Modelling the profile of a liquid droplet has been mainstream technique for researchers to study physical properties liquid. This proposes facile modelling approach using an elliptic model generate sessile droplets, with MATLAB as simulation environment. The concept method is simple and easy use. Only three specific points on are needed complete theoretical along its critical parameters such vo...

Abandoned and flooded ore mines are examples of hostile environments (cold, dark, oligotrophic, trace metal) with a potential vast diversity microbial communities rarely characterized. This study aimed to understand the effects depth, source water (surface or groundwater), abiotic factors on present in old Forsyth iron mine Quebec (Canada). Water biofilm samples from were sampled by team techni...

Evaporating drops and thin films have numerous applications, from nanometric photoresist films in semiconductor applications to small sessile drops used for analysis of DNA microarrays [1]. Evaporating sessile drops are particularly interesting due to nonuniform drop thickness and the presence of contact lines (separating liquid, gas and solid phase). These factors may lead to nonuniform evapor...

Genomewide analyses of distances between orthologous gene pairs from the ascidian species Ciona intestinalis and Ciona savignyi were compared with those of vertebrates. Combining this data with a detailed and careful use of vertebrate fossil records, we estimated the time of divergence between the two ascidians nearly 180 My. This estimation was obtained after correcting for the different subst...

Acinetobacter baumannii is an important pathogen, capable of survival for very long periods on various surfaces in the hospital environment. Tigecycline is a commonly used antimicrobial agent especially for the treatment of resistant infections. The aim of this study was to investigate the activity of tigecycline on both planktonic and sessile biofilm cells of A. baumannii strains isolated from...