The team is now honing its method to better coat curved pieces of glass as well as clear plastics such as Plexiglas, and to adapt the method for the rigors of manufacturing. "Joanna's new SLIPS coating reveals the power of following Nature's lead in developing new technologies," said Don ...
Much of our work on data warehouses reminds me of the show This Old House. The parallels are clear: If you have enough pride of ownership and invest in maintenance, the data warehouse can stay new. Moreover, it can represent a captivating ROI message to its owners. Let's get out the...
(The arrangement of enlarged suckers varies considerably among the specimens examined and it would be useful when more material becomes available to map the arrangement of enlarged suckers in mature specimens of both sexes and over a range of specimen sizes to determine whether a clear pattern of ...
The desk sergeant, in particular, is a complete dope- one wonders how he got his job- as a sexual joke by one of the girls goes over his head while the other detectives laugh like fools. Why is this necessary? I suppose for comic relief, but isn’t that the purpose of Mrs. Mac, ...
Even if human beings have no control over the genetic aspects of their metabolism, it is essential to understand that there are various ways to speed up the rate at which the body processes calories. Also, when you want to get rid of excessive fats from the body to have a beautiful body...
The thick glycoprotein coat of the oocyte, which overlies the oocyte plasma membrane. ACROSOME REACTION Having achieved capacitation (in other words, fertilization competancy) through the female reproductive tract, the sperm's membrane is destabilized so that it can bind to the zona pellucida of...
After controlling the polymorphisms over the whole genome, we chose at about every 10 cM one marker to convert it from a SNP to CAPS. For this purpose, we have utilized already published chromosomal position by Comadran et al. [41]. To detect a restriction site polymorphism, we used the...
For the tree age, the three-year-old A. sinensis already have the xylem characteristics of adult trees (Zhang et al., 2012) and the growth year of the trees in study is 4–7 year, which are all adult trees. For the producing methods, it has been proved that different agarwood ...
only the hydrophobic backbone and covering in the surface of starch foam are found. Moreover, the findings are related to the work of Nykänen et al. [20]. The water absorption of the starch foam was reduced from 11 to 9.2% by adding 0 to 10 wt% of hydrophobic plasticizer. Another ...
This premise is linked to understanding the consumer action not as a single point, but instead as an action that takes place over time: from deciding we have a need (pre-purchase), choosing a product or service (purchase), and the use, maintenance, and disposal of what we acquired (post...