Sorting of rocks, boulders, and silt/sand-sized particles according to their size is a characteristic feature debris flow deposits an active process during which significantly affects the mobility. The degree at sorting occurs in flows depends on relative magnitudes granular processes such as particle segregation diffusion. Since are fluid-saturated phenomena, accurate modelling requires unders...

Background and Objectives: The inability of classic fluorescence-activated cell sorting to single cancer cell sorting is one of the most significant drawbacks of this method. The sorting of cancer cells in microdroplets significantly influences our ability to analyze cancer cell proteins. Material and Methods: We adapted a developed microfluidic device as a 3D in vitro model to sorted MCF-7 c...

Cell surface carbohydrates play important roles in cell recognition mechanisms. Recently, we provided evidence that particle selection by suspension-feeding bivalves can be mediated by interactions between carbohydrates associated with the particle surface and lectins present in mucus covering bivalve feeding organs. In this study, we used lectins tagged with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) t...

A DEM-CFD (discrete element method - computational fluid dynamics) model of an optical belt sorter was extensively compared with experiments a laboratory-scale to assess the model's accuracy. Brick and sand-lime brick were considered as materials. First, transport characteristics on conveyor belt, involving mass flow, lateral particle distribution proximity, compared. Second, sorting results be...

The directed transport of micro-particles depending on their size is the basis for particle sorting methods that are of utmost importance in life sciences, e.g. A drift ratchet is a Brownian motor that allows for such a directed transport. Hereby, the particle motion is induced by a combination of the Brownian motion and asymmetries stemming for example from the domain’s geometry, electrical fi...

A hybrid particulate swarm optimization (hybrid) combination of an algorithm the particle and a variable neighborhood search is proposed for multi-objective permutation flow shop scheduling problem (PFSP) with smallest cumulative completion time total time. Algorithm (HPSO) applied to maintain fair centralized decentralized search. The Nawaz-Enscore-Ham )NEH) heuristic in this used initialize p...

This project aims to re-assess our understanding of the shape fluvial bedload gravels by drawing together existing information on gravel shape. At its crux, however, is interpretation a large, high-quality set measurements made from Sabeto River western Viti Levu, Fiji. work reveals that apparent simplicity displayed most studies downstream rounding disguises complex pattern stepwise reversals ...