R. Moussa,1 S. Foteinopoulou,1 Lei Zhang,1,2 G. Tuttle,2 K. Guven,3 E. Ozbay,3 and C. M. Soukoulis1 1Ames Laboratory-USDOE and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA 2Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Microelectronics Research Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA 3Department of Physics, Bilkent University, Bilkent, 0...

Yonggang Liu 1,2,*, Jie Li 1, Ming Ye 2, Datong Qin 1, Yi Zhang 3 and Zhenzhen Lei 1 1 State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Transmissions & School of Automotive Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China; [email protected] (J.L.); [email protected] (D.Q.); [email protected] (Z.L.) 2 Key Laboratory of Advanced Manufacture Technology for Automobile Parts, Ministry of Education, Ch...

The aim of this study was to develop a formulation to improve the oral absorption of baicalin (BA) by combining a phospholipid complex (PC) and self-emulsifying microemulsion drug delivery system (SMEDDS), termed BA-PC-SMEDDS. BA-PC was prepared by a solvent evaporation method and evaluated by complexation percentage (CP). The physicochemical properties of BA-PC were determined. The synergistic...

In this paper, I critically assess Mark Richard’s interesting and important development of the claim that linguistic meanings can be fruitfully analogized with biological species. argue qua cluster interpretative presuppositions need not often do display population-level independence reproductive isolation is characteristic species concept. After developing these problems in some detail, close ...

Water-soluble bioadhesive polymers bearing multiple guanidinium ion (Gu) pendants at their side-chain termini (Gluen–BA, n 1⁄4 10 and 29) that were conjugated with benzamidine (BA) as a trypsin inhibitor were developed. The Gluen–BA molecules are supposed to adhere to oxyanionic regions of the trypsin surface, even in buffer, via a multivalent Gu/oxyanion salt-bridge interaction, such that thei...

In the first study, selective sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim blood agar (SXT-BA) and conventional blood agar (BA) plates incubated under CO2 and anaerobically were compared for their ability to recover group A streptococci from throat cultures. Recovery rates were: SXT-BA (anaerobic), 100%; SXT-BA (CO2), 98%; BA (anaerobic), 89.2%; and BA (CO2), 76.5%. Primary plate bacitracin test results could...

To my dearly loved wife, Haoxian, with whom enjoyable and difficult times were shared throughout this journey, and to my parents, Zhanfu and Xioumei, for their love and support through my life. iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to my advisors, Dr. Arunava Banerjee and Dr. Lei Zhou, for their invaluable guidance, support, and encouragement throughout m...