urban landscape structural analysis; focused on the remnant patch mosaic network as the component with closest interdependency with air and water related processes was undertaken to find and propose environmental planning suggestions.assessments demonstrate that remnant patch mosaic network structure of tehran is still restorable. with appropriate corrective measures based on the natural lay ou...

We report on a new optofluidic platform that combines optoelectronic tweezers (OET) 1 with patterned growth patches coated with extracellular matrix for long-term culture of individual adherent cells. The current device has a 10x10 array of growth patches, each with 0.5mm diameter to allow for expansion of colonies to about 250 cells. The OET platform allows selection of desired single cells be...

In this study, matrix-type transdermal patches containing diclofenac diethylamine were prepared using different ratios of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and ethylcellulose (EC) by solvent evaporation technique. The drug matrix film of PVP and EC was casted on a polyvinylalcohol backing membrane. All the prepared formulations were subjected to physical studies (moisture content, moisture uptake, and...

Traditional approaches to the study of fragmented landscapes invoke an island-ocean model and assume that the nonhabitat matrix surrounding remnant patches is uniform. Patch isolation, a crucial parameter to the predictions of island biogeography and metapopulation theories, is measured by distance alone. To test whether the type of interpatch matrix can contribute significantly to patch isolat...

Histological sections of the mammalian striatum reveal a "matrix" that is histochemically distinguishable from patches, or "striosomes". The latter are cross sections of a compartment that consists primarily of tube-shaped structures radiating through the matrix. As a test of the hypothesis that the function of the striosome/patch compartment includes the mediation of behaviors related to rewar...

Modelling metapopulation dynamics is a potentially very powerful tool for conservation biologists. In recent years, scientists have broadened the range of variables incorporated into metapopulation modelling from using almost exclusively habitat patch size and isolation, to the inclusion of attributes of the matrix and habitat patch quality. We investigated the influence of habitat patch and ma...

it is well known that the matrix exponential function has practical applications in engineering and applied sciences. in this paper, we present some new explicit identities to the exponential functions of a special class of matrices that are known as central-symmetric $x$-form. for instance, $e^{mathbf{a}t}$, $t^{mathbf{a}}$ and $a^{mathbf{a}t}$ will be evaluated by the new formulas in this par...