This study investigated the birth of a brownbanded bamboo shark Chiloscyllium punctatum at the Steinhart Aquarium. Genetic analyses suggest this is the longest documented case of sperm storage for any species of shark (45 months).

There is a large demand for models able to predict the future capacity retention and internal resistance (IR) of Lithium-ion battery cells with as little testing possible. We provide data-centric model accurately predicting cell’s entire IR trajectory from one single cycle input data. This represents significant reduction in amount data needed over previous works. Our approach characterises cur...

PURPOSE Although post-void residual urine (PVR) is frequently utilized clinically in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), mainly because of its procedural simplicity, its role as a clinical prognostic factor, predictive of treatment goals, is still under much dispute. We investigated the predictive value of PVR for BPH-related clinical events including surgery, acute urinary retent...

Stability is an important issue for the application of resistive switching (RS) devices. In this work, the endurance and retention properties of Ag/CoOx/Ag interface-type RS device were investigated. This device exhibits rectifying I-V curve, multilevel storage states and retention decay behavior, which are all related to the Schottky barrier at the interface. The device can switch for thousand...

Many watershed models employ the Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) approach for runoff simulation based on soil and land use information. These implicitly assume that is generated by Hortonian process and; therefore, cannot correctly account effects of topography, variable source area (VSA) and/or moisture distribution in a watershed. This paper presents new distributed CN-VSA met...

A new mathematical treatment concerning the gradient elution in reversed-phase liquid chromatography when the volume fraction psi of an organic modifier in the water-organic mobile phase varies linearly with time is presented. The experimental ln k versus psi curve, where k is the retention factor under isocratic conditions in a binary mobile phase, is subdivided into a finite number of linear ...

This paper investigates the effect of soil moisture evaporation rate on water retention curve (SWRC) clays obtained using high-capacity tensiometer (HCT) technique and following continuous drying (dynamic) method. SWRC measurements, with without control, were carried out reconstituted London clay specimens 12 performance-improved HCTs recently developed at University Warwick. Furthermore, HCTs'...

Improved methods for attaching radioiodine to monoclonal antibodies have been developed. Ten aryl carbohydrate adducts were synthesized by the reductive amination of a carbohydrate with an aryl amine, using sodium cyanoborohydride as a reducing agent. After purification by chromatography and characterization by nuclear magnetic resonance they were iodinated using the chloramine-T method. Iodina...

Currently, there are no studies in the literature evaluating salivary fluoride retention after small amounts of fluoride gel are applied to children's teeth. Therefore, the objective of the present study was to compare salivary retention after gel application using a toothbrush or by traditional application with trays. In this crossover study, children with active caries (n = 10) were randomize...