Natural killer (NK) cells are important mediators of anti-tumor immunity and are active against several hematologic malignancies, including multiple myeloma (MM). Umbilical cord blood (CB) is a promising source of allogeneic NK cells but large scale ex vivo expansion is required for generation of clinically relevant CB-derived NK (CB-NK) cell doses. Here we describe a novel strategy for expandi...

Pneumatic artificial muscles exhibit highly non-linear static characteristics especially due to inherent properties of their materials and compressibility of air. Therefore, it is difficult to control them without adequate modeling and simulation. The paper deals with the numerical approximation of the static characteristics of McKibben pneumatic artificial muscle. The muscle force dependence o...

Artificial compressibility methods aim to reduce the stiffness of compressible Navier-Stokes equations by artificially decreasing velocity acoustic waves in fluid. This approach has originally been developed as an alternative incompressible this avoids resolution a Poisson equation. paper extends method anisothermal low Mach number flows, allowing simulations subsonic flows submitted large temp...

The existence and uniqueness of adapted solutions to the backward stochastic Navier-Stokes equationwith artificial compressibility in two-dimensional bounded domains are shown byMintyBrowder monotonicity argument, finite-dimensional projections, and truncations. Continuity of the solutions with respect to terminal conditions is given, and the convergence of the system to an incompressible flow ...