A novel and cost-effective experimental setup for high-temperature material testing and gas-surface interaction characterization is presented. A 3-kW radiative heating laser has been installed and paired with the 500-...
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The University of Tennessee’s 500-kW pulsed arcjet tunnel is being upgraded to a quasicontinuous flow hypersonic facility for aerothermal testing, characterization of advanced high-temperature materials, and fundamen...
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This research aims to demonstrate a novel vortex ultrasound enabled endovascular thrombolysis method designed for treating cerebral venous sinus thrombosis(CVST).This is a topic of substantial importance since current...
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This research aims to demonstrate a novel vortex ultrasound enabled endovascular thrombolysis method designed for treating cerebral venous sinus thrombosis(CVST).This is a topic of substantial importance since current treatment modalities for CVST still fail in as many as 20%to 40%of the cases,and the incidence of CvST has increased since the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 *** with conventional anticoagulant or thrombolytic drugs,sonothrombolysis has the potential to remarkably shorten the required treatment time owing to the direct clot targeting with acoustic ***,previously reported strategies for sonothrombolysis have not demonstrated clinically meaningful outcomes(e.g.,recanalization within 30 min)in treating large,completely occluded veins or ***,we demonstrated a new vortex ultrasound technique for endovascular sonothrombolysis utilizing wavematter interaction-induced shear stress to enhance the lytic rate *** in vitro experiment showed that the lytic rate was increased by at least 64.3%compared with the nonvortex endovascular ultrasound treatment.A 3.1-g,7.5-cm-long,completely occluded in vitro 3-dimensional model of acute CVST was fully recanalized within 8 min with a record-high lytic rate of 237.5 mg/min for acute bovine clot ***,we confirmed that the vortex ultrasound causes no vessel wall damage over ex vivo canine *** vortex ultrasound thrombolysis technique potentially presents a new life-saving tool for severe CVST cases that cannot be efficaciously treated using existing therapies.
Activated carbon is known as an amorphous compound that can be manufactured from carbon-containing raw materials. It has a high adsorption capacity and is widely used in a variety of fields due to its high surface are...
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In this study, nerve conduits of chitosan and collagen composites with biocompatibility and biodegradability were fabricated. The effects of material composition and surface morphology on the axonal growth and directi...
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In this work, emission spectroscopy measurements of a non-equilibrium expanding flow were acquired along the nozzle of a pulsed arcjet wind tunnel, operated with a pure nitrogen (N2) flow. Starting from the plenum cha...
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Nanocarrier and exosome encapsulation has been found to significantly increase the efficacy of targeted drug delivery while also minimizing unwanted side ***,the development of exosome-encapsulated drug nanocarriers i...
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Nanocarrier and exosome encapsulation has been found to significantly increase the efficacy of targeted drug delivery while also minimizing unwanted side ***,the development of exosome-encapsulated drug nanocarriers is limited by low drug loading efficiencies and/or complex,time-consuming drug loading ***,we have developed an acoustofluidic device that simultaneously performs both drug loading and exosome *** synergistically leveraging the acoustic radiation force,acoustic microstreaming,and shear stresses in a rotating droplet,the concentration,and fusion of exosomes,drugs,and porous silica nanoparticles is *** final product consists of drug-loaded silica nanocarriers that are encased within an exosomal *** drug loading efficiency is significantly improved,with nearly 30%of the free drug(e.g.,doxorubicin)molecules loaded into the ***,this acoustofluidic drug loading system circumvents the need for complex chemical modification,allowing drug loading and encapsulation to be completed within a matter of *** exosome-encapsulated nanocarriers exhibit excellent efficiency in intracellular transport and are capable of significantly inhibiting tumor cell *** utilizing physical forces to rapidly generate hybrid nanocarriers,this acoustofluidic drug loading platform wields the potential to significantly impact innovation in both drug delivery research and applications.
Surface Electromyography(sEMG)plays a key role in many applications such as control of Human-Machine Interfaces(HMI)and neuromusculoskeletal *** has strongly nonlinear relations to joint kinematics and reflects the su...
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Surface Electromyography(sEMG)plays a key role in many applications such as control of Human-Machine Interfaces(HMI)and neuromusculoskeletal *** has strongly nonlinear relations to joint kinematics and reflects the subjects’intention in moving their *** relations have been traditionally examined by either integrated biomechanics and multi-body dynamics or gesture-based classification ***,these methods have drawbacks that limit their *** from them,joint kinematics can be continuously reconstructed from sEMG via estimation approaches,for instance,the Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs).The Comparison of different ANNs used in different studies is difficult,and in many cases,*** current study focuses on fairly evaluating four types of ANN over the same dataset and conditions in proportional and simultaneous estimation of 15 hand joint angles from 10 sEMG *** presented ANNs are Feedforward,Cascade-Forward,Radial Basis Function(RBFNN),and Generalized Regression(GRNN).Each ANN is applied to its special parametric *** the methods efficiently solved the regression problem of the complex multi-input multi-output *** RBFNN has the best performance over the others with a 79.80%mean correlation coefficient over all joints,and its accuracy reaches as high as 92.67%in some ***,the highest accuracy over individual joints is 93.46%,which is achieved via the *** good accuracy suggests that the proposed approaches can be used as alternatives to the previously adopted ones and can be employed effectively to synchronously control multi-degrees of freedom HMI and for general multi-joint kinematics estimation purposes.
This study employs wavelength modulated spectroscopy (WMS) single-laser line velocimetry to characterize the velocity and gaseous properties within a Mach 6.5 arcjet tunnel at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. W...
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Wearable healthcare devices are expected to greatly improve the quality of human life by providing continuous health monitoring, remedying weakened or lost body or organ functions, and sometimes enabling superhuman ca...
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