For a PEMFC to work better, adding baffles flow channel can improve reactant transfer. As result, the starts by developing 3-D numerical model for vanadium redox battery (VRFB) using COMSOL Multiphysic Simulation Software. By incorporating into serpentine channel, it is possible simulate changes in ion concentration and terminal voltage. The findings indicate that efficiency will be impacted ba...

Parvoviruses were isolated from Python regius and Boa constrictor snakes and propagated in viper heart (VH-2) and iguana heart (IgH-2) cells. The full-length genome of a snake parvovirus was cloned and both strands were sequenced. The organization of the 4432-nt-long genome was found to be typical of parvoviruses. This genome was flanked by inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) of 154 nt, containing...

In 1994 Grünbaum showed that, given a point set S in R, it is always possible to construct a polyhedron whose vertices are exactly S. Such a polyhedron is called a polyhedronization of S. Agarwal et al. extended this work in 2008 by showing that there always exists a polyhedronization that can be decomposed into a union of tetrahedra (tetrahedralizable). In the same work they introduced the not...

Tectonic inclusions within the New Idria serpentine body contain jadeite in two distinct assemblages: (1) Lenslike inclusions containing a monomineralic green jadeite core surrounded by a calc-silicate rim. (2) Jadeite veins cross-cutting albite-crossite schist inclusions. In these veins jadeite coexists with low albite; green jadeite (Jd 75 Ac+Di+He 25) coexists with low albite within the host...

Excess fluoride in water causes health hazards to the natural environment. The removal of fluoride was attempted using natural materials such as red soil, charcoal, brick, fly-ash and serpentine. Each material was set up in a column for a known volume and the defluoridation capacities of these materials were studied with respect to time. According to the maximum defluoridation capacity these ma...

Frizzled (Fz) proteins are serpentine receptors that transduce critical cellular signals during development. Serpentine receptors usually signal to downstream effectors through an associated trimeric G protein complex. However, clear evidence for the role of trimeric G protein complexes for the Fz family of receptors has hitherto been lacking. Here, we show roles for the Galpha(o) subunit (Go) ...

This chapter presents construction, control, advantages and disadvantages of various pneumatic actuators we have been using in several projects of climbing, walking and serpentine robots during last 13 years. We start with qualitative and quantitative analysis of different actuators. This part is mostly based on the literature review but augmented with our own experience related to these partic...

Low-loss microwave microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) shunt switches are reported that utilize highly compliant serpentine spring folded suspensions together with large area capacitive actuators to achieve low actuation voltages while maintaining sufficient off-state isolation. The RF MEMS switches were fabricated via a surface micromachining process using PI2545 Polyimide 1 as the sacrifici...