purpose: to develop a nanofibrous polycaprolacton (pcl) substrate for limbal stem cell (lsc) expansion that can serve as a potential alternative substrate to replace human amniotic membrane. methods: the human limbal stem cells (lscs) were used to evaluate the biocompatibility of substrates (nanofibrous scaffold, and human amniotic membrane) regarding cellular phenotypic profile, viability, pro...

copper films (250 nm) deposited on glass substrates, at different substrate temperatures. their optical properties were measured by ellipsometery (single wavelength of 589.3 nm) and spectrophotometery in the spectral range of 200–2600 nm. kramers kronig method was used for the analysis of the reflectivity curves of cu films to obtain the optical constants of the films, while ellipsometery measu...

objective: hydrostatic pressure is crucial component of cell environment and fundamental physical quantity, also it is the main factor of both cell integrity and function. pressure variation disorder, beyond physiological limits, may lead to pathological states. in this study, we examined the effect of hydrostatic pressure on apoptosis induction, viability, morphology, adhesion potency to subst...

We report an experimental study on optical and magneto-optical properties of Cesubstituted yttrium iron garnet thin films incorporating gold nanoparticles. Au nanoparticles were formed by heating Au thin film on cubic quartz and garnet substrate in vacuum chamber and a Ce:YIG layer was deposited on them by the aid of Pulsed laser deposition method. A large enhancement of the longitudinal Kerr e...

in order to determine the best growing media for gerbera jamesonii under alkaline conditions, a factorial experiment was conducted with two factors, namely: (i) growing medium, and (ii) concentrations of bicarbonate (nahco3) in nutrient solution. results showed that increasing the concentration of nahco3 from 0 to 40 mm in nutrient solution significantly decreased plant growth, maximal quantum ...

agaricus bisporus is the most important industrially cultivated edible mushroom. using organic wastes as substrate for cultivation of edible mushroom can provide a perfect solution for disposal of these waste materials and is part of the world's food requirements .in this study to investigate the usability of various organic wastes as growing bed for button mushroom, four types of substrat...

in order to investigate the effects of substrate and spawn levels on growth and development of florida oyster mushroom an experiment was conducted in 2005 at the laboratory of the department of horticulture, agriculture faculty, shahid chamran university, ahvaz. the design of the experiment was a factorial one of a randomized complete blocks of 3 replications. the two factors of substrate and s...

a fourth-degree substrate integrated waveguide (siw) crossed coupled band pass filter for wlan band is designed by using a new negative coupling structure. it consists of two u shape microstrip lines on top and bottom planes with via holes at the center of them. this paper investigates the phase characteristics of negative and positive coupling structures and their effects. the design, fabricat...

the main task of this work is related with the design of a class of siso robust control law for theregulation of substrate concentration (cdo) of an industrial activated sludge wastewater plant. the controldesign is related with an uncertainty estimator (reduced order observer) based active control. departing from the tracking error between the desired and the current substrate concentrations t...