In 1940 T'ang and Wang (1) measured the erythrocyte sedimentation rate and the plasma viscosity in 176 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 56 cases of tuberculosis of other organs. These writers concluded from their data that the plasma viscosity determination may be a more sensitive test for activity of tuberculosis than the sedimentation rate. Independently, in 1942, Whittington (2) in a stud...

The TA-XT21 texture analyzer (TA) was used to evaluate vitelline membrane strength (VMS). Fresh and aged (1 wk at 25 C) eggs (n = 48 eggs x 2 replications) were evaluated. Fresh and aged eggs were further divided into two groups of yolk only or whole egg (with intact albumen). Yolk index, Haugh units, pH, broken-out egg weights, VMS, yolk viscosity, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images...

Due to the increasingly wide application of electroosmotic flow in micromachines, this paper investigates the electroosmotic flow of the power-law fluid under high zeta potential in a cylindrical microcapillary for different dimensionless parameters. The electric potential distribution inside a cylindrical microcapillary is presented by the complete Poisson-Boltzmann equation applicable to an a...

Foam viscosity is a key property to predict the foam flow in narrow channels and porous media. In this study, we investigated effects of quality temperature on dynamic how modifying composition colloidal system can alter rheology. It was shown that addition nanoparticles polymer improve stability at high-temperature conditions increase apparent viscosity. The results confirmed be predicted usin...

Disturbances of the microcirculation and abnormal hemorheological properties are important factors that play an important role in disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) and result in organ dysfunction or failure. In the present study, we established an animal model of DIC using intravenous Dextran 500 in rats, and used exogenous normal lymph corresponding to 1/15 of whole blood volume for...

Introduction: Reports concerning the association of physical activity with markers of inflammation, coagulation, and fibrinolysis are ambiguous. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of 4 weeks of combined decomposedsit-up and walking training with two different volumes onfibrinogen, plasma viscosity and insulin resistance index (HOMA-IR) in college, young men. Methods: In this semi...

SUMMARY We present a program to improve haplotype reconstruction by incorporating information from paired-end reads, and demonstrate its utility on simulated data. We find that given a fixed coverage, longer reads (implying fewer of them) are preferable. AVAILABILITY The executable and user manual can be freely downloaded from ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/zn1/HI.