Purpose – The paper’s aim is to show the development of materials and methods which allow freeform fabrication of macroscopic Zn-air electrochemical batteries. Freedom of geometric design may allow for new possibilities in performance optimization. Design/methodology/approach – The authors have formulated battery materials which are compatible with solid freeform fabrication (SFF) while retaini...

Background Infant feeding may consist of direct breastfeeding (DBF), pumping and bottle feeding (P&F), formula feeding (FF), solid food feeding (SFF), and any combination. An accurate evaluation of infant feeding requires descriptions of different patterns, consistency, and transition over time. Methods In United States of America, the Infant Feeding Practice Study II collected information on...

In this study, we investigate the relationship between the star formation rate (SFR) and AGN luminosity (LAGN) for ∼2000 X-ray detected AGN. The AGN span over three orders of magnitude in X-ray luminosity (1042 <L2−8 keV < 1045.5 erg s−1) and are in the redshift range z = 0.2–2.5. Using infrared (IR) photometry (8–500 μm), including deblended Spitzer and Herschel images and taking into account ...

The local power law relationship between the surface densities of neutral hydrogen gas and star formation rate (SFR) can be used to explore the SFR properties of damped Lyman α (DLA) systems at higher redshift. We find that while the SFR densities for DLA systems are consistent with luminous star forming galaxies at redshifts below z ≈ 0.6, at higher redshifts their SFR density is too low for t...

This study was conducted to generate and validate a cross-culturally adapted Korean version of the xerostomia inventory (XI), an 11-item questionnaire designed to measure the severity of xerostomia. The original English version of the XI was translated into Korean according to the guidelines for cross-cultural adaptation of health-related quality-of-life measures. Among a prospective cohort of ...

Using a simple model of molecular cloud evolution, we have quantitatively estimated the change of star formation rate (SFR) of a disk galaxy falling radially into the potential well of a cluster of galaxies. The SFR is affected by the ram-pressure from the intracluster medium (ICM). As the galaxy approaches the cluster center, the SFR increases to twice the initial value, at most, in a cluster ...

Urinary stone is a worldwide disease and percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is the most commonly used operation for staghorn calculi. Research indicated that SFR for staghorn calculi in one stage of PCNL showed 50%-91% results, under standard operation, standard instrument and professional treatment route. The present study aimed to explore the clinical factors of stone free rates (SFR) after ...

We measure the evolution of the [O II] λ3727 luminosity function at 0.75 < z < 1.45 using highresolution spectroscopy of ∼ 14, 000 galaxies observed by the DEEP2 galaxy redshift survey. We find that brighter than L[OII] = 10 42 erg s the luminosity function is well-represented by a power law dN/dL ∝ L with slope α ∼ −3. The number density of [O II]-emitting galaxies above this luminosity declin...

A major challenge in tissue engineering is the generation of cell-seeded implants with structures that mimic native tissue, both in anatomic geometries and intratissue cell distributions. By combining the strengths of injection molding tissue engineering with those of Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF), three-dimensional preseeded implants were fabricated without custom-tooling, enabling efficien...