Flow cytometric analysis allows rapid single cell interrogation of surface and intracellular determinants by measuring fluorescence intensity of fluorophore-conjugated reagents. The availability of new platforms, allowing detection of increasing numbers of cell surface markers, has challenged the traditional technique of identifying cell populations by manual gating and resulted in a growing ne...

Growing environmental demands and higher fuel efficiency encourage the use of new light-weight load-bearing materials even for operation under rougher conditions. Consequently, as used in vital components chassis, brake system or exhaust are subjected to thermomechanical fatigue during due variable mechanical thermal loads, it is crucial design engineers CAE analysts understand cyclic behaviour...

Metallic seals can be resistant to air leakage, resistant to degradation under heat, and capable of carrying mechanical loads. Various technologies--such as organic solar cells and organic light emitting diodes--need, at least benefit from, such metallic seals. However, these technologies involve polymeric materials and can tolerate neither the high-temperature nor the high-pressure processes o...

The leading edges of the main rotor blades of a Wessex helicopter were artificially roughened to simulate light to moderate erosion of unprotected light alloy blades. Pitch link loads were measured in forward flight for various spanwise extents of leading-edge roughness, and the values of forward speed at which a pre-set limit of oscillatory pitch link load was reached were determined. This lim...

Plastic ingestion by adult Procellariiformes has been widely recorded, but few studies have evaluated intergenerational transfer. We assessed the prevalence of plastic particles, as well as their basic characteristics, in the gut content of dead Cory's shearwater fledglings stranded by light pollution on Canary Islands. Eighty-three percent of birds were affected, containing on average 8.0 plas...

Astudy was carried out with the objective of establishing heat and moisture loads in three commercial egg laying units in Alberta under winter conditions. The units studied were typical of triple-deck, deep-pit, and shallow-gutter, caged systems. Each unit was monitored for six 24-h periods over 4 mo. Adata acquisition system was used tocollect the data necessary to carry outa complete heat and...

This paper proposes an autonomous distributed algorithm that can construct spatial structures for clustering in mobile ad hoc networks. Since the topology of a mobile ad hoc network changes frequently, a fast, light-weight, and autonomous clustering mechanism is required. However, existing autonomous clustering mechanisms are based on differential equations and thus demand a lot of calculations...

Field oriented control (FOC) can provide an ability to rapidly and accurately control torque and speed of induction motors (IM). However, at lower than rated loads, which is a condition that many machines experience for significant portion of their service life, the efficiency is greatly reduced. This paper describes the use of supported vector machine (SVM) to optimize the efficiency of IM dri...

The suspension system is used to observe the vibrations from shock loads due to irregularities of the road surface. It is perform its function without impairing the stability, steering (or) general handling of the vehicle. Generally for light vehicles, coil springs are used as suspension system. A spring is an elastic object used to store mechanical energy and it can be twist, pulled (or) stret...

The proposed light-frame structure comprises steel columns for vertical loads and an innovative bracing system to efficiently resist seismic actions. This seismic force resisting system consists of a light timber frame braced with an Oriented Strand Board (OSB) sheet and an external technoprene plaster-infilled slab. Steel brackets are used as foundation and floor connections. Experimental cycl...