Poly (lactic-co-glycolic) acid microspheres are amenable to a number of biomedical procedures that support delivery of cells, drugs, peptides or genes. Hydrophilisation or wetting of poly (lactic-co-glycolic) acid are an important pre-requisites for attachment of cells and can be achieved via exposure to plasma oxygen or nitrogen, surface hydrolysis with NaOH or chloric acid, immersion in ethan...

Abstract The higher water consumption in the flooding irrigation system has challenged rice cultivation. Applying management techniques that help to save and increase productivity is necessary deal with shortage. We evaluated growth, yield, consumption, responses genotypes techniques. experiment was arranged a split-plot design three replications at Rice Research Institute of Iran, Mazandaran. ...

Wetting phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and technology. A solid substrate exposed to the environment is almost invariably covered by a layer of fluid material. In this review, the surface forces that lead to wetting are considered, and the equilibrium surface coverage of a substrate in contact with a drop of liquid. Depending on the nature of the surface forces involved, different scenarios ...

The use of simple plasma treatments and polymer deposition to tailor the anisotropic wetting properties of one-dimensional (1D) submicrometer-scale grooved surfaces, fabricated using interferometric lithography in photoresist polymer films, is reported. Strongly anisotropic wetting phenomena are observed for as-prepared 1D grooved surfaces for both positive and negative photoresists. Low-pressu...

If new heavier W ’e and/or Z’s are discovered at the SSC, only partial information on their couplings to quarks and leptons can be obtained by studying their decays into electrons and muons. In particular, without polarired beams, one cannot distinguish between heavy W ’s which have left-handed (WL) or right-handed (W,) couplings to all fermions. Here, we study the r decays of WL and W, and com...

designing and scheduling of drip irrigation systems are often done without enough information about water distribution in the soil. due to tillage operations and crop production practices, agricultural soils can be considered as two layered soils with different bulk densities. the top soil layer has a lighter texture than the sub soil layer. in this research, the development of the wetting fron...

Skip furrow irrigation (SFI) can save water by irrigating every alternate furrow. Usually, irrigated furrows are alternated at each event under SFI. If fixed (permanent SFI, PSFI), more may be saved reducing the wetting area, and salts accumulate on dry side of ridge. Salt removal sheet, a method collecting sheet laid soil surface utilizing high evaporation demand in drylands, an efficient meas...

In dry season paddy farming, the alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation has potential to improve water productivity production decrease greenhouse gas (GHG), such as methane (CH4) nitrous oxide (N2O), emissions when compared continuous flooding (CF). Participatory on-farm trials were conducted from November 2017 April 2018 in Feni Chattogram districts of Bangladesh. Total 62 farmers at 4...