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2018-02-20

Wiley-Blackwell

1942-2466

Geography

Geosciences

2018-02-20

Wiley-Blackwell

1942-2466

Geography

Geosciences

2018-02-27

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM)

0022-538X

1098-5514

Medicine

2013-04-27

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

0036-8075

1095-9203

Biology

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Computer Science

Medicine

Natural Sciences in General

Physics

Agouti Signaling Protein/metabolism ; Animals ; Birds/*anatomy & histology/physiology ; Cell Differentiation ; Cell Lineage ; Cell Proliferation ; Chickens/anatomy & histology/physiology ; Columbidae/anatomy & histology/physiology ; Feathers/*cytology/growth & development ; Female ; Galliformes/anatomy & histology/physiology ; Male ; Melanocytes/*cytology/physiology ; Models, Biological ; *Pigmentation ; Regeneration ; *Stem Cell Niche ; Stem Cells/*cytology/physiology

2018-06-16

Institute of Physics (IOP)

1757-8981

1757-899X

Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics

2018-01-28

BMJ Publishing

2044-6055

Medicine

Open access, Intensive care

2011-02-19

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

0036-8075

1095-9203

Biology

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Computer Science

Medicine

Natural Sciences in General

Physics

1089-7550

AIP Digital Archive

Physics

A new quantum-confined Stark shift structure, the step-coupled well, is introduced. The feature of the new structure is using a square well of only one quantum state to enhance the Stark shift of the step well. The design rule of 10-μm modulator is suggested. The transfer matrix technique is used for numerical calculation. Numerical results show that the new structure produces a larger Stark shift (13 meV) than the step well (7 meV) under the same bias (20 kV/cm). A lower electric field is thus needed for the step-coupled well to produce the same Stark shift, so that the leakage problem can be minimized and a high switching speed can be achieved.

Electronic Resource

1077-3118

AIP Digital Archive

Physics

Diamond stripes were successfully grown on the P+ ion implanted Si(100) substrate without the diamond abrasives pretreatment. The pattern of a transmission line model (TLM) was used to define the shape of the diamond stripes on Si(100). Lateral resolution of diamond stripes depended on the thickness of SiO2 on the patterned Si(100) substrate. The width of each diamond stripe was about the same as that of the corresponding SiO2 open window for the SiO2 layer of 18 000 and 9000 A(ring). A critical SiO2 thickness existed for diamond stripe deposition on the implanted Si(100), below which good spatial resolution of diamond stripes could not be achieved.

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1077-3118

AIP Digital Archive

Physics

The resistance of the BF2+ ion implanted polycrystalline diamond film drifted higher with time when the diamond film was exposed in air. The reliable resistance of the implanted diamond film could be obtained after the heat treatment at high temperature under vacuum. Temperature dependence of the reliable resistance of the BF2+ ion implanted diamond film indicated two activation energies within the temperature range from room temperature to 400 °C. The effect of gas exposure on the resistance of the implanted diamond film was discussed.

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1077-3118

AIP Digital Archive

Physics

Very good quality of polycrystalline diamond films with different major facets were grown on the Si(100) substrates at different position of the plasma ball in a microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition chamber. Pt/BF+2 ion implanted polycrystalline diamond contacts were fabricated to examine the effect of diamond facets on their electrical properties. The Pt/diamond contact exhibited Schottky characteristics for the diamond film with major facet (100). In contrast, the Pt/diamond contact exhibited ohmic behavior for the diamond film with major facet (111). The I-V characteristics of the Pt/BF+2 ion implanted polycrystalline diamond contacts were not reliable if the diamond facet factor was not considered.

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1077-3118

AIP Digital Archive

Physics

Diamond deposition on an anisotropic etched Si and ion implanted Si surfaces have been examined here for the first time. Local facets on an anisotropic etched surface shows no nucleation of diamond. Synthetic diamond, in contrast, has been able to nucleate on an As+ or Si+ ion implanted Si substrate without diamond abrasive pretreatment. Selective deposition of diamond occurs only for low dose ion implantation, 100 keV 1014 cm−2, but not for high dose ion implantation, 100 KeV 1016 cm−2. Strain is proposed as the main reason for nucleation of diamond on the ion implanted Si substrates.

Electronic Resource

1089-7666

AIP Digital Archive

Physics

It is shown that the sufficient conditions for stability established by Fung [Phys. Fluids 29, 368 (1986)] for the stratified vortex flows with velocity and density distribution varying in both the radial and axial directions can never be satisfied except for a trivial case, i.e., the solid body rotation. However, an estimate of the growth rate can still be made based on the technique developed by Fung.

