Semecarpus anacardium L. is a tree species which produces secondary metabolites of medicinal importance. Roots of the plant have been traditionally used in folk medicines. Different strains of Agrobacterium rhizogenes (A4, ATCC15834 and LBA 9402) were used for induction of hairy roots in in vitro grown tissues of the plant. Hairy root initiation was observed after 25-30 days of infection. Optim...

in this work, a novel electrochemical technique is presented for determination of bentazonusing a nanocomposite based sensor and continuous coulometric fast fourier transformation cyclicvoltammetry (ccfftcv). in this method, the sensor response is in coulomb and is calculated based onintegrating charge changes under the current voltammogram in selected potential range. the new sensor wasconstru...

Transformation optics represents a new paradigm for designing light-manipulating devices, such as cloaks and field concentrators, through the engineering of electromagnetic space using materials with spatially variable parameters. Here we analyse liquid flowing in an optofluidic waveguide as a new type of controllable transformation optics medium. We show that a laminar liquid flow in an optofl...

Thermal processing with heat exchangers is a widely-used method for improving the safety and extending the shelf life of many liquid food products (milk, juices, etc). It is also employed for inducing transformation of selected food constituents, like starch, as a way to promote food characteristics which are appreciated by consumers, like texture. Fluid flow, heat transfer and transformation p...

A q-plate is a stratified medium composed of a uniaxial nematic liquid crystal with an inhomogeneous orientation of the optical axis possessing a topological charge q, which looks promising as a switching device. This work reports an approach to diagonalizing the dielectric tensor in q-plates, giving a detailed study of nontrivial tensor coordinate transformations. The relationship between the ...

Transformation of deuterated ethanol from supercooled liquid into a plastic crystal or rotator phase is investigated by means of a particular experimental setup combining simultaneously dielectric spectroscopy with neutron diffraction techniques. We demonstrate that, previous to the growth of the bcc lattice of the plastic crystal phase, the formation of a precursor or intermediate phase throug...