... EXPERIMENTALANDNUMERICALSTUDIES ON THE VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF LIVING CELLS ZHOU ENHUA (B.Eng., WUHEE & M.Eng., WHU) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF ... fabrication of glass micropipettes I am indebted to Prof KOH Chan Ghee, Prof James GOH, Prof Somsak SWADDIWUDHIPONG, Prof Dietmar HUTMACHER and many other NUS lecturers for sharing their knowledge and ... xiii 6.10 Effect of α on βFE and BFE 118 6.11 Effect of pipette radius on BFE and βFE 120 6.12 Effect of fillet radius on BFE and βFE 121 6.13 Comparison of deformed cell...
... possible dimeric structures of LPL, the head-tohead and the head-to-tail models, the studiesof the chimeric proteins of hepatic lipase and LPL and the tandem repeat approach of LPL [21,34] support ... of hydrogen, modification of bonds, potentials of forcefield, and fixation of heavy atom, backbone, and Ca, were performed for molecular mechanics calculations and then the energy minimization of ... (black) and two distinct structures of the lid (orange) Ó FEBS 2002 Dimeric model structure and function of lipoprotein lipase (Eur J Biochem 269) 4705 Table Heparin affinity of C-terminal domain of...
... persevering and striving for excellence and mastery ii TABLE OF CONTENTS DECLARATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF PUBLICATIONS CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS SUMMARY LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES ... .30 1.4 Objective of thesis: the application of metabolomics to biomedical and environmental studies .30 Chapter – Toxicological evaluation of silica nanoparticles using an in vitro ... and measured for cell viability and overt morphological changes Nanosilica is a novel particulate compound of less than 100nm in diameter and it represents a class of nanoparticles that are of...
... Valence band (Ev) Figure 1.4 Energy profile of the solar spectrum with AM 1.5 16 Figure 1.5 Schematic illustration of the coupling of wide band gap semiconductor with a narrow band gap ... refraction index of the particle and nm the real index of refraction of the surrounding medium k is the wavevector and x = ǀkǀR the size parameter, with R being the radius of the particle ψL(z) and ηL(z) ... light of 15 Chapter standard A.M 1.5, material with bandgap of 1.23 eV is able to absorb up to 75% of the solar energy On the other hand, when the absorbed photon energy is larger than the bandgap,...
... phenomena of interacting manybody system Plenty of theoretical studies on cold dilute atomic gases were carried out and a number of labs were set up to study the properties of BECs The quantity of BEC ... the energies and chemical potentials of the ground state and the first five excited states for different β1 Furthermore, Figure 2.1(b)&(c) show the numerical solutions of the first and the fifth ... temperature of the order of 100nK is required so that λdB is of the order of interatomic spacing At the same time, a gaseous state of the system has to be maintained to avoid collision of particles...
... receptor activation and caspase-8 activation, and the other involving intrinsic mitochondrial disruption and activation of caspase-9 (Fischer and Schulze-Osthoff, 2005) Pecere and colleagues firstly ... Ramdzan in Department of Biochemistry for their useful comments and discussions on my study A deep appreciation goes to my parents and grandma, for their love, support and understanding They have ... List of Tables and Figures xi Abbreviations xiii CHAPTER INTRODUCTION 1.1 Aloe-emodin (AE) 1.1.1 Introduction: rhubarb and AE 1.1.2 Source and metabolism of AE 1.1.3 Pharmacological properties of...
... results[ 1[ Experimental study Experimentalstudies include measurements of velocity and optical properties of the laser!evaporated plume[ A KrF excimer laser with a wavelength of 137 nm and a pulse ... threshold value of the onset of explosive phase trans! formation[ Finally\ numerical sensitivity studies are per! formed to determine the e}ect of uncertain ther! mophysical properties and interfacial ... "a# the velocity of the plasma front\ "b# transmission of the laser beam through the plasma\ and "c# the laser energy lost to the ambient[ direction and the angle of incidence of the probing beam...
... heatsources The current study is the ongoing effort towards experimental investigation of the adsorption characteristics including the adsorption isotherm, kinetics, andheatof adsorption of ... variation of the heatof adsorption as a function of loading, which in turn depends on the pressure and temperature at which adsorption/desorption occurs The heatof adsorption, Qst can be measured experimentally ... upon the determination of adsorption isotherms and kinetics of adsorbent-adsorbate pair as well as the isosteric heatof adsorption Hence, the fundamental experimentalstudiesof the adsorption characteristic...
... fin tip In the solution domain, different heat transfer and fluid flow were accomplished for a range of values of the ratio of radii of inside and outer tubes, fin height and number of fins The ... Annular–Finned Tube Heat Exchangers″, International Journal ofHeatand Mass Transfer, Vol.47, pp.1953–1964, 2004 [10] Mir N A., Syed K S and Mazhar Iqbal, NumericalSolutionof Fluid Flow andHeat Transfer ... design and develop heat exchange tubes Mon and Gross [9] investigated a numerical analysis of pressure drop andheat transfer characteristics on the air side of the circular –finned tube heat exchangers...
