The constitutive equation for large elastic deformations is often used to model the mechanical response of soft tissue. This paper is concerned with the applications of the method of material identification to the determination of the strain energy density functions ( W) in such a mode, under the assumption that the tissue is incompressible and isotropic. It is shown that an identification expe...

Lymphedema can be an unfortunate side effect of cancer treatment. It is a chronic condition that, if ignored, can lead to disfigurement, immobilization, and severe infections. Several methods for assessing lymphedema are used in clinical practice, and some of these methods are reported in the literature. Although these methods can be useful and provide meaningful data, they also can be time con...

Many essential cellular functions depend on the assembly and disassembly of macromolecular complexes. The size, form, and distribution of these assemblies can be heterogeneous and complex, rendering their detailed characterization difficult. Here we describe a simple non-correlation-based method capable of directly measuring population distributions at very low sample concentrations. Specifical...

Dissolution pressure and nozzle temperature effects on particle size and distribution were investigated for RESS (Rapid Expansion of Supercritical Solution) process. Supercritical CO2 was used as solvent and Ibuprofen was applied as the model component in all runs. The resulting Ibuprofen nano-particles (about 50 nm in optimized runs) were analyzed by SEM and laser diffraction pa...

Luminescent inorganic nanoparticles are now widely studied for their applications as biological probes for in vitro or in vivo experiments. The functionalization of the particles is a key step toward these applications, since it determines the control of the coupling between the particles and the biological species of interest. This paper is devoted to the case of rare earth doped oxide nanopar...

A graph technique analogous to the usual Feynman technique in field theory is developed for calculating Green's functions for particles in a statistical system which under the action of an external field deviates to any arbitrary extent from the state of thermodynamic equilibrium. It is found that in order to describe such a system it is necessary to introduce two Green's functions for each typ...

This paper introduces the concept of size functions in galaxy morphology classification, which are geometrical-topological shape descriptors which can be tailor-made to describe the shapes of objects of interest. For the three main classes of galaxies obtained from the Hubble classification scheme, namely, elliptical, spiral and lenticular, the size functions are obtained from two sets of measu...

Digital holography is an effective 3D imaging technique, with the potential to be used for particle size measurements. A digital hologram can provide reconstructions of volume samples focused at different depths, overcoming the focusing problems encountered by other imaging based techniques. Several particle analysis methods discussed in the literature consider spherical particles only. With th...

Laser removal of small 1mm sized copper, gold and tungsten particles from silicon wafer surfaces was carried out using ultraviolet radiation at 266 nm generated by Nd:YAG harmonic generation. Successful removal of both copper and gold particles from the surface was achieved whereas tungsten particles proved to be difficult to remove. The cleaning efficiency was increased with an increase of las...

In this paper we extend the ladder proof of nonlocality without inequalities for two spin-half particles given by Boschi et al (Boschi D et al 1997 Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 2755) to the case in which the measurement settings of the apparatus measuring one of the particles are different from the measurement settings of the apparatus measuring the other particle. It is shown that, in any case, the pro...