The adaptive immune system is responsible for an antigen-specific response that is stronger and faster with each subsequent infection. The hallmarks of this response are the B cell and the T cell, which are responsible for ...

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Vascular plant collections and field data compiled during a one and a half year period for the upper Frio River, Texas, produced a flora that comprises 78 families, 223 genera and 319 species. Vascular plants were collected ...

Flotar en la viscosidad. Literatura cubana de los 90, is a dissertation that focuses on Cuban literature in the 90s as one of the stages of major changes and literary projections after 1959 in Cuba, as part of Latin American ...

Using aqueous micelles, reversed micells and surfactant vesicles as membrane mimetic agents and fluorescence measurements as a working tool, efficient energy, proton and electron transfer have been demonstrated. In aqueous ...

Cornmeal powder is used in the food industry to manufacture a variety of food products. The knowledge of its flow behavior and physical properties is critical for efficient design of storage and handling processes. Factors ...

Concern for the nonphysiologic energy required to actuate medical devices utilizing “smart material” properties of shape memory polymer (SMP) compels a rigorous investigation into the flow and temperature fields surrounding ...

Oil and gas transportation in cold regions, such as the Arctic and offshore, may encounter flow assurance issues that are caused by hydrates, wax, or even ice. To evaluate the effect of these solids on pipeline safety, ...

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The volume of heavy oil/bitumen recoverable worldwide is vast in quantity but difficult and energy intensive to extract due to the high in-situ oil viscosity of these unconventional plays. One method of thermal recovery, ...