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The unique deformability and the compliance ability of thin sheets on soft substrates attract much interest for studying the phenomena related to elastic instabilities as well as for sensing very weak forces s...
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Recent Advancements and Perspective About Digital Holography: A Super-Tool in Biomedical and Bioengineering Fields
Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) has become a technique utilized widely for sample inspection, having many applications in different fields of science and technology. The capability for recovering the comp...
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Active accumulation of very diluted biomolecules by nano-dispensing for easy detection below the femtomolar range
Highly sensitive detection of biomolecules is of paramount interest in many fields including biomedicine, safety and eco-pollution. Conventional analyses use well-established techniques with detection limits ~...
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Sub-Micron Structuring of LiNbO3 Crystals with Multi-Period and Complex Geometries
Lithium niobate (LN) is a ferroelectric material which has attracted a considerable interest in different fields, such as the optical and the laser and communications industry, due to its excellent nonlinear o...
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Visual and Quantitative Characterization of Ferroelectric Crystals and Related Domain Engineering Processes by Interferometric Techniques
Nonlinear crystals are, nowadays, key devices to build coherent sources emitting radiation from the UV to the IR spectral range. Applications of nonlinear optics are primarily based on frequency conversion, th...
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Electro-Optical Devices Obtained by LiNbO3 Crystals
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) is a material of wide interest for both fundamental research and applications because of the richness of its physical properties. It is a ferroelectric, pyro-, and piezoelectric (PZ) m...
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Dispensing nano–pico droplets and liquid patterning by pyroelectrodynamic shooting
Manipulating and dispensing liquids on the micrometre- and nanoscale is important in biotechnology and combinatorial chemistry, and also for patterning inorganic, organic and biological inks. Several methods f...
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Visual and Quantitative Characterization of Ferroelectric Crystals and Related Domain Engineering Processes by Interferometric Techniques
Nonlinear crystals are, nowadays, key devices to build coherent sources emitting radiation from the UV to the IR spectral range. Applications of nonlinear optics are primarily based on frequency conversion, th...
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Sub-Micron Structuring of LiNbO3 Crystals with Multi-Period and Complex Geometries
Lithium niobate (LN) is a ferroelectric material which has attracted a considerable interest in different fields, such as the optical and the laser and communications industry, due to its excellent nonlinear o...
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Photolithography by a tunable electro-optical lithium niobate phase array
Photolithography experiments are performed by means of an optical phase mask with electrooptically tunable phase step. The phase mask consists of a 2-dimensional hexagonal lattice of inverted ferroelectric dom...
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Probabilistic Smf Tsunami Hazard Assessment For The Upper East Coast Of The United States
The level of tsunami hazard to the east coast of the United States is not well understood. This information is critical for the population, emergency services, and industry of the region. Assessing this hazard...
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Role Of Soil Behavior On The Initial Kinematics Of Tsunamigenic Slides
Recent investigations on tsunami generation from submarine mass failures show that one of the most important factors influencing the source characteristics of the wave is the initial acceleration of the failur...
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Genetical and Biochemical Studies on Three Halogenated Ethanes
Chlorinated ethanes as 1,1,1,2-tetrachloroethane (TTCE), hexachloroethane (HCE) and pentachloroethane (PCE) have a wide application in different fields and their use increases every yearl. They are used as accele...
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Genotoxicity of Chloroethanes and Structure-Activity Relationships
Chloroethanes are widely produced and utilized compounds and have extensive human exposure. All of them are recognized as being toxic causing damage to the major parenchymous tissues, such as liver, kidney and...
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Computation of Nonlinear Wave Kinematics During Propagation and Runup on a Slope
An efficient Boundary Element Method (BEM) solving fully nonlinear waterwave problems in the physical space has been developed in our earlier papers. Its detailed numerical features have been presented elsewhe...
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Computation of the Transient Flow in Zoned Anisotropic Porous Media by the Boundary Element Method
In this paper, we present new developments in the application of the BEM to the transient two-dimensional flows in zoned anisotropic porous media, including the iterative determination of the free surface seep...
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Computation of the Fluid Flow in Zoned Anisotropic Porous Media and Determination of the Free Surface Seepage
In this paper, we present new developments concerning the application of the Boundary Element Method, to the solution of the steady state two-dimensional flow in zoned anisotropic porous media, including the i...
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In vivo and in vitro binding of 1,2-dibromoethane and 1,2-dichloroethane to macromolecules in rat and mouse organs
The comparative interaction of equimolar amounts of 1,2-dichloroethane and 1,2-dibromoethane with rat and mouse nucleic acids was studied in both in vivo (liver, lung, kidney and stomach) and in vitro (liver m...
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Inverse relationship between anti-SV40 TASA and anti-H-2 cytotoxic responses
The in vitro cytotoxic response against H-2 d and H-2 b SV40-transformed fibroblasts was studied in a 40-h 3H-proline assay. A very low response against SV40 TASA is associated with the H-2d antigens on target ce...
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Wave Action on Floating Structures and Wave Propagation Using Finite Elements Method
Two problems are solved in this paper. The first study is calculating wave action forces on floating structures by means of a potential theory. The finite elements method is used to research water particles’ v...
