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Numerous fields would be able to benefit from the protection of tissue damage by freezing. Businesses are currently investigating the use of these proteins in:
* Increasing freeze tolerance of crop plants and extending the harvest season in cooler climates
* Improving farm fish production in cooler climates
* Lengthen... | 1 | Cryobiology |
AFPs work through an interaction with small ice crystals that is similar to an enzyme-ligand binding mechanism which inhibits recrystallization of ice. This explanation of the interruption of the ice crystal structure by the AFP has come to be known as the adsorption-inhibition hypothesis.
According to this hypothesis,... | 1 | Cryobiology |
In August 2003, the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Spencer Abraham, ordered the DOE to organize a second review of the field. This was thanks to an April 2003 letter sent by MITs Peter L. Hagelstein, and the publication of many new papers, including the Italian ENEA and other researchers in the 2003 International Cold Fusio... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
Plants are under horticulture care, but the environment is managed to near natural conditions. This occurs with either restored or semi-natural environments. This technique is primarily used for taxa that are rare or in areas where habitat has been severely degraded. | 1 | Cryobiology |
Since the Fleischmann and Pons announcement, the Italian national agency for new technologies, energy and sustainable economic development (ENEA) has funded Franco Scaramuzzi's research into whether excess heat can be measured from metals loaded with deuterium gas. Such research is distributed across ENEA departments, ... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
Fusion reactors typically burn a mixture of deuterium (D) and tritium (T). When heated to millions of degrees, the kinetic energy in the fuel begins to overcome the natural electrostatic repulsion between nuclei, the so-called coulomb barrier, and the fuel begins to undergo fusion. This reaction gives off an alpha part... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
Vacuum ceramic filters are to be found in the following industries:
* paper making
* metallurgy
* water treatment
* chemical
* ore beneficiation process in mining (iron, gold, nickel, copper and quartz).
The process is used during a large continuous process of separating free filtering suspensions where washing is ... | 5 | Separation Processes |
The Curie–Weiss law is an adapted version of Curie's law, which for a paramagnetic material may be written in SI units as follows, assuming :
Here μ is the permeability of free space; M the magnetization (magnetic moment per unit volume), is the magnetic field, and C the material-specific Curie constant:
where is Bo... | 7 | Magnetic Ordering |
Oleum is a useful form for transporting sulfuric acid compounds, typically in rail tank cars, between oil refineries (which produce various sulfur compounds as a byproduct of refining) and industrial consumers.
Certain compositions of oleum are solid at room temperature, and thus are safer to ship than as a liquid. Sol... | 4 | Acids + Bases |
In the 1990s, India stopped its research in cold fusion at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre because of the lack of consensus among mainstream scientists and the US denunciation of the research. Yet, in 2008, the National Institute of Advanced Studies recommended that the Indian government revive this research. Project... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
Similar to generation of Cancer Stem Cells, EMT was demonstrated to generate endocrine progenitor cells from human pancreatic islets. Initially, the human islet-derived progenitor cells (hIPCs) were proposed to be better precursors since β-cell progeny in these hIPCs inherit epigenetic marks that define an active insul... | 2 | Tissue Engineering |
*In case of long range interaction, , the thermodynamic limit is well defined if ; the magnetization remains zero if ; but the magnetization is positive, at low enough temperature, if (infrared bounds).
*As in any nearest-neighbor n-vector model with free boundary conditions, if the external field is zero, there exi... | 7 | Magnetic Ordering |
A black light lamp emits long-wave UV‑A radiation and little visible light. Fluorescent black light lamps work similarly to other fluorescent lamps, but use a phosphor on the inner tube surface which emits UV‑A radiation instead of visible light. Some lamps use a deep-bluish-purple Woods glass optical filter that block... | 8 | Ultraviolet Radiation |
The tritium breeding blanket (also known as a fusion blanket, lithium blanket or simply blanket), is a key part of many proposed fusion reactor designs. It serves several purposes; primarily it is to produce (or "breed") further tritium fuel for the nuclear fusion reaction, which owing to the scarcity of tritium would ... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
Dilution is the process of decreasing the concentration of a solute in a solution, usually simply by mixing with more solvent like adding more water to the solution. To dilute a solution means to add more solvent without the addition of more solute. The resulting solution is thoroughly mixed so as to ensure that all p... | 5 | Separation Processes |
Exposure to UV radiation is associated with skin aging, wrinkle production, liver spots, loss of skin elasticity, erythema (reddening of the skin), sunburn, photokeratitis (snow blindness), ocular melanoma (eye cancer), and infections. Tanning beds can contain many microbes, some of which are pathogens that can cause s... | 8 | Ultraviolet Radiation |
Carbon is a necessary component of all known life. C, a stable isotope of carbon, is abundantly produced in stars due to three factors:
# The decay lifetime of a Be nucleus is four orders of magnitude larger than the time for two He nuclei (alpha particles) to scatter.
