Abstract Regarding severely deformed materials of potentially high applicability in various industry branches, their microstructure evolution during processing is vast significance as it enables to control or adjust the most essential properties, including mechanical strength corrosion resistance. Within present study, development commercially pure titanium (grade 2) multi-stage process hydrost...

We present a means of extracting lava dome extrusion rates from data provided by the Thematic Mapper and Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus instruments flown on the Landsat satellites. Extrusion rates derived from the Landsat data for Santiaguito dome complex (Guatemala) during November 1987 and January 2000 of 0.72€0.08 and 0.48€0.09 m3 s–1 compare favorably with ground-based estimates of 0.63€0.28...

In-situ TiB whisker-reinforced Ti-6Al-4V (TC4) titanium matrix composites (TiBw/TC4) with quasi-continuous networks were successfully fabricated by vacuum hot-pressing sintering. The effects of the hot-hydrostatic canned extrusion on stock utilization, microstructure and mechanical properties of the TiBw/TC4 composites were investigated. It was satisfactory that the utilization of composites co...

Previous studies have shown that the elevation of renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure by the direct expansion of renal interstitial volume increases urinary sodium excretion. The objective of the present study was to investigate whether proximal tubules respond to the elevated renal interstitial hydrostatic pressure and whether the inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis would alter the effec...

Cyclic hydrostatic pressure of physiological magnitude (< 10 MPa) stimulates chondrogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells, but mechanotransduction mechanisms are not well understood. It was hypothesized that an intact cytoskeleton would be required for uninhibited mechanotransduction of hydrostatic pressure. Therefore we examined the effects of drugs which selectively interfere with a...

Background: Studies of preimplantation stage embryos by classic cytogenetic techniques have limitations, starting with the need for good metaphase stage when only one third of all analyzed embryos may show good quality metaphases. The incidence of chromosome anomalies in embryos produced by in vitro procedures is generally higher than that of embryos formed in vivo. Pressure specifically affect...