Since a very early stage of discotic liquid crystal research, triphenylene derivatives are known to be useful materials for the study of discotic liquid crystals. Recently, their importance as photoconducting materials was recognized [1]. Blue phases had only been observed in binary mixtures [2, 3]. It took over ten years to experimentally verify [4] J. Prost’s prediction of ferroelectricity in...

Receptivity is a limited time in which uterine endometrium can establish a successful dialogue with blastocyst. This study was to investigate the effect of asynchronous embryo transfer on uterine receptivity in mice. Embryos under different stages were transferred into two oviduct sides of a recipient mouse on day 1 of pseudopregnancy. Our results showed the asynchronously transferred embryos c...

The numerical investigation of drop deformation and breakup under simple shear is a basis for theoretical studies of emulsification and mixing. A three-dimensional Couette flow without gravity is considered; the matrix liquid is bounded at the top and bottom by two parallel horizontal plates and the liquid drop is suspended there. The boundaries move horizontally, and generate a simple shear fl...

INTRODUCTION Interhospital transfers (ITs) could provide insight into regional healthcare efficiency and evidence for policy-making. The aim of this study was to analyse ITs carried out in the Western Greece region over a nine-year period. METHODS Archives of the National Center of Emergency Medical Services of Patras and official healthcare resources were used to analyze patient transfers fr...

significant number of patients undergoing surA gery for valvular hea, disease suffer from rheumatic involvement or functional insufficiency of the tricuspid valve necessitating its replacement with a prosthe~is.~.' Follow-up studies indicate few significant postoperative complications related to the prosthetic tricuspid ~ a l v e . ~ . ~ Life-threatening obstruction of the prosthesis by thrombu...

The mD generator electrode materials problem has been greatly simplified by Introducing cooling water Into the electrode stems. Runs of over one-half hour duration indicate a negligible recession of the surface so that the same electrodes can be used for several runs. Electrical data from the generator indicates a diffuse current with an applied electric field for currents up to about 10 ampere...

– We present a modification of the so-called Parrondo’s paradox where one is allowed to choose in each turn the game that a large number of individuals play. It turns out that, by choosing the game which gives the highest average earnings at each step, one ends up with systematic losses, whereas a periodic or random sequence of choices yields a steadily increase of the capital. An explanation o...

By harboring male and female functions in the same genome and expressing them in every individual, simultaneous hermaphrodites may incur sexual conflict unless both sex functions can evolve phenotypic optima independently of each other. The first step toward understanding their capacity to do so lies in understanding whether sex functions are phenotypically correlated within individuals, but re...

This study was undertaken to evaluate fertilization and early embryo development of in vitro matured (IVM) horse oocytes following transfer with homologous sperm to the oviduct of estrous ewes. A total of 1023 follicles (5.1 per ovary) were found after processing 202 slaughterhouse ovaries by aspiration and subsequent slicing. Most follicles (79%) were less than 20-mm in diameter. Six hundred s...