The use of SU-8 photoresist as a structuring material for portable capillary-flow cytometry devices has been restricted by the nearhydrophobic nature of the SU-8 surface. In this work, we evaluate the use of chemical and plasma treatments to render the SU-8 surface hydrophilic and characterise the resulting surface utilising a combination of techniques including contact angle goniometry, atomic...

The first implementation of a new programmable logic device using LUT(Look-Up Table) cascade architecture is developed in 0.35um CMOS logic process. Eight 64Kb asynchronous SRAMs are simply connected to form an LUT cascade with a few additional circuits. Benchmark results show that it has a competitive performance to FPGAs. 1. Introduction RAMs and PLAs (Programmable Logic Array) are used for p...

The chemical composition of the essential oils of flower at the pre-flowering, full-flowering and post-flowering stage of A. annua was analyzed by GC and GC/MS and sixty-two components were identified. The main compounds in the pre-flowering oil were β-myrcene (37.71%), 1, 8-cineole (16.11%) and camphor (14.97%). The full-flowering oil contained predominantly caryophyllene (19.4%), germacrene D...

Neuromorphic vision processor is an electronic implementation of vision algorithm processor on semiconductor. To image the world, a low-power CMOS image sensor array is required in the vision processor. The image sensor array is typically formed through photo diodes and analog to digital converter (ADC). To achieve low power acquisition, a low-power mid-resolution ADC is necessary. In this pape...

BACKGROUND Identifying molecular markers for tumor recurrence is critical in successfully selecting patients with stage III colon cancer who are more likely to benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy. The present study analyzed a subset of 10 polymorphisms within eight genes involved in the tumor angiogenesis pathway and their impact on prognosis in stage III colon cancer patients treated with adjuv...

germination stage is an important stage of plant growth stage that often is affected by environmental stress including water and salinity stresses including drought and salinity. in order to study germination characteristics of scrophularia striatain water and salinity stress conditions at different temperatures an experiment was conducted. temperatures regimes included 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 an...

In child phonology marked structures are frequently acquired first in relatively unmarked contexts. Four examples of this can be observed in the acquisition of Dutch syllable structure as reported by Levelt et al. (2000), a representative example of which is given in (1): onsetless syllables must initally be open (stage 3), as must syllables with complex onsets (stage 5); syllables with complex...

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