# An excited state of the C nucleus exists a littl... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
It is uncertain whether the use of mechanical closure of the cervical canal following embryo transfer has any effect.
There is considerable evidence that prolonges bed rest (more than 20 minutes) after embryo transfer is associated with reduced chances of clinical pregnancy.
Using hyaluronic acid as an adherence medium... | 1 | Cryobiology |
Hysteresis is a commonly encountered phenomenon in ecology and epidemiology, where the observed equilibrium of a system can not be predicted solely based on environmental variables, but also requires knowledge of the system's past history. Notable examples include the theory of spruce budworm outbreaks and behavioral-e... | 7 | Magnetic Ordering |
IVF success rates are the percentage of all IVF procedures that result in favourable outcomes. Depending on the type of calculation used, this outcome may represent the number of confirmed pregnancies, called the pregnancy rate, or the number of live births, called the live birth rate. Due to advances in reproductive t... | 1 | Cryobiology |
Pycnonuclear fusion () is a type of nuclear fusion reaction which occurs due to zero-point oscillations of nuclei around their equilibrium point bound in their crystal lattice. In quantum physics, the phenomenon can be interpreted as overlap of the wave functions of neighboring ions, and is proportional to the overlapp... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
Imaging cleared tissues generates massive volumes of complex data, which requires powerful computational hardware and software to store, process, analyze, and visualize. A single mouse brain can generate terabytes of data. Both commercial and open-source software exists to address this need, some of it adapted from sol... | 2 | Tissue Engineering |
In phosphors and scintillators, the activator is the element added as dopant to the crystal of the material to create desired type of nonhomogeneities.
In luminescence, only a small fraction of atoms, called emission centers or luminescence centers, emit light. In inorganic phosphors, these inhomogeneities in the cryst... | 0 | Luminescence |
Gough joined the School of Materials, Faculty of Science and Engineering at The University of Manchester, as a lecturer in 2002. She was quickly promoted to Senior lecturer and Reader in 2006 and 2010, respectively.
From 2012 to 2013 she was a Royal Academy of Engineering/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow. Gough ... | 2 | Tissue Engineering |
Direct energy conversion (DEC) or simply direct conversion converts a charged particle's kinetic energy into a voltage. It is a scheme for power extraction from nuclear fusion. | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
Taking advantage of the unique tip geometry of the NFP nanomaterials are directly injected into live cells with minimal invasiveness. This enables unique studies of nanoparticle-mediated delivery, as well as cellular pathways and toxicity. Whereas typical in vitro studies are limited to cell populations, these broadly-... | 2 | Tissue Engineering |
There is currently no evidence supporting targeted temperature management use in humans and clinical trials have not been completed. Most of the data concerning hypothermia's effectiveness in treating stroke is limited to animal studies. These studies have focused primarily on ischemic stroke as opposed to hemorrhagic ... | 1 | Cryobiology |
The field of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) has gained attention from the scientific community due to its potential to reduce pollution and materials and electricity costs, as well as to improve the aesthetics of a building. In recent years, scientists have looked at ways to incorporate DSSC’s in BIPV applica... | 8 | Ultraviolet Radiation |
Hypothermia is often defined as any body temperature below . With this method it is divided into degrees of severity based on the core temperature.
