De Bock K, Dresselaers T, Kiens B, Richter EA, Van Hecke P, Hespel P. Evaluation of intramyocellular lipid breakdown during exercise by biochemical assay, NMR spectroscopy, and Oil Red O staining. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 293: E428–E434, 2007. First published April 10, 2007; doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00112.2007.— The study compared the net decline of intramyocellular lipids (IMCL) during exercis...

Certain enzymatic and structural features of myosin, purified from rat skeletal muscles representative of the fast twitch glycolytic (type IIb), the fast twitch oxidative (type IIa), and the slow twitch oxidative (type I) fiber, were determined and the results were compared with the measured contractile properties. Good correlation was found between the shortening velocities and Caz+-activated ...

Upconversion of 650 nm red light in Tml+ doped fluoride glasses results in the emission of blue light at 450 and 480 nm from the transitions (' D2 ->3 H4) and (' G4 ->3H6) respectively. The utilization of this effect in a blue upconversion fiber laser (UFL) device suited to high density optical recording (HOOR) has been the motivation for discussing various material properties and device parame...

In this study, we analyzed the rickshaw (Owned by Daegu Modern History Museum) measuring each material. The purpose of study was to identify materials in modern cultural assets that utilize a variety complex way, and establish basic data for preservation management. Using portable X-ray fluorescence analyzers (P-XRF), species identification, fiber paint film analysis (microscope observation, SE...

We give a theoretical treatment of the force exerted by a fluctuating membrane on a polymer rod tip, taking into account the effects of an underlying biological cytoskeleton by way of a simple harmonic dependence on displacement. We also consider theoretically and experimentally the dynamics of a growing fiber tip under the influence of such a fluctuation-induced membrane force, including the e...

A fiber optic chlorine gas sensor working on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technique fabricated using coatings of silver and zinc oxide films over unclad core of the optical fiber is reported. The sensor probe is characterized using wavelength interrogation and recording SPR spectra for different concentrations of chlorine gas around the probe. A red shift is observed in the resonance wavelen...

Simultaneous multispectral generation in 0.8, 1.0, and 1.3 μm wavelength ranges by efficient energy conversions of 1.0 μm wavelength femtosecond pulses through a nonlinear fiber was reported. The output spectral range of this multispectral light source was composed of 0.6-0.9 μm blue-shifted Cherenkov radiation (CR), 1.0 μm residual pump, and 1.1-1.7 μm red-shifted soliton self-frequency shift ...

In this article, a novel BiVO4@fibers composite photocatalyst was prepared by a process that monoclinic scheelite BiVO4 nano/micro particles were in situ formated onto fiber materials. The structure, morphology and photophysical properties of the composite materials were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, re...

We propose and optimize theoretically a supercontinuum (SC) laser source in the mid-IR based on using As-SeTe/As-S core/clad step-index fibers and a femtosecond all-fiber laser system at 2 μm. Numerically simulated spectra extending from ~1 μm to more than 8 μm are demonstrated for pump energy of order 100 pJ in a fiber with a core diameter of 2 μm. To the best of our knowledge, the possibility...