Objectives: The decontamination or physical removal of contaminants from personal protective equipment upon exit from high containment laboratories is crucial to maintain containment and safety of laboratory workers. The current methodology for exiting from high-containment level 4 (CL-4) laboratory calls for laboratory personnel to decontaminate their worn positive pressure suits via “mechanic...

Solitons are nonlinear waves present in diverse physical systems including plasmas, water surfaces and optics. In silicon, the presence of two photon absorption and accompanying free carriers strongly perturb the canonical dynamics of optical solitons. Here we report the first experimental demonstration of soliton-effect pulse compression of picosecond pulses in silicon, despite two photon abso...

The problem of analysing operational policies for transhipping containers in a port container terminal is studied using an agent-based simulation approach. The decision makers involved in transhipment operations, i.e., the terminal manager, the port captain, the stevedores and the ship captains, as well as some of the operators of the physical resources, such as cranes and straddle carriers, ar...

Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have attracted special interest during last few decades. Solid lipid nanoparticles (SLNs) and nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs) are two major types of Lipid-based nanoparticles. SLNs were developed to overcome the limitations of other colloidal carriers, such as emulsions, liposomes and polymeric nanoparticles because they have advantages like good release profile ...

scid is a lethal genetic autosomal recessive disorder that has been observed in humans, dogs, mice, and horses. affected animals are incapable of generating specific antigens for immune responses needed to protect them from infectious diseases. the frequency of affected recessive allele varies in different regions so that the outcome of normal breeding with carriers of recessive alleles is diff...

The objective of the research was to prepare Fe-based materials for use as oxygen carriers (OCs) and investigate their reactivity in terms applicability energy systems. performance ZrO2 supported Fe-Mn oxide with hydrogen/air an innovative combustion technology known chemical looping (CLC) analyzed. influence manganese addition (15–30 wt.%) on other physical properties discussed. Thermogravimet...

Title: EXERCISE BEHAVIOR AND MAINTENANCE OF CEREBRAL CORTICAL ACTIVITY DURING COGNITIVE CHALLENGE IN MIDDLE-AGED MEN AND WOMEN GENETICALLY AT RISK FOR DEMENTIA: A MEGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHIC STUDY Sean Patrick Deeny, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Directed By: Professor Brad Hatfield, Department of Kinesiology Exercise is known to protect and enhance cognitive function in normal aging through increased...

The stationary differential heat and mass transfer equation with discontinuous coefficients describes various time-independent physical processes, for example, the distribution of minority carriers from a source in an inhomogeneous or multilayer structure. In this paper, we apply matrix method finite-difference modeling charge generated by kilovolt electrons semiconductor materials. efficiency ...

Physical properties of thin films significantly differ from those of bulk materials. Also, these properties are influenced from the technological parameters of the films deposition technique. Therefore, characterization methods for evaluation of thin film properties become of high importance. A novel approach to the well-known "Hot-Probe" method is proposed and applied in our work. The conventi...

In this article we will be concerned with some possible physical realizations of quantum gates that are useful for quantum information processing. After a brief introduction into the subject, in Sec. 2 we will focus on a particular way of using atoms in one-dimensional optical lattices as carriers of the quantum information. In Sec. 3 on the contrary, the information carriers will be photons th...