Another classification system, the Swiss staging system, divides hypothermia based on the presenting symptoms which is preferred when it is not possible to determine an acc... | 1 | Cryobiology |
Aroa Biosurgery Limited first distributed OFM commercially in 2012 as Endoform™ Dermal Template (later Endoform™ Natural) through a distribution partnership with Hollister Incorporated (IL, USA). Endoform™ Natural and Endoform™ Antimicrobial (0.3% ionic silver w/w), are single layers of OFM is used in the treatment of ... | 2 | Tissue Engineering |
Galvanoluminescence Is the emission of light produced by the passage of an electric current through an appropriate electrolyte in which an electrode, made of certain metals such as aluminium or tantalum, has been immersed. An example being the electrolysis of sodium bromide (NaBr). | 0 | Luminescence |
It is also helpful in diagnosing:
* Fungal infections. Some forms of tinea, such as Trichophyton tonsurans, do not fluoresce.
* Bacterial infections
**Corynebacterium minutissimum is coral red
**Pseudomonas is yellow-green
* Cutibacterium acnes, a bacterium involved in acne causation, exhibits an orange glow under a Wo... | 8 | Ultraviolet Radiation |
The Borexino detector is located at the Laboratori Nazionali de Gran Sasso, Italy. Borexino is an actively used detector, and experiments are on-going at the site. The goal of the Borexino experiment is measuring low energy, typically below 1 MeV, solar neutrinos in real-time. The detector is a complex structure consis... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
Materials for 3D printing usually consist of alginate or fibrin polymers that have been integrated with cellular adhesion molecules, which support the physical attachment of cells. Such polymers are specifically designed to maintain structural stability and be receptive to cellular integration. The term bio-ink has bee... | 2 | Tissue Engineering |
In humans, excessive exposure to UV radiation can result in acute and chronic harmful effects on the eye's dioptric system and retina. The risk is elevated at high altitudes and people living in high latitude areas where snow covers the ground right into early summer and sun positions even at zenith are low, are partic... | 8 | Ultraviolet Radiation |
In 1956, M. Cantwell predicted theoretically that the spectrum of vibrations of that ion should be observable in the infrared; and the spectra of the deuterium and common hydrogen isotopologues ( and ) should lie closer to visible light and hence easier to observe. The first detection of the spectrum of was made by D... | 4 | Acids + Bases |
The first frozen zoo was established at the San Diego Zoo by pathologist Kurt Benirschke in 1972. At the time there was no technology available to make use of the collection, but Benirschke believed such technology would be developed in the future. The frozen zoo idea was later supported in Gregory Benford's 1992 paper... | 1 | Cryobiology |
Because fibrin fulfills the mechanical aspects of neuronal growth without initiation of glial proliferation, it can be potentially used in neuronal wound healing even with no need of growth factors or such constituents. Neurons and astrocytes, two major cell type of central nervous system, can show various responses to... | 2 | Tissue Engineering |
The first attempt to compute the structure of the HeH ion (specifically, ) by quantum mechanical theory was made by J. Beach in 1936. Improved computations were sporadically published over the next decades. | 4 | Acids + Bases |
One of the most important components of DSSC is the counter electrode. As stated before, the counter electrode is responsible for collecting electrons from the external circuit and introducing them back into the electrolyte to catalyze the reduction reaction of the redox shuttle, generally I to I. Thus, it is important... | 8 | Ultraviolet Radiation |
At normal temperatures pumping mechanisms in cell walls retain intracellular potassium at high levels and extrude sodium. If these pumps fail sodium is taken up by the cell and potassium lost. Water follows the sodium passively and results in swelling of the cells. The importance of this control of cell swelling was de... | 1 | Cryobiology |
Zinc sulfide is also used as an infrared optical material, transmitting from visible wavelengths to just over 12 micrometers. It can be used planar as an optical window or shaped into a lens. It is made as microcrystalline sheets by the synthesis from hydrogen sulfide gas and zinc vapour, and this is sold as FLIR-grade... | 0 | Luminescence |
The Cativa process is a major end use of hydroiodic acid, which serves as a co-catalyst for the production of acetic acid by the carbonylation of methanol. | 4 | Acids + Bases |
Cryoablation of tumor induces necrosis of tumor cells. The immunotherapeutic effect of cryoablation of tumor is the result of the release of intracellular tumor antigens from within the necrotized tumor cells. The released tumor antigens help activate anti-tumor T cells, which destroy remaining malignant cells. Thus, c... | 1 | Cryobiology |
In the United States, sperm banks are regulated as Human Cell and Tissue or Cell and Tissue Bank Product (HCT/Ps) establishments by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with new guidelines in effect May 25, 2005. Many states also have regulations in addition to those imposed by the FDA, including New York and Califor... | 1 | Cryobiology |
Antifreeze glycoproteins or AFGPs are found in Antarctic notothenioids and northern cod. They are 2.6-3.3 kD. AFGPs evolved separately in notothenioids and northern cod. In notothenioids, the AFGP gene arose from an ancestral trypsinogen-like serine protease gene.
