As the important role of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in meeting world’s energy requirement is growing, use nanoparticles lieu of, or combination with, existing EOR agents to expand EOR’s applicable range receiving significant attention. Two most actively investigated applications are: 1) wettability alteration by addition into waterflood injection water, and 2) nanoparticle-stabilized Pickering...

MOTIVATION The O-ring theory reveals that the binding hot spot at a protein interface is surrounded by a ring of residues that are energetically less important than the residues in the hot spot. As this ring of residues is served to occlude water molecules from the hot spot, the O-ring theory is also called 'water exclusion' hypothesis. We propose a 'double water exclusion' hypothesis to refine...

Multiple narrow beams' transmitters have been shown to improve the performance of the indoor optical wireless channels by a remarkable higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and a lower signal delay spread over the conventional diffuse transmitters, especially at weak locations (when the transceivers have the highest separation distance). Further performance improvement is attained through the use ...

A 24-year-old woman presented with asymptomatic hyperpigmented bilateral patches on her temples, eyelids and forehead since birth. Furthermore, the patient had a congenital grey patch, compatible with Mongolian spot, on her buttock. She had no vascular or other cutaneous lesion. Histopathologic examination revealed bipolar dendritic melanocytes dispersed in a ribbon-like pattern between the col...

Blood spot 17-hydroxyprogesterone concentrations were measured serially over 24 hours in patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency before they started treatment with glucocorticoids, and the development of diurnal rhythm in pituitary-adrenal activity was studied. Five infants aged 2 to 26 days showed an intradiem variation of 17-hydroxyprogesterone concentrat...

drought stress in plants, the change (increase or decrease) in the production of plant proteins. proteomics in recent years one of the most powerful tools that help us to study the changes in protein in order to investigate the proteome of wheat leaves in response to terminal drought, two genotypes susceptible and resistant wheat genotypes were evaluated under irrigated (non-stress) and rain-fe...

Multi-spot optics are applied for process parallelizing if the demand on throughput in mass production rises or large areas of material have to be processed. We investigate the usage of microlens arrays as multifunctional elements for forming an arbitrary shaped laser beam into a spot-, a ring-spotor a line-array pattern. It can be shown that the intensity distribution of each spot is equal to ...

This paper describes a determination of critical gas saturations and relative permeabilities relevant to the depressurisation of two North Sea fields. A series of reservoir condition coreflood experiments and associated numerical simulations is described. Four experiments were conducted with aged cores and fluids and each comprised of a waterflood, followed by depressurisation at different rate...