We present a new technique for the evaluation of polymer blood compatibility that makes use of a microchannel array flow analyzer and we describe and characterize the flow dynamics of this instrument. The blood compatibility of four polymers is quantitatively and qualitatively assessed and the results discussed. The blood is allowed to flow through the channels of a polymer coated micro-fluidic...

Mechanical properties of particulate goat bone reinforced epoxy composite were investigated in this research. This was aimed at assessing the suitability of the developed composites for biomedical applications. The combination of the two materials for the development of the composites was targeted to meet good surface compatibility in addition to the structural compatibility needed as biomateri...

Traditional biochemical and histopathological tests have been used to evaluate the safety of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) compatibility for a long time. But these methods lack high sensitivity and specificity. In the previous study, we have found ten biomarkers related to cardiotoxicity and established a support vector machine (SVM) prediction model. Results showed a good sensitivity and ...

High temperature XRD has been employed to monitor the devitrification of DuPont 951 low temperature co-fued ceramic (LTCC) and DuPont ES4005 resistor ink. The LTCC underwent devitrification to an anorthite phase in the range of 835-875 ‘C with activation energy of 180 kJ/mol as calculated from kinetic data. The resistor paste underwent devitrification in the 835875 ‘C range forming monoclinic a...

Efficient strategies for limiting the impact of pathogens on crops require a good understanding of the factors underlying the evolution of compatibility range for the pathogens and host plants, i.e., the set of host genotypes that a particular pathogen genotype can infect and the set of pathogen genotypes that can infect a particular host genotype. Until now, little is known about the evolution...

Formate drilling and completion fluid system is a new type of clean organic salt brine system which has been developed from inorganic salt brine drilling fluid system. It is beneficial to protecte and find hydrocarbon reservoir. Due to the solid free system, the damage of solid phase particles on reservoir, especially low permeability oil and gas layer, can be greatly eliminated, at the same ti...

Background. A parallel manipulator concept using bistable polymer actuators has been developed to perform prostate cancer biopsy and deliver therapy within the bore of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner. The dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) used in this manipulator concept are promising for MRI-compatible robotics because they do not interfere with the high magnetic fields of MRI wh...

(Non-)portability of Prolog programs is widely considered as an important factor in the lack of acceptance of the language. Since 1995, the core of the language is covered by the ISO standard 13211-1. Since 2007, YAP and SWI-Prolog have established a basic compatibility framework. This article describes and evaluates this framework. The aim of the framework is running the same code on both syst...