Ocean acidification is expected to impact the high latitude oceans first, as CO 2 dissolves more easily in colder waters. At current rate of anthropogenic emissions, sub-Antarctic Zone will start experience undersaturated conditions with respect aragonite within next few decades, which affect marine calcifying organisms. Shelled pteropods, a group zooplankton, are considered be especially sensi...

Introduction: Nanoparticles have several exciting applications in various fields of biomedicine. It has been found that among different classes of nanoparticles core/shell is most promising for field of nano-medical imaging and therapy due to their distinct advantages. The core/shell type nanoparticles can be generally comprising of two nanoparticles one act as a core (inner ma...

The development of noble-metal free electrocatalysts is high importance for clean energy conversion applications. MoS$_2$ has been considered as a promising low cost catalyst the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), however its activity limited by poor conductivity and abundance active sites. Moreover, suitability an effective other reactions, in particluar oxygen reduction (ORR), was hardly expl...

Embrittlement of many important metal alloys has been related to the accumulation of undesirable materials at grain boundaries, a condition which may be detectable through measurement of ultrasonic scattering from the material’s microstructure. Grains with decorated grain boundaries are modeled as shelled microspheres embedded in an isotropic elastic host, and a practical means of predicting sc...

In Difflugia corona, a free-living amoeboid cell, locomotion is hampered by a heavy shell or test made of sand grains and other debris. Locomotion involves pseudopod extension, attachment to the substratum, and forcible pseudopod retraction which pulls the shelled cell body forward. When observed through a polarizing microscope, the extending pseudopodia appear isotropic or very weakly birefrin...

Sedentary, shallow-water marine invertebrates have many ways to cope with environmental stress. In responding to salinity changes, for example, marine bivalves and gastropods typically use their shells as barriers: bivalves simply close their valves (Shumway 1977; Djangmah et al. 1979), while some gastropods can adhere tightly to a hard substrate (Fretter 1984; Chaparro et al. 2011), thereby is...

The number of elevator facilities with laboratories to test shelled corn for aflatoxin on site is increasing. The inherent difficulty in accurately determining the true aflatoxin concentration of a lot of corn may have serious implications. Deviations from the true value are of even greater significance at busy locations where a high throughput is desired. This study was instituted to measure (...

Rotavirus morphogenesis involves the budding of subviral particles through the rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER) membrane of infected cells. During this process, particles acquire the outer capsid proteins and a transient envelope. Previous immunocytochemical and biochemical studies have suggested that a rotavirus nonstructural glycoprotein, NS28, encoded by genome segment 10, is a transmembran...