed. The is composed truncated Gaussian, sheared and Rosin-Rammler-type functions. shape function can uniquely be determined by standard deviation kurtosis. practical method to evaluate convolution with Lorentzian results application analysis experimental powder diffraction data are briefly des...

A systematic study of the influence of plastic deformation and low temperature ageing on the carbon Dislocation Enhanced Finkelshtain Rosin Effect (DEFREIC) in austenitic alloys of Fe-Ni, Fe-Ni-MO, Fe-Mn-A1 and Fe-Cr-Ni systems with different carbon content is reported. The experiments prove that after plastic deformation at room temperature the FR effect is transformed into DEFREIC. nith both ...

Graft copolymerization of rosin-(2-acryloyloxy)ethyl ester (RAEE) onto chitosan (Cts) was carried out under microwave irradiation using potassium persulfate as an initiator. The structures, morphology, and thermal properties of the Cts graft copolymer (Cts-g-PRAEE) were characterized by means of FT-IR, XRD, SEM, and TG. Also, Cts and Cts-g-PRAEE copolymer were used as carriers of fenoprofen cal...

sulfur mustard (sm, bis- (2-chloroethyl) sulphide) is a chemical warfare agent that causes dna alkylation, protein modification and membrane damage. sm can trigger several molecular pathways involved in inflammation and oxidative stress, which cause cell necrosis and apoptosis, and loss of cells integrity and function. epigenetic regulation of gene expression is a growing research topic and is ...