Power transmission covering long-distances has shifted from overhead high voltage cables to underground power cable systems due numerous failures under severe weather conditions and electromagnetic pollution. The are limited by the melting point of insulator around conductor, which depends on surrounding soils’ heat transfer capacity or thermal conductivity. In past, numerical theoretical studi...

In this study we determine constitutive relations (relations between saturation, hydraulic conductivity and pressure head) for unsaturated fractured rocks using a computational procedure that mimics the laboratory technique of measurement. Isotropic three-dimensional rock samples with random vertical and horizontal fractures are computationally constructed. Each fracture is conceptualized as a ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading global cause of death, accounting for 17.3 million deaths per year. Preventive treatment that reduces CVD by even a small percentage can substantially reduce, nationally and globally, the number of people who develop CVD and the costs of caring for them. This American Heart Association presidential advisory on dietary fats and CVD reviews and discusse...

Chronic exposure of pancreatic beta-cells to long-chain fatty acids can cause loss of secretory function and enhanced apoptosis by a process of 'lipotoxicity', which may be a contributory factor to the rising incidence of Type 2 diabetes in humans. However, when incubated in vitro, beta-cells respond differentially to long-chain saturated and mono-unsaturated fatty acids, suggesting that these ...

We have investigated the ability of dual-frequency Coherent Antistokes Raman Scattering (D-CARS) micro-spectroscopy, based on femtosecond pulses (100 fs or 5 fs) spectrally focussed by glass dispersion, to distinguish the chemical composition of micron-sized lipid droplets consisting of different triglycerides types (poly-unsaturated glyceryl trilinolenate, mono-unsaturated glyceryl trioleate a...

We introduced efficient incorporation of unsaturated fatty acids into volicitin [N-(17-hydroxylinolenoyl)-L-glutamine] and N-linolenoyl-L-glutamine, insect-derived elicitors of plant volatiles, in the common cutworms Spodoptera litura by the incubation of larval gut tissues with unsaturated (linolenic, linoleic, and oleic acids) or saturated fatty acids (palmitic and stearic acids) sodium salt,...

Superabsorbent polymers (hydrogels) have been studied for their ability to influence soil hydraulic conductivity because they can store and release water due swelling properties. However, concerns related the increased use of synthetic hydrogels necessitates a switch bio-based hydrogels, which are renewable more biodegradable in comparison hydrogels. In this study, we synthesized lignin-based h...

Electroantennograms (EAGs) were recorded from unmated, laboratory-reared, male and female oriental fruit flies, Dacus dorsalis, in response to a range of between C~ and Cl2 carbon chain-length saturated and unaturated aliphatic alcohols and aldehydes, most all of which are known host-plant volatiles. Only two of the 35 compounds tested elicited significantly larger EAGs from female than male an...