*Type I AFP is found in winter flounder, longhorn sculp... | 1 | Cryobiology |
Many metabolic chemical reporters have been developed to identify O-GlcNAc. Metabolic chemical reporters are generally sugar analogues that bear an additional chemical moiety allowing for additional reactivity. For example, peracetylated GlcNAc (AcGlcNAz) is a cell-permeable azido sugar that is de-esterified intracellu... | 6 | Carbohydrates |
Five biosynthesis pathways have been reported for trehalose. The most common pathway is TPS/TPP pathway which is used by organisms that synthesize trehalose using the enzyme trehalose-6-phosphate (T6P) synthase (TPS). Second, trehalose synthase (TS) in certain types of bacteria could produce trehalose by using maltose ... | 6 | Carbohydrates |
The following table lists all of the 122 possible three-dimensional magnetic point groups. This is given in the short version of Hermann–Mauguin notation in the following table. Here, the addition of an apostrophe to a symmetry operation indicates that the combination of the symmetry element and the antisymmetry operat... | 7 | Magnetic Ordering |
The LLE describes an anisotropic magnet. The equation is described in as follows: It is an equation for a vector field S, in other words a function on R taking values in R. The equation depends on a fixed symmetric 3 by 3 matrix J, usually assumed to be diagonal; that is, . It is given by Hamilton's equation of mot... | 7 | Magnetic Ordering |
Arsenic can sublime readily at high temperatures.
Cadmium and zinc sublime much more than other common materials, so they are not suitable materials for use in vacuum. | 5 | Separation Processes |
The filter cloth is washed on both sides with each drum rotation while discharging filter cakes. The products for this mechanism are usually sticky, wet and thin thus, requiring the aid of a discharge roll. Belt discharge is used if slurry with moderate solid concentration is used or if the slurry is easy to filter to ... | 5 | Separation Processes |
In the German/US HIBALL study, Garching used the high repetition rate of the RF driver to serve four reactor chambers using liquid lithium inside the chamber cavity. In 1982 high-confinement mode (H-mode) was discovered in tokamaks. | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
The most common physical methods used to lyse, kill, and remove cells from the matrix of a tissue through the use of temperature, force and pressure, and electrical disruption. Temperature methods are often used in a rapid freeze-thaw mechanism. By quickly freezing a tissue, microscopic ice crystals form around the pla... | 2 | Tissue Engineering |
Oxford Authentication: Home - TL Testing Authentication Oxford Authentication® Ltd authenticates ceramic antiquities using the scientific technique of thermoluminescence (TL). TL testing is a dating method for archaeological items which can distinguish between genuine and fake antiquities. See some of their case studie... | 0 | Luminescence |
In 1984, Martin Peng proposed an alternate arrangement of magnet coils that would greatly reduce the aspect ratio while avoiding the erosion issues of the compact tokamak: a spherical tokamak. Instead of wiring each magnet coil separately, he proposed using a single large conductor in the center, and wiring the magnets... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
Naphthalene, an organic compound commonly found in pesticides such as mothballs, sublimes easily because it is made of non-polar molecules that are held together only by van der Waals intermolecular forces. Naphthalene is a solid that sublimes gradually at standard temperature and pressure, at a high rate, with the cri... | 5 | Separation Processes |
Hydrazoic acid reacts with nitrous acid:
This reaction is unusual in that it involves compounds with nitrogen in four different oxidation states. | 4 | Acids + Bases |
The research on transgender reproduction and family planning is limited. A 2020 comparative study of children born to a transgender father and cisgender mother via donor sperm insemination in France showed no significant differences to IVF and naturally conceived children of cisgender parents.
