Potato protein isolate (PPI) was studied as a source for bio-based polymer films. The objective of this study was the determination of the packaging-relevant properties, including the mechanical properties and barrier performance, of casted potato protein films. Furthermore, the films were analyzed for cross-linking properties depending on the plasticizer concentration, and compared with whey p...

• Thermo-mechanical properties of dynamically cross-linked epoxy resins are studied. The effect cross-linking bonds on the is estimated quantitatively. vibration density states calculated to analyze physical mechanisms. Epoxy widely used polymer matrices for numerous applications. Despite substantial advances, molecular-level knowledge-base required exploit these materials their full potential ...

the aim of this study was to develop an extended-release tablet formulation using a new in situ cross-linking method. the effects of polyvalent cations on theophylline release from tablets made with the polyanionic polymers sodium alginate and sodium carboxymethylcellulose, were investigated. different miliequivalents of the di and tri-valent cation, ca2+ and al3+, were added to tablet formulat...

purpose: to evaluate densitometry of crystalline lens after cxl procedure in keratoconic patients. methods: in a quasi-experimental study three-dimensional lens densitometry was performed by pentacam scheimpflug camera at base line and 6 months later. subject group contained patients with diagnosed progressive keratoconus who underwent cxl surgery (n = 40). control group contained aged-matched ...

purpose: to evaluate the effectiveness of corneal collagen cross-linking with uv-a and riboflavin (cxl) for treatment of refractory herpes simplex virus necrotizing keratitis. case reports: two patients with a diagnosis of hsv necrotizing stromal keratitis referred to khalili hospital eye emergency room and who were resistant to conventional treatment underwent cxl. response to treatment was ev...

background chitosan is a naturally occurring biopolymer which has been widely used in a variety of biomedical applications including local antibiotic delivery due to its excellent mechanical properties, biodegradability and biocompatibility. beads are spherical, porous carriers which are prepared from various materials including chitosan. objectives the current study aimed to fabricate a new co...

We describe an efficient way to create a test collection for evaluating the accuracy of cross-language entity linking. Queries are created by semiautomatically identifying person names on the English side of a parallel corpus, using judgments obtained through crowdsourcing to identify the entity corresponding to the name, and projecting the English name onto the non-English document using word ...