A liquid–liquid interface (LLI) at liquid-infused surfaces (LISs) plays a significant role in promoting slip flow and reducing frictional drag. By employing the transverse many-body dissipative particle dynamics simulations, behavior of local effective flat LLI for shear flows over periodically grooved LISs has been studied. With increasing viscosity ratio between working fluid lubricant fluid,...

For multipath channels with a high number of taps and signal constellation points the APP (BCJR) soft-in/soft-out detector in a turboscheme has a prohibitively high number of states. We replace it by a novel list-sequential stack (LISS) algorithm using augmented paths and an auxiliary stack for a length dependent bias term. For BERs lower than 10 the turbo system with a LISS equalizer has almos...

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) occurs when an external force injures the brain. While clinical outcomes of TBI can vary widely in severity, few mechanisms of neurodegeneration following TBI have been identified for treatment. We propose a model for studying TBI using laser-induced shockwaves (LISs). An optical system was developed that allows single cells to be studied in response to LISs. Our sy...

Path radiance due to aerosols plays an important role over satellite derived reflectance due to higher aerosol optical depth and their seasonal variations. In addition, satellite data from high-resolution sensors are subjected to adjacency effect, which reduces apparent surface contrast by decreasing the top of the atmosphere radiance over bright pixels and increasing the brightness of the dark...

BACKGROUND The INDIAN blood group system comprises 4 antigens sensitive to enzymes and 2-aminoethyl isothiouronium bromide (AET). AIM The patient's antibody was investigated for its specificity to the high-frequency antigens (HFA) of this system. MATERIAL AND METHODS Low ionic strength solution (LISS)-tube/LISS-indirect antiglobulin test (IAT) methods were used. The patient's red blood cell...

In this letter, we consider the problem of regulating voltage an islanded Direct Current (DC) network subject to (i) unknown ZIP-loads, i.e., nonlinear loads with parallel combination constant impedance (Z), current (I) and power (P) components, (ii) time-varying disturbances. Using port-Hamiltonian framework, two decentralized passivity-based control schemes are designed. It is shown that, usi...

background& aim: substance abuse is associated with high prevalence of psychiatric disorders including mood disorders (especially depression), personality disorders and psychosis. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of methadone and its result on substance induced depression-symptoms among iv drug abusers of kashan prison in 1384. method & materials: this is a semi-experimen...