Almost all soil slopes on land are initially unsaturated in nature. In order to determine the factor of safety of unsaturated slopes accurately, it is essential to calculate transient seepage and hence pore water pressures in the soil. To do so, one has to measure the so-called soil-water characteri.....
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Diabetic retinopathy is the damage to the retina caused by complications of diabetes mellitus, which can lead to blindness. It is an ocular manifestation of systemic disease which affects up to 80% of all patients who had diabetes for 10 years or more. Diabetic retinopathy could be reduced if there .....
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Cyclodextrins (CD) are cyclic glucose polymers with usually six (alpha), seven (beta) or eight (gamma) glucose residues. They are shaped like doughnuts with a hydrophobic cores and hydrophilic exteriors. Hydrophobic residues from drug molecules can sit inside the cavity and form a complex which may.....
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In the recent decades, JPEG, MPEG 1 and 2, which employ Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) for coding, are widely used. This trend keeps growing rapidly as handheld digital image/video cameras become more and more popular in recent years. On the other hand, another transform, Integer Cosine Transform (.....
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A catalyst comprising Pt-Co alloy, or Pt-Co-Sn alloy or Pt-Co>m<O>n< mixed metal oxides is disclosed to be used as a catalyst for the direct electrochemical oxidation of glucose or other simple sugars and carbohydrates at room temperature. The catalyst can be supported on metal electrode.....
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