Anisotropy

parindent{ }Traumatic brain injury is a significant health problem in the United States that is estimated to occur in 1.6-1.8 million persons annually (citealt{faul2010}). Diffuse axonal injury is %the most frequently occurring a common type of traumatic brain injury primarily characterized by damage to the axons (citealt{smith2000, Gennarelli1982}). An improved understanding of the pathophysiology of diffuse axonal injury is needed to develop improved diagnostic tools, protective measures and

Neri Oxman Introduction Over the long trajectory of architectural design history, the design and production of artifacts has been characterized by the growing separation of form-making from its natural foundations in material conditions. In contradistinction to craft production (Sennett 2008) in which material and form are naturally intertwined into a tradition of making, modern design and production have historically evolved away from this integration towards the compartmentalization of form-making

from the rigid molecules, including chitins. These results led us to hypothesize that chitin forms the rigid scaffold whereas glucans form a relatively mobile matrix. We will also measure transverse and longitudinal relaxation times, chemical shift anisotropy, and dipolar couplings with site-specific resolutions. The combined measurements cover a wide range of motions happening from nanoseconds to milliseconds, including both local reorientation and collective motion of multiple sugar rings. It is particularly

techniques are essential tools for measuring the dynamics of molecules in living cells and can be used to approach a variety of biological questions. The microscopy techniques applied in our lab can be subdivided into Time-resolved Fluorescence Anisotropy (TRFA) and Fluorescence Bleaching Techniques A combination of these complementary methods allows for a comprehensive analysis on multiple length and time scales. The microscope is intended to work in two modes, these are: single photon counting

Until Up to 2010 maximum of 50 stages of hydraulic fractures have been reported for openhole completions in Bakken shale (Themig 2010). It seems that more fracture stages can completely deplete the reservoirs (Soliman, Hunt and Azeri 1999) (Ozkan et al. 2009), but is no evidence to confirm that ultimate production increases proportionally with the increase in the number of fracture stages. Thus, it is significantly important to optimize a design in which the necessity of creating each stages has

Most structural, dynamical, or thermodynamical properties in many materials certainly originate from complex interatomic interaction potentials. (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) 1–3 (-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) An important aspect that needs to be clarified concerns the specific impact of some key features of the potential such as softness, attraction, anharmonicity, well depth, or well location. Computer molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are ideally suited to the pursuit

One limitation of the available literature on adolescent and the affect of alcohol consumption on white matter development is the confounding factor of marijuana and other drugs usage in conjunction to alcohol (Elofson et al., 2013). This confounding factor makes it difficult to isolate the effect of alcohol alone. The co-occurrence of marijuana use is significant among adolescents (Falk, Yi, & Hiller-Sturmhöfel, 2008) and as such it is hard to separate which substance affects what. Additionally

With advent of scientific research and technological interest, multiferroic materials have drawn much attention for foundational physics, technological application in possible miniaturization and integration for multifunctional devices (e.g. magnetic field sensors, multiple state memory element, transducers, actuators, broadband magnetic sensors, non-volatile memory elements, oscillators, phase shifters, electric field controlled ferromagnetic resonance devices, switching devices, modulation of amplitudes

TBI termed as Traumatic Brain Injury is an intracranial injury that often occurs when an external force is applied on the brain. A 1.4 million people, every year in the United States experience TBI, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [2]. Approximately 5.3 million Americans live with long-term disability as a result of TBI [4]. Advancements in the field of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has helped image TBI better. Techniques like Susceptibility Weighted Imaging

cannot be changed easily to another axis so that they are referred to as hard [2]. Barium hexaferrite (BaFe12O19) as a famous M-type hard ferrite with a magnetoplumbite structure has relatively high Curie temperature, coercive force and magnetic anisotropy field, along with high chemical stability and corrosion resistivity [3]. Hexaferrite materials have attracted interest of both scientific and industrial community due to the wide range of applications. Permanent magnets [4], electrical and microwave