Transgender men can exper... | 1 | Cryobiology |
"Thus, we have the ability to do away with oil (and other fossil fuels) but it will take 4–6 years and ca. $100–200M to build the full-scale plant and demonstrate it."
"Somebody will build it; and when it's built, it will work; and when it works people will begin to use it, and it will begin to displace all other forms... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
Some animals, including birds, reptiles, and insects such as bees, can see near-ultraviolet wavelengths. Many fruits, flowers, and seeds stand out more strongly from the background in ultraviolet wavelengths as compared to human color vision. Scorpions glow or take on a yellow to green color under UV illumination, thus... | 8 | Ultraviolet Radiation |
There have been reports of incidents of abuse regarding forced insemination with sperm samples bought online.
Further abuse of sperm banks comes from the fertility clinic staff themselves. There have been a number of reports of staff at sperm banks and fertility clinics providing their own sperm in place of donor sperm... | 1 | Cryobiology |
O-GlcNAc has been implicated in influenza A virus (IAV)-induced cytokine storm. Specifically, O-GlcNAcylation of S430 on interferon regulatory factor-5 (IRF5) has been shown to promote its interaction with TNF receptor-associated factor 6 (TRAF6) in cellular and mouse models. TRAF6 mediates K63-linked ubiquitination of... | 6 | Carbohydrates |
In June 1955 Bussard moved to Los Alamos and joined the Nuclear Propulsion Divisions Project Rover designing nuclear thermal rocket engines. Bussard and R.D. DeLauer wrote two important monographs on nuclear propulsion, Nuclear Rocket Propulsion and Fundamentals of Nuclear Flight'. | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
UV curing (ultraviolet curing) is the process by which ultraviolet light initiates a photochemical reaction that generates a crosslinked network of polymers through radical polymerization or cationic polymerization. UV curing is adaptable to printing, coating, decorating, stereolithography, and in the assembly of a va... | 8 | Ultraviolet Radiation |
Marcel Joseph Vogel (April 14, 1917 – February 12, 1991) was a research scientist working at the IBM San Jose Research Center for 27 years. He is sometimes referred to as Dr. Vogel, although this title was based on an honorary degree, not a Ph.D. Later in his career, he became interested in various theories of quartz c... | 0 | Luminescence |
Glowsticking is the use of glow sticks in dancing (such as in glow poi and wotagei). They are frequently used for entertainment at parties (in particular raves), concerts, and dance clubs. They are used by marching band conductors for evening performances; glow sticks are also used in festivals and celebrations around ... | 0 | Luminescence |
There may be leftover embryos or eggs from IVF procedures if the person for whom they were originally created has successfully carried one or more pregnancies to term, and no longer wishes to use them. With the patient's permission, these may be donated to help others conceive by means of third party reproduction.
In e... | 1 | Cryobiology |
In Saxon settlements such as one identified in Northumberland as Bedes Ad Gefrin (now called Yeavering) the buildings were shown by an excavators reconstruction to have opposed entries. In barns a draught created by the use of these opposed doorways was used in winnowing.
