The plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a large single cell visible with the naked eye. When inoculated on a substrate with attractants and repellents the plasmodium develops optimal networks of protoplasmic tubes which span sites of attractants (i.e. nutrients) yet avoid domains with a high nutrient concentration. It should therefore be possible to program the plasmodium towards determinist...

data show that Greiner lithium-heparin tubes produce a frequency of duplicate errors similar to the frequency of errors obtained with the BD tubes. From the data obtained, use of the modified Modular P IFCC method substantially reduced but did not totally eliminate duplicate errors. For many years, we have observed on an intermittent basis duplicate errors when using lithium-heparin gel tubes (...

Recently, very thin single crystal scintillator imaging plates became of great interest. Such thin screens are mainly used in micro-CT and nano-CT systems with either micro-focus X-ray tubes or with synchrotron sources. This work deals with a high resolution CCD camera in conjunction with a macro optical system and YAG:Ce single crystal scintillators for low energy X-ray micro-radiography appli...

Backgrounds and aims: Candida albicans is more prevalent between Candida species which can cause candidal infection. Various studies have shown drug resistance among the C. albicans isolates, so it is now necessary to discover replacement treatments for the Candida infection. The aim of this study is comparison the effects of different Essential oils (EOs) against azoles-resistant and azoles-su...

The flow characteristics of the supercritical fluid in micro-fin tube is theoretical basis for development heat transfer enhancement and resistance reduction tube. For tubes with different fin shapes, this paper considered physical properties nitrogen state adopted enhanced wall function, reasonable turbulence equations, control etc., to numerically simulate a 2 mm under pressure. distribution ...