... Eight AN rats and 20 SD rats were used for the study of BMP4, and 16 AN rats and 21 SD rats for the study of BMP6 Animal protocols were approved by the University of Virginia Animal Use and Research ... (Lanes 1, and 3), BstXI (Lanes 4, 5, and 6), and BglII plus EcoRV (Lanes 7, 8, and 9) M, 1-kb DNA ladder Lanes 1, 4, and 7, 293A cells; Lanes 2, 5, and 8, ADrBMP6 DNA; Lanes 3, 6, and 9, ADhBMP6 ... ADNULL-transduced cells Figure Western blot detection of BMP4 (A), BMP6 (C and E), and β-actin (B and D) A solutionof lyzed transduced Vero cells (A, B, C, and D) or conditioned medium (E) was loaded...
... contours of the restorations planned with the diagnostic wax-up, as well as the occlusal plane, the length and angulation of the teeth, their relation with the upper and lower lips at rest and when ... resin mock-up (33.3 per cent), and before and after pictures of other patients (12.5 per cent) No patient indicated diagnostic wax-up as his or her preferred method of visualisation While computer-imaging ... shape on dry and unetched teeth without application of adhesive and is therefore fully reversible Direct mock-up with composite resin was also preferred by patients for visualisation of expected...
... Critics and supporters of natural language usage can all find heartening and disheartening evidence from these experimental reports The contribution of these studies is in clarification of the ... range of functions they understand A more serious problem arises with systems which carry on a complete dialog in natural language and generate the image of a robot Movie and television versions of ... processes and problem solving methods hy contrasting natural language and proposed alternatives in paper and pensil studies Subjects may be asked to write queries to a database of present a sequence of...
... quality and biodiversity These resources often form the basis of most rural economies Social relations are often based on trust, reciprocity and exchange, and contribute to a sense of well-being and ... introduction of error and loss of time efficiency Nowadays, the use of computers and statistical programmes is fairly standard for the analysis of quantitative data Aside from common database and statistical ... quality and quantity of natural resources that are available to people and above all, the access and control people have over these natural resources Examples include aquatic resources, water, land,...
... analyzed using Conexor parser, and various statistics are extracted: 1) frequency, tf.idf of the disease names, 2) distribution of modifiers of the disease names, 3) frequency, tf.idf of unit words of ... If two terms X and Y are terms in same category and X is nested in Y as W1XW2, then X is base term, and W1 and W2 are modifiers of X For example two terms, “diabetes mellitus” and “insulin dependent ... hybrid method of method (tf.idf of words, structure information) and method 2, showed the best precision of 82.0% of all, because the two methods interacted complementary The coverage of this method...
... it is of great interest to study the structure of the catalytic domain of PKCf and its interaction with substrates To date, no full structure of a complete PKC isoform, at an atomic resolution ... structure of the catalytic domain of PKCf and the effect of its substrate, MgATP, and also to study the effect of thermal unfolding in the presence and the absence of MgATP We used 2D correlation ... buffer in the absence of ligands at 25 °C (20 mgÆmL)1) In order to decompose the amide I band, the number and initial positions of the component bands were obtained from band-narrowed spectra...
... aware of the thermal stresses developed in quick-setting concrete, the effect ofheatand mass transfer on building and building materials and also the effect ofheat on nuclear containment, and ... mass of the gas in the bulb; cpg , the specific heatof the gas; mw , the mass of the wall of the bulb; cpw , the specific heatof the wall; hf , the heat transfer coefficient between the filament and ... version of discrete systems, and the accuracy of the solution can be controlled by changing the number of unknowns and elements The Fundamentals of the Finite Element Method for Heatand Fluid...
... total of g of TiO2 powder and 25 mL of 10 M NaOH aqueous solution were put into a Teflonlined stainless autoclave (the rate of TiO2 powder and NaOH aq is 0.08 g/mL) The autoclave was heated and ... of (a) and (b) show almost only nanowires Those of (c) and (d) show both nanowires and small amount of particles Over 800 1C, the surfaces of nanowires became smooth because of the progress of ... Nanowires with post -heat treatment (600– 900 1C) Figs and show the SEM images and XRD patterns of the heat- treated samples: (a)–(d) are samples heated for h at 600, 700, 800 and 900 1C, respectively...
... properties to Program Offices (e.g., Office of Water, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances) and Regional Offices Also, SPARC has been used ... databases The strength of the electrostatic interaction between S and C depends on the magnitude and relative orientation of the local fields of S and C and the dielectric properties and distances through ... (Independent of the property, C and S), and reaction center susceptibility, which rates the response of C to the effect in question (depends on the property, independent of S and R) The contributions of...
... Nutation ofgrowing and georeacting roots, and Environment 4, 339-343 OSBORNE, 1976 Control ofcell shape and cell size D.J regulation Of auxin and ethylene' In by the Perspectives in Experimental ... behaviour of roots at the interface between a tilled seedbed and a compacted sub-soil 11 Entry of pea and wheat roots into subsoil cracks Plant and Soil 95, 135-147 DEXTER, A.R 1987 Mechanics of root ... Effect Of subsoiling a compacted clay loam soil on the nitrogen uptake ofwheat Proceedings Of the ' I t h Conference Of lhe International Research Organisation2, 797-802 REED, R.H 1984 Useandabuseofosmo-terminology...