Why do bacteria have shape? Is morphology valuable or just a trivial secondary characteristic? Why should bacteria have one shape instead of another? Three broad considerations suggest that bacterial shapes are not accidental but are biologically important: cells adopt uniform morphologies from among a wide variety of possibilities, some cells modify their shape as conditions demand, and morpho...

We investigated the binocular properties of curvature-encoding mechanisms using the shape-frequency and shape-amplitude after-effects (or SFAE and SAAE). The SFAE and SAAE refer to the shifts observed in, respectively, the shape-frequency and shape-amplitude of a sinusoidal test contour following adaptation to a contour with different shape-frequency/shape-amplitude. We examined (i) the contrib...

Humans rely heavily on shape similarity among objects for object categorization and identification. Studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have shown that a large region in human occipitotemporal cortex processes the shape of meaningful as well as unfamiliar objects. Here, we investigate whether the functional organization of this region as measured with fMRI is related to p...

Alkylation of biphenyl with 1-octene was investigated using ((Al+C3H7Cl)+C2H4) catalysts. The catalytic activity of ((Al+C3H7Cl)+C2H4) for the alkylation was studied at different temperatures, mol ratios of biphenyl to 1-octene, reaction times and catalyst concentrations. It was shown that using this catalyst has more advantagous than another catalysts. Experiments show that by increasing t...

alkylation of biphenyl with 1-octene was investigated using ((al+c3h7cl)+c2h4) catalysts. the catalytic activity of ((al+c3h7cl)+c2h4) for the alkylation was studied at different temperatures, mol ratios of biphenyl to 1-octene, reaction times and catalyst concentrations. it was shown that using this catalyst has more advantagous than another catalysts. experiments show that by increasing tempe...

Shape memory (SM) materials have been widely investigated for several years. Most polymers present SM behaviour based on their thermo-mechanical properties. However, they are usually stimulated by an external heating source, hindering industrial application. The addition of carbon nanotubes (CNT) allows turning conventional into electro-active actuators. In this regard, the resistive Joule effe...