Prevalence of hepatitis B and C virus infections among haemodialysis patients in Pune (western India)

Vascular injuries may occur as complications of elbow dislocation and usually involve the brachial artery. A case report is presented in which only the radial artery was compromised as a result of the dislocation.     

Applications of a super element model for non-linear analysis of stiffened box structures

Numerical investigations are carried out to verify the new super element model developed in Reference 1 for non-linear analysis of stiffened box structures. The results presented here are obtained from a variety of examples which are chosen to illustrate the accuracy and convergence of the model in various applications. Good agreement is obtained for most of the problems considered and the present formulation is found to be accurate and economical for preliminary engineering design.     

SiC（w）／TZP＋mullite陶瓷复合材料界面和组成设计与力学性能

本文从理论上分析了ＳｉＣ（ｗ）ＴＺＰ＋ｍｕｌｌｉｔｅ（ｐ）复合材料界面残余热应力及其在基质内的分布规律。提出在ＳｉＣ（ｗ）表面涂复Ａｌ２Ｏ３和在ＰＺＴ中加入ｍｕｌｌｉｔｅ（ｐ）联合作用来降低晶须／基质界面残余热应力的界面设计方案，导出ＳｉＣ（ｗ）和ｍｕｌｌｉｔｅ（ｐ）协同补强ＰＺＴ的匹配条件。制备了ＳｉＣ（ｗ）／ＴＺＰ＋ｍｕｌｌｉｔｅ（ｐ）复合材料并了ＳｉＣ（ｗ）表面涂层Ａｌ２Ｏ３厚度和ＳｉＣ（ｗ     

Iodo-2'-deoxyuridine (IUdR) and 125IUdR loaded biodegradable microspheres for controlled delivery to the brain

The aim of this work was to develop sustained local release systems for radioiodinated iodo-2'-deoxyuridine (125IUdR) from biodegradable polymeric microspheres to facilitate the controlled delivery of 125IUdR to brain tumours. The selective uptake of IUdR into the cell nucleus results in cell disruption over the short range of the low energy Auger electrons. The biodegradable microspheres can be precisely implanted in the brain by stereotactic techniques and the IUdR within the microspheres is protected from degradation and thus a sustained source of radiolabelled IUdR is available in the vicinity of the residual tumour cells. Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid), PLGA (85:15), microspheres containing cold IUdR and the Auger-electron emitter 125I, as 125IUdR were prepared using the O/W, O/O and W/O/W emulsion-solvent evaporation methods. The W/O/W emulsion method was most effective in achieving good drug loading with the use of bovine plasma in the internal water phase. Also effective in improving the drug loading was the use of 20% acetone in the dichloromethane and the presence of Span 40 in the organic phase. Electrolytes (NaCl and IUdR) in the external aqueous phase also improved drug loading. After an initial rapid release from the microspheres, a sustained release was observed over 15 days for the 'cold' IUdR. The sustained release portions of the release curves showed Higuchi (t1/2), diffusion controlled release kinetics. The radiolabelled IUdR microspheres showed a burst release effect of 30-40% followed by a sustained release over 35 days.     

PP－g－AA的制备和表征

用熔融接枝方法制备了聚丙烯－ｇ－丙烯酸（ＰＰ－ｇ－ＡＡ）。用光电子能谱，广角Ｘ射线衍射，红外光谱和化学滴定方法对接枝物进行了定性和定量表征。讨论了单体和引发剂浓度对接枝率的影响，确定了用红外光谱法测定接枝物含量的经验公式     

CF/ABS树脂复合材料制备工艺对导电性能的影响及对屏蔽性能的理论预测

本文研究了使用溶剂法、密炼机和开炼机混炼碳纤维填充ABS树脂复合材料的导电性能,得到了纤维填充量与复合材料电阻率的关系,对其导电机理进行了分析.通过比较,发现纤维长径比是决定复合材料导电性能的重要因素,其它如纤维在基体中的分布也对复合材料导电性能有影响.最后对复合材料的屏蔽性能进行了理论计算.     

Tuning of MST neurons to spiral motions

Cells in the dorsal division of the medial superior temporal area (MSTd) have large receptive fields and respond to expansion/contraction, rotation, and translation motions. These same motions are generated as we move through the environment, leading investigators to suggest that area MSTd analyzes the optical flow. One influential idea suggests that navigation is achieved by decomposing the optical flow into the separate and discrete channels mentioned above, that is, expansion/contraction, rotation, and translation. We directly tested whether MSTd neurons perform such a decomposition by examining whether there are cells that are preferentially tuned to intermediate spiral motions, which combine both expansion/contraction and rotation components. The finding that many cells in MSTd are preferentially selective for spiral motions indicates that this simple three-channel decomposition hypothesis for MSTd does not appear to be correct. Instead, there is a continuum of patterns to which MSTd cells are selective. In addition, we find that MSTd cells maintain their selectivity when stimuli are moved to different locations in their large receptive fields. This position invariance indicates that MSTd cells selective for expansion cannot give precise information about the retinal location of the focus of expansion. Thus, individual MSTd neurons cannot code, in a precise fashion, the direction of heading by using the location of the focus of expansion. The only way this navigational information could be accurately derived from MSTd is through the use of a coarse, population encoding. Positional invariance and selectivity for a wide array of stimuli suggest that MSTd neurons encode patterns of motion per se, regardless of whether these motions are generated by moving objects or by motion induced by observer locomotion.     

BEM 系列原油流动性改进剂的应用

对BEM系列原油流动性改进剂的基本原理以及在中洛、濮临、东临、东黄、鲁宁、魏荆等几条原油长输管道工业应用的现场测试情况进行了介绍。结果表明，BEM系列原油流动性改进剂在降低原油凝点和粘度方面性能良好，能满足管道安全，平稳运行的要求。     

面向表面微加工工艺的微器件设计框架的研究

本文以微器件设计为对象，对微硅表面制造驱动的微器件并行设计方法学及相应的计算机辅助设计工具的开发逻辑进行了研究，提出了采用基于三层Web-ASP集成框架实现e-CAD原型工具的编程方案，其中，并行任务流管理与控制，微器件实例及设计资源库，微加工工艺规划及仿真，微器件设计评价等是该系统实现的关键要素，在此基础上将建立网上微器件设计中心，并通过应用服务机制，实现对微器件设计工具使用的商务化，以达到降低设计成本，加快MEMS产业化之目的。