Despite the remarkable development of nanoparticles for different purposes, relatively little is known about their interaction with biological systems and individual cells. Here the effects of two monooleinbased cubosome formulations stabilized by Pluronic F108 and F127 were investigated against HeLa cells. Microscopy analysis on living cells loaded with organelle-specific fluorescent probes wa...

The objectives of this study are to provide detailed information about green roof performances in the Mediterranean climate (retained volume, peak flow reduction, runoff delay) and to identify a suitable modelling approach for describing the associated hydrologic response. Data colleted during a 13 month monitoring campaign and a seasonal monitoring campaign (September to December 2008) at the ...

We apply statistical physics to study the task of resource allocation in random networks with limited bandwidths for the transportation of resources along the links. We derive algorithms which searches the optimal solution without the need of a global optimizer. For networks with uniformly high connectivity, the resource shortage of a node becomes a well-defined function of its capacity. An eff...

Background Consumer demand for vegetarian options is growing. Fast-food restaurants have responded by adding high-profile offerings, but little known about the overall availability or nutrient profile of at these establishments, how items compare with nonvegetarian items. Objective The purpose this study was to quantify trends in and US fast-food from 2012 2018. Design This a longitudinal analy...

mathematical simulation of flow toward drains is an important and indispensable stage in drainage design and management. many related models have been developed, but most of them simulate the saturated flow toward drains without a due consideration of the unsaturated zone. in this study, the two dimensional differential equation governing saturated and unsaturated flow in porous media is numeri...

Horizontal contaminant transport through unsaturated soil been demonstrated both analytically and experimentally. The water and solute transport equations were solved using the Boltzman transformation, to convert the partial differential equations to ordinary differential equations. The resulted mathematical model was verified using experimental data. A laboratory scale column system was constr...

We present a 118-ns molecular dynamics simulation of rhodopsin embedded in a bilayer composed of a 2:2:1 mixture of 1-stearoyl-2-docosahexaenoyl-phosphatidylcholine (SDPC), 1-stearoyl-2-docosahexaenoyl-phosphatidylethanolamine (SDPE), and cholesterol, respectively. The simulation demonstrates that the protein breaks the lateral and transverse symmetry of the bilayer. Lipids near the protein pre...

This study aimed to evaluate the effect of short-term forage substitution with ensiled olive cake (OC), on yield, composition and fatty acid (FA) profile cows’ milk. Mid-lactating Holstein-Friesian cows were randomly assigned for 21 days two isoenergetic isoproteic feeding treatments (12 animals per treatment), containing 0 10% DM OC (C groups, respectively). Milk yield was recorded daily, milk...

We hypothesize that lambs fed diets with different lipids sources from oilseeds would similar performance but fatty acids profile of meat superior to those conventional diets. evaluated the effects inclusion on ingestive behaviour, performance, carcass trait and quality in feedlot lambs. Three isonitrogenous (18.31% crude protein) were evaluated, where one diet was standard (control), others tw...