Organ transplantation is limited by the shortage of human organs. Many studies have sought to overcome this hurdle by using animal organs. Porcine organs, especially from miniature pigs, have been used for organ xenotransplantation rather than nonhuman primates. While the molecular profiling for transplantation is well known in humans and rodents, the situation for pigs is almost completely unk...

This paper examines the five different Thule postal stamps which circulated from 1935 to 1936 between trading post of (which is Danish name for settlement Uummannaq in Northwest Greenland, today Air Base) and Cape York office Copenhagen. The images on not only concentrate visualize complex colonial history Greenland Denmark. Instead, they also dynamize preserve historical power relations by mak...

The initial steps toward a miniature, field portable sensor based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) are presented. It is demonstrated that a low-cost miniaturized Raman system can be used in place of a larger, higher-cost conventional Raman system. This system was developed by sequentially replacing components of a laboratory scale Raman spectroscopy system with smaller, lower-cost,...

Point of care (POC) medical technologies require portable, small, robust instrumentation for practical implementation. In their current embodiment, optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) systems employ large form-factor wavelength-swept lasers, making them impractical in the POC environment. Here, we describe a first step toward a POC OFDI system by demonstrating a miniaturized swept-wavelengt...

In this paper, we propose a laboratory-based computer networking course to better teach various networking concepts to undergraduate students. Specifically, we ask students to build the lab network as a miniature Internet (MINT) from the ground up. Each laboratory builds upon the last until the desired infrastructure is in place. Students are then asked to set up common network services, extend...

blood samples were collected from 20 healthy miniature caspian horses at 37 °c. isolation of cryoglobulin was performed based on a standard method in present study. harvested sera were kept at 4 °c for two hours and then examined for cryoglubolin. four serum samples containing precipitate suspicious of containing cryoglobulin were selected. subsequently serum protein electrophoresis was perform...

Title of Document: FLY-EAR INSPIRED MINIATURE SENSOR SYSTEM FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL SOUND SOURCE LOCALIZATION Andrew P. Lisiewski, Master of Science, 2011 Directed By: Associate Professor Miao Yu Sensors and Actuators Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering A micro-scale sound localization sensor is developed and studied in this thesis to address the fundamental challenge of miniaturizing s...

We report on the development of a compact, easy-to-use terahertz radiation source, which combines a quantum-cascade laser (QCL) operating at 3.1 THz with a compact, low-input-power Stirling cooler. The QCL, which is based on a two-miniband design, has been developed for high output and low electrical pump power. The amount of generated heat complies with the nominal cooling capacity of the Stir...

Scaling down of electronic systems has generated a large interest in the research on miniature energy sources. In this paper a closer look is given to the use of vibration based scavengers in industrial environments, where waste energy is abundantly available as engine related vibrations or large amplitude motions. The modeling of mechanical generators resulted in the design and realization of ...