In recent years, demand for smart windows with dimming and other functions has been increasing, e.g., polymer dispersed liquid crystals. Liquid crystal (LC) gels also have the potential glass applications owing to their light-scattering properties. this study, LC were prepared by mixing nematic (E7) poly(9,9-di-n-octylfluorenyl-2,7-diyl) (PFO) as a gelator. The gel formed dense PFO network conc...

results mean operative time was shortest in group a (57.1 minutes) and longest in group b [63.4 (p = 0.131)]. mean hospital stay was shortest in group a (2.1 days) and longest in group c (5.7 days) (p = 0.003). hospital expenses were minimal in group a (p = 0.001). male sex, serum bilirubin level, white blood cell (wbc) count, duration of ercp/es procedure, contracted gall bladder and large cal...

Background: The glycoconjugate content of sperms indicates their physiological and fertility properties. Lectin reactivity is indicative of intact, capacitated, and acrosome-reacted sperms. In the epididymis, sperms experience maturation, glycoconjugate modification, and simultaneously, higher L-carnitine (LC) concentrations. The aim of this project was to evaluate the effects of LC and Pentoxi...

Introduction: Barrel cortex of rodents is responsible for sensory information processing from muzzle whiskers. Locus coeruleus (LC) as the main source of norepinephrine (NE) in the cortex, is effective on the sensory information processing. Methods: Rats were divided to 2 groups. One group underwent sensory deprivation (P4) and the other group served as control and did not undergo sensory d...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Daily amounts of sleep and wakefulness are accumulated in discrete bouts that exhibit distinct statistical properties. In adult mammals, sleep bout durations follow an exponential distribution whereas wake bout durations follow a power-law distribution. In infant Norway rats, however, wake bouts initially follow an exponential distribution and only transition to a power-law dis...

To get maximum power from Photo Voltaic (PV) panel, a DC-DC converter is operated with an active switched LC-network and fuzzy controller, which boosts the output voltage by utilizing Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT). In areas where solar energy abundant, PV systems offer low-cost source of electricity. Non-Polluting low maintenance are two advantages system. There several factors that can r...

In colloid liver scintigraphy, diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal liver disease such as chronic hepatitis or cirrhosis is evaluated by size and distortion of the liver, distribution of tracer in the liver, size and activities of tracer in the spleen, visualization of the bone marrow and so on. It is not difficult to read a scintigram which shows a typical pattern of normal, chronic hepatitis and ...

First examples of multichain (polycatenar) compounds, based on the π-conjugated [1]benzothieno[3,2-b]benzothiophene unit are designed, synthesized, and their soft self-assembly charge carrier mobility investigated. These terminated by new fan-shaped 2-brominated 3,4,5-trialkoxybenzoate moiety, form bicontinuous cubic liquid crystalline (LC) phases with helical network structure over extremely w...

This paper proposes a distributed multimedia delivery mobile network for video streaming in 3rd generation (3G) mobile communications. The joint design of layered coding (LC) and multiple description coding (MDC) is employed to address the bandwidth fluctuations and packet loss problems in the wireless network and to further enhance the error resilience tools in MPEG-4. A new Internet protocol ...