Melt electrowriting (MEW) is an additive manufacturing technology enabling the production of highly porous microfiber scaffolds, suggested in particular for use biomedical applications, including drug delivery. Indomethacin (IND) a nonselective anti-inflammatory drug, which sublingual delivery could offer advantages such as rapid absorption by veins mouth floor while overcoming side effects per...

Melt electrowriting (MEW) is a high resolution material extrusion based additive manufacturing process with the unique capability to produce micron sub-micron diameter fibres and control their deposition in three dimensions. Here, we detail design, development build of custom MEW printer which has full integration between all core components. We design motion system, print head (including heate...

Melt electrowriting (MEW) is a high-resolution additive manufacturing technology that balances multiple parametric variables to arrive at stable fabrication process. The better understanding of this balance underscored here using camera vision jet stability profiles in different electrical fields. Complementing visual information are fiber-diameter measurements obtained precise points, allowing...

Keeping Japanese quail is an economic way for producing egg, because of their early sexual maturity (laying egg after 35 days), high egg production (250–270 eggs per year), resistance to most of poultry disease and great egg production persistency on a high level (approximately 14–18 months) (MURAKAMI and ARIKI, 1998). Japanese quail maturation happens in about 6 weeks of age and mature females...

Kin selection predicts that helpers in cooperative systems should preferentially aid relatives to maximize fitness. In family-based groups, this can be accomplished simply by assisting all group members. In more complex societies, where large numbers of kin and non-kin regularly interact, more sophisticated kin-recognition mechanisms are needed. Bell miners (Manorina melanophrys) are just such ...

Literature abounds on the subjects of corporate identity and corporate image. Much of this literature has been written at a fairly superficial level by executives of design and marketing communications consultancies (Anspach 1983, Chajet 1984, Couretas 1984, Diefenbach 1986, French 1981, Hamilton 1983, Yarnell 1986). On the other hand, marketing journals and texts mention image regularly, but d...

Anatomical studies in birds have suggested that choroidal blood flow may be regulated by a circuit involving the following serially-connected components: the retina-the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN)-the medial subdivision of the nucleus of Edinger-Westphal (mEW)-the ciliary ganglion-the choroidal blood vessels. In order to better clarify the role of this circuit, we examined the effects of elec...

Melt electrowriting (MEW) enables the electric field-assisted digital fabrication of precisely defined scaffold architectures micron-sized fibers. However, charge accumulation and consequent disruption precoded pattern by fiber bridging prevents controlled printing at small interfiber distances. This, together with periodical layer stacking characteristic for additive manufacturing, typically r...