The purpose of this study was to examine reliability and validity of a new method of measuring hand size in which a tape measure is wrapped around the hand in a figure-of-eight pattern. In the first experiment, two testers measured hand size in 60 individuals with no recent history of injury or surgery. Intraclass correlation coefficients of 0.99 and 0.97 indicated high intratester and intertes...

A fully integrated microfluidic sorter is introduced. It is able to count, characterize and sort micrometer sized particles and cells. All functions of the device are performed by light. The objects to be sorted are counted optically, they are characterized by measuring their fluorescence. Even the sorting itself, directing the particles into different channels is performed by the pressure of l...

In boron neutron capture therapy, the total absorbed dose is sum of four components with different relative biological effectiveness (RBE): dose, “nitrogen” fast and γ-ray dose. We present a new approach for measuring first three doses. this work, we provide details method measurement results when proposed employed.

backgrounds: subclinical ketosis can cause greater economic loss due to a lack of clinical symptoms. objectives: the present study was aimed to design a chemical method for measuring serum ketone bodies in the affected subclinical cows. methods: acetoacetate concentrations were measured using a nitroprusside reaction and b-hydroxy butyric acid (bhba) which was oxidized to acetoacetate using nan...

The approach to the analysis of the dynamic of non-equilibrium open systems within the framework of the laws of classical mechanics on the example of a hard-disks is offered. This approach was based on Hamilton and Liouville generalized equations which was deduced for the subsystems of the nonequilibrium system. With the help of generalized Liouville equation it was obtained that two types of d...

The potential health effects of inhaled engineered nanoparticles are almost unknown. To avoid and replace toxicity studies with animals, a triple cell co-culture system composed of epithelial cells, macrophages and dendritic cells was established, which simulates the most important barrier functions of the epithelial airway. Using this model, the toxic potential of titanium dioxide was assessed...

In this article, we introduce a novel geometrical index δagg, which is associated with the Euler number and is obtained by an image processing procedure for a given digital picture of aggregated particles such that δagg exhibits the degree of the agglomerations of the particles. In the previous work (Matsutani, Shimosako, Wang, Appl. Math. Modeling 37 (2013), 4007–4022), we proposed an algorith...