High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a noninvasive treatment technique to induce thermal or mechanical bioeffects.Characterising the Wrapping wave field is essential for reliable and reproducible transducer operation in clinical use.This paper presents a schlieren technique to visualise and quantify transducer wave fields.The technique is ba
The ability to exogenously present cell-surface receptors in high-affinity conformations in a synthetic system offers an opportunity to provide host cells with protection from pathogenic toxins.This strategy requires improvement of the synthetic receptor binding affinity TUBE against its native counterpart, particularly with polyvalent toxins where
What if becoming information literate were an adventure? This question was posed in a keynote for the Creating Knowledge Conference 2021.It was answered in a thought piece by examining adventure-based ways to prepare students to be information literate adults through the principles and mechanisms that people find arousing and pleasurable and that a
This article investigates the relationship between the attributes and performance of mutual funds in Poland.The study employs classic measures of return and the most popular organizational factors discussed in the financial literature.By using a relatively large dataset of 152 equity Personal Care funds operating during the 2002-2015 period, we wer
Manufacturing sectors, including automotive, aerospace, military, and aviation, are paying close attention to the increasing need for composite materials with better characteristics.Composite materials are significantly used in industry owing to their high-quality, low-cost materials with outstanding characteristics and low weight.Hence, aluminum-b