The technique developed by the Chinese was not... | 5 | Separation Processes |
Susceptibility to photo-oxidation varies depending on the chemical structure of the polymer. Some materials have excellent stability, such as fluoropolymers, polyimides, silicones and certain acrylate polymers. However, global polymer production is dominated by a range of commodity plastics which account for the majori... | 8 | Ultraviolet Radiation |
The maximum energy product is defined based on the magnetic hysteresis saturation loop (- curve), in the demagnetizing portion where the and fields are in opposition. It is defined as the maximal value of the product of and along this curve (actually, the maximum of the negative of the product, , since they have op... | 7 | Magnetic Ordering |
Tissue remodeling is the reorganization or renovation of existing tissues. Tissue remodeling can be either physiological or pathological. The process can either change the characteristics of a tissue such as in blood vessel remodeling, or result in the dynamic equilibrium of a tissue such as in bone remodeling. Macroph... | 2 | Tissue Engineering |
(E)-Stilbene, commonly known as trans-stilbene, is an organic compound represented by the condensed structural formula CHCH=CHCH. Classified as a diarylethene, it features a central ethylene moiety with one phenyl group substituent on each end of the carbon–carbon double bond. It has an (E) stereochemistry, mean... | 0 | Luminescence |
For small spots of vitiligo, it is possible to use psoralen as drops, applied only on the spots. This method does not have side effects since the amount is very low.
For larger area, the psoralen is taken as a pill, and the amount is high (10 mg); some patients experience nausea and itching after ingesting the psoralen... | 8 | Ultraviolet Radiation |
In hypochlorhydria and achlorhydria, there is low or no gastric acid in the stomach, potentially leading to problems as the disinfectant properties of the gastric lumen are decreased. In such conditions, there is greater risk of infections of the digestive tract (such as infection with Vibrio or Helicobacter bacteria)... | 4 | Acids + Bases |
Amylopectin is a water-insoluble polysaccharide and highly branched polymer of α-glucose units found in plants. It is one of the two components of starch, the other being amylose.
Plants store starch within specialized organelles called amyloplasts. To generate energy, the plant hydrolyzes the starch, releasing the gl... | 6 | Carbohydrates |
Freezing is almost always an exothermic process, meaning that as liquid changes into solid, heat and pressure are released. This is often seen as counter-intuitive, since the temperature of the material does not rise during freezing, except if the liquid were supercooled. But this can be understood since heat must be c... | 1 | Cryobiology |
Trehalose is rapidly broken down into glucose by the enzyme trehalase, which is present in the brush border of the intestinal mucosa of omnivores (including humans) and herbivores. It causes less of a spike in blood sugar than glucose. Trehalose has about 45% the sweetness of sucrose at concentrations above 22%, but w... | 6 | Carbohydrates |
The settling particles can contact each other and arise when approaching the floor of the sedimentation tanks at very high particle concentration. So that further settling will only occur in adjust matrix as the sedimentation rate decreasing. This is can be illustrated by the lower region of the zone-settling diagram (... | 5 | Separation Processes |
The term spiral separator can refer to either a device for separating slurry components by density (wet spiral separators), or for a device for sorting particles by shape (dry spiral separators). | 5 | Separation Processes |
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), a underground observatory in Sudbury, Canada, is the other site where neutrino oscillation research was taking place in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The results from experiments at this observatory along with those at Super-Kamiokande are what helped solve the solar neutrino ... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
In addition to unusual experimental properties, spin glasses are the subject of extensive theoretical and computational investigations. A substantial part of early theoretical work on spin glasses dealt with a form of mean-field theory based on a set of replicas of the partition function of the system.
An important, ex... | 7 | Magnetic Ordering |
In 1920, the British physicist, Francis William Aston, discovered that the mass of four hydrogen atoms is greater than the mass of one helium atom (He-4), which implied that energy can be released by combining hydrogen atoms to form helium. This provided the first hints of a mechanism by which stars could produce energ... | 3 | Nuclear Fusion |
In 1955 Gilbert replaced the damping term in the Landau–Lifshitz (LL) equation by one that depends on the time derivative of the magnetization:
This is the Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert (LLG) equation, where is the damping parameter, which is characteristic of the material. It can be transformed into the Landau–Lifshitz eq... | 7 | Magnetic Ordering |
Hydroiodic acid (or hydriodic acid) is a colorless and aqueous solution of hydrogen iodide (HI). It is a strong acid, which is ionized completely in an aqueous solution. Concentrated solutions of hydroiodic acid are usually 48% to 57% HI. | 4 | Acids + Bases |
The following reporting guidelines were developed and published:
* MIRAGE MS guidelines for reporting mass spectrometry-based glycan analysis. These guidelines are based on the MIAPE guideline template, i.e. MIAPE-MS version 2.24.
