The osmoregulation of the nauplius of the brine shrimp, Artemia salina, was investigated using micropuncture and microanalytical techniques. The naupliar body fluid, hemolymph was hyposmotic to and had lower Na concentrations than the suspending medium for the range of medium salinities from 80 to 4,900 mM NaCl. In medium containing 20 mM NaCl, the hemolymph was hyperosmotic to the medium, with...

Suspensions of isolated cells were prepared from mouse livers that had been perfused via the portal vein with a buffered medium containing sucrose. The demonstration of metabolic activities in these cells was found to be critically dependent on the composition of the suspending medium. The cells showed considerable metabolic activity in a simple medium containing 0.06 to 0.20 M sucrose, but did...

Cryomicroscopy of protoplasts isolated from nonacclimated (NA) rye leaves (Secale cereale L. cv Puma) revealed that the predominant form of injury following cooling to the minimum temperature for 50% survival (LT(50)) (-5 degrees C) was expansion-induced lysis of the plasma membrane during warming and thawing of the suspending medium when the decreasing osmolality resulted in osmotic expansion ...

We develop an analytical theory to explain the experimentally observed morphological transitions of quasispherical giant vesicles induced by alternating electric fields. The model treats the inner and suspending media as lossy dielectrics, and the membrane as an impermeable flexible incompressible-fluid sheet. The vesicle shape is obtained by balancing electric, hydrodynamic, bending, and tensi...

A Hele–Shaw quadratic flow in the form of a six-port microfluidic device is employed to study deformation single channel-spanning or Newtonian drop suspended medium. An initially circular deforms into regular triarcle, i.e., rounded-corner triangle. Theoretically, calculated limit small capillary number, which defined as Ca=Cμa4/(4γb2), where C rate, μ suspending fluid viscosity, radius, γ inte...

This report presents a proof to support the correctness of the schedulability test for self-suspending real-time task systems proposed by Jane W. S. Liu in her book titled “Real-Time Systems” (Pages 164165). The same concept was also implicitly used by Rajkumar, Sha, and Lehoczky in RTSS 1988 (Page 267) for analyzing self-suspending behaviour due to synchronization protocols in multiprocessor s...

In the paper "Timing Analysis of Fixed Priority Self-Suspending Sporadic Tasks" published in ECRTS 2015, a MILP formulation is provided to compute an upper-bound on the worst-case response time (WCRT) of one selfsuspending task running concurrently with a set of higher priority non-self-suspending tasks. Section VI of that paper extends the MILP formulation to the case where the higher priority...

Development of technology driven functional and natural health products has a number of challenges since bioactive ingredients incorporated are unstable to processing with reduced absorption, low bioavailability and reduced shelf life. Encapsulation offers a great potential for protecting and delivering bioactive components and micro-organisms through technology driven products to enhance human...