1. Laboratório de Helmintoses Intestinais do Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou da Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. 2. Departamento de Patologia do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz/FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. Apoio financeiro: PAPES 2/FIOCRUZ. Endereço para correspondência: Dr. Omar S. Carvalho. Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou/FIOCRUZ. Av. Augusto de Lima 1715, Barro Preto, 30190-...

A CAD paradigm is presented to produce blow moulds for Poly Ethylene Terephthalate (PET) bottles decorated with ornamental patterns. This work integrates design and manufacturing of decorated blow moulds which, in turn, are utilized to blow PET bottles. The parametric geometric modeling techniques are employed to customize a CAD system, tailoring to suit the requirements of the bottle making in...

Metal nanoparticle-decorated carbon spheres (mn-CSs) are prepared by combining one-pot hydrothermal synthesis and post-synthesis modification. The former sol-gel type process is employed to obtain heteroatom-containing polymer spheres (PSs), which easily attract metal species that, during thermal treatment, are initially converted to nanoparticle-decorated PSs and finally to mn-CSs.

• Ti 3 C 2 -MXene/TiO materials have been synthesized employing in-situ hydrolysis of TiO . The conformal coating on inner and outer surfaces MXene was achieved. With high electronic conductivity, acts as a host material for anode resulted in considerable improvement electrochemical performance. has the potential to be viable high-power lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, lower conductivity ...

Abstract. In the last decades, ICT strongly support cultural heritage conservation, management, valorisation and communication activities. Digital systems record series of data in real time, facilitating automation comparison, control preventive evaluation activities aimed at conscious management phenomenal reality based on interrelationship between different information. According to these pre...

The encapsulation of living cells is appealing for its various applications to cell-based sensors, bioreactors, biocatalysts, and bioenergy. In this work, we introduce the encapsulation of multiple microalgal cells in hollow polymer shells of rhombohedral shape by the following sequential processes: embedding of microalgae in CaCO₃ crystals; layer-by-layer (LbL) coating of polyelectrolytes; and...

We define and compute higher rank analogs of PandharipandeThomas stable pair invariants in primitive classes for K3 surfaces. Higher rank stable pair invariants for Calabi-Yau threefolds have been defined by Sheshmani [She11b, She11a] using moduli of pairs of the form On → F for F purely one-dimensional and computed via wall-crossing techniques. These invariants may be thought of as virtually c...

Tetrahexahedral Pt nanocrystals (THH Pt NCs), bound by high index facets, belong to an emerging class of nanomaterials that promise to bridge the gap between model and practical electrocatalysts. The atomically stepped surfaces of THH Pt NCs are extremely active for the electrooxidation of small organic molecules but they also readily accommodate the dissociative chemisorption of such species, ...

Cells expressing the NG2 proteoglycan can attach, spread, and migrate on surfaces coated with NG2 mAbs, demonstrating that engagement of NG2 can trigger the cytoskeletal rearrangements necessary for changes in cell morphology and motility. Engagement of different epitopes of the proteoglycan results in distinct forms of actin reorganization. On mAb D120, the cells contain radial actin spikes ch...