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1398-9995

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

Background: The capacity of inflammatory cells to adhere involves an array of adhesion molecules, and is critical to the inflammatory responses seen in childhood asthma. We aimed to determine the changes of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and L-selectin expressed on peripheral blood (PB) T lymphocytes and natural killer (NK) cells in asthmatic children with acute exacerbation and after prednisolone therapy.Methods:  Flow cytometric analysis was performed to determine the expression of ICAM-1 (CD54) and L-selectin (CD62L) on T (CD3+) cells and NK (CD3–/CD56+) cells of PB from children with allergic asthma with acute exacerbation and in a stable condition after prednisolone therapy. Atopic subjects without asthma and age-matched controls were also included for comparison.Results:  Percentages of PB non-CD3, CD56+ NK cells, but not CD3+ T cells, increased in asthmatic children with acute exacerbation, compared to those assessed in a stable condition after a course of prednisolone. However, significant decrease of ICAM-1 (P = 0.01) and L-selectin (P = 0.01) expression on PB NK cells, but not on T cells, were found in children with acute asthma compared to those in a stable condition. NK cells in children with acute asthma showed minimal expression of CD69 and CD25.Conclusions:  Results suggests that either NK cells expressing ICAM-1 and L-selectin selectively migrated into inflamed lung tissues, or subsets of NK cells not expressing ICAM-1/L-selectin were expanded during acute exacerbation of childhood asthma.

Electronic Resource

1365-2133

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Medicine

Electronic Resource

0021-9673

Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Electronic Resource

0040-6090

Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002

Physics

Electronic Resource

1432-0428

Atherosclerosis ; cell death ; cell mitosis ; endothelium ; Evans blue-albumin ; permeability ; streptozotocin diabetes

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Medicine

Summary Hypertension, cigarette smoking and diabetes mellitus are well-known risk factors for atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Repeated endothelial cell injury and increased lipid entry have been suggested as initiating events in atherogenesis. Our previous studies have demonstrated that the frequency of endothelial cell death and associated endothelial permeability were significantly increased in the aorta of spontaneously hypertensive rats and chronic oral nicotine-treated rats. In the present investigation, we examined the hypothesis that diabetes also increases the frequency of arterial endothelial cell death and hence transendothelial macromolecular transport, which may have some implications in increasing lipid entry and thus accelerating atherogenesis. Diabetes was induced in 15 male Sprague-Dawley rats by intraperitoneal injection of 60 mg streptozotocin per kg body weight. The duration of diabetes was 6 weeks. A group of 15 age-matched rats, injected only with the buffer and maintained over the same time period, served. as the controls. In en face preparations of the thoracic aorta, IgG-containing dead endothelial cells were identified by an indirect immunoperoxidase method, and endothelial leakage to Evans blue-albumin complexes was quantified by fluorescence microscopy. Diabetic rats, compared to control rats, had significantly higher values for the frequency of endothelial cell death (0.77±0.10% vs 0.38±0.04%;p〈0.005 by two-tailed, unpaired Student'st-test) and the number density of Evans blue-albumin leaky foci (4.33±0.48/mm2 vs 2.99±0.38/mm2;p〈0.05 by two-tailed, unpairedt-test) in the aorta. It is concluded that, similar to the situations in hypertension and nicotine consumption, the observed increase in the frequency of endothelial cell death and macromolecular permeability to large molecules in the aorta in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats suggest that these changes may contribute to accelerated atherogenesis in diabetes.

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1573-4803

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics

Abstract Owing to solute redistribution by a liquid phase analogue of diffusion-induced grain-boundary migration metastable and anti-phase domain boundary-bearing tetragonal (t′) phase was seen to occur in the cubic (c) matrix grain of sintered (1400 °C, 2 h) and furnace-cooled yttriapartially stabilized zirconia (Y-PSZ) specimens (TZ3Y + 12Y-PSZ in molar ratios of 4:1, 1:1 and 1∶4). In contrast to that formed by rapid cooling, t′-phase formed by slow cooling shows no deformation accommodation twins. Subsequent ageing at 1100 °C for up to 240 h caused the formation of finely tweed (c) and tetragonal (t) assemblages at the expense of coarse tweed t′-phase in the 12Y-PSZ grains. The absence of secondary deformation twins in the t′-phase formed by slow cooling is discussed.

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1573-4803

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics

Abstract The mild sliding wear behaviour of a 15 vol % Al2O3P/6061 Al composite has been investigated by using a pin-on-disc reciprocating sliding machine. The composite has been shown to exhibit an excellent wear resistance as compared to the unreinforced matrix alloy. The wear rate of the composite under dry wear conditions with a 12N load is approximately one tenth of that in the 6061 aluminium alloy. The wear rate of the composite under lubrication with 15W/40 gear oil under a 100N load is only one thousandth ofthat in the 6061 aluminium alloy. The dry wear resistance of an over-aged sample is shown here to be better than a peak aged or under-aged sample when the composite was aged at 160°C. The coefficient of friction of the composite was approximately 0.5–0.6 under dry conditions and 0.07 in lubricated wear experiments. In the initial stage, the worn surface of the composite under dry conditions is primarily composed of ploughed grooves and ductile tear. The composite makes a conducting contact with the steel pin. The worn surface is composed of compacted powder and the contact potential gradually increases when the period of the wear experiment goes beyond 2 h.

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