* MIRAGE Sample preparation guidelines which are considered a common basis for any furt... | 6 | Carbohydrates |
Cathodoluminescence is an optical and electromagnetic phenomenon in which electrons impacting on a luminescent material such as a phosphor, cause the emission of photons which may have wavelengths in the visible spectrum. A familiar example is the generation of light by an electron beam scanning the phosphor-coated inn... | 0 | Luminescence |
The embryo transfer procedure starts by placing a speculum in the vagina to visualize the cervix, which is cleansed with saline solution or culture media. A transfer catheter is loaded with the embryos and handed to the clinician after confirmation of the patient's identity. The catheter is inserted through the cervic... | 1 | Cryobiology |
Sublimation is the transition of a substance directly from the solid to the gas state, without passing through the liquid state. The verb form of sublimation is sublime, or less preferably, sublimate. Sublimate also refers to the product obtained by sublimation. The point at which sublimation occurs rapidly (for furthe... | 5 | Separation Processes |
Muscle is a naturally aligned organ, with individual muscle fibers packed together into larger units called muscle fascicles. The uniaxial alignment of muscle fibers allows them to simultaneously contract in the same direction and properly propagate force on the bones via the tendons. Approximately 45% of the human bod... | 2 | Tissue Engineering |
By arranging each strand of EL wire into a shape slightly different from the previous one, it is possible to create animations using EL wire sequencers. EL wire sequencers are also used for costumes and have been used to create animations on various items such as kimono, purses, neckties, and motorcycle tanks. They are... | 0 | Luminescence |
Speromagnetism is the equivalent of antiferromagnetism for a disordered system with random magnetic moments. It is defined by short range correlations of locked magnetic moments within small noncrystalline regions, without average long range correlations. Speromagnets do not have a net magnetic moment.
An example of a... | 7 | Magnetic Ordering |
Polythionic acids are rarely encountered, but polythionates are common and important.
Polythionic acids have been identified in crater lakes. The phenomenon may be useful to predict volcanic activity. | 4 | Acids + Bases |
Clarification is a name for the method of separating fluid from solid particles. Often clarification is used along with flocculation to make the solid particles sink faster to the bottom of the clarification pool while fluid is obtained from the surface which is free of solid particles.
Thickening is the same as clarif... | 5 | Separation Processes |
Established in 1972, the focus of the research is on cryoinjury, cryosurgery, cryopreservation, lyophilization and hypothermia. Since 1985 the Institute has published the open access peer-reviewed scientific journal Problems of Cryobiology and Cryomedicine. | 1 | Cryobiology |
Enzymes used in decellularization treatments are used to break the bonds and interactions between nucleic acids, interacting cells through neighboring proteins, and other cellular components. Lipases, thermolysin, galactosidase, nucleases, and trypsin have all been used in the removal of cells. After a cell is lysed w... | 2 | Tissue Engineering |
An apparent self-protective behaviour, known as "terminal burrowing", or "hide-and-die syndrome", occurs in the final stages of hypothermia. Those affected will enter small, enclosed spaces, such as underneath beds or behind wardrobes. It is often associated with paradoxical undressing. Researchers in Germany claim thi... | 1 | Cryobiology |
EL wire sequencers can flash electroluminescent wire, or EL wire, in sequential patterns. EL wire requires a low-power, high-frequency driver to cause the wire to illuminate. Most EL wire drivers simply light up one strand of EL wire in a constant-on mode, and some drivers may additionally have a blink or strobe mode. ... | 0 | Luminescence |
In Canada, one cycle of IVF treatment can cost between $7,750 to $12,250 CAD, and medications alone can cost between $2,500 to over $7,000 CAD. The funding mechanisms that influence accessibility in Canada vary by province and territory, with some provinces providing full, partial or no coverage.
New Brunswick provides... | 1 | Cryobiology |
Phosphor banded stamps first appeared in 1959 as guides for machines to sort mail. Around the world many varieties exist with different amounts of banding. Postage stamps are sometimes collected by whether or not they are "tagged" with phosphor (or printed on luminescent paper). | 0 | Luminescence |
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