Electron paramagnetic resonance

Like any other cells in the body, when neurons are activated they consume glucose and oxygen to fuel their activity and they produce metabolic waste. According to Sadock, Sadock, and Ruiz (2015), a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) device works from this principal by using high magnetic fields and radio frequencies to indicate activity. The fMRI helps the medical professional to peer into brain activity, not by measuring brain activity directly, but by observing the flux of oxygen…

Technical Review of Hydrothermal Formation of Calcium Copper Tetrasilicate Introduction Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is used to obtain close-up images of samples with depth enabling high quality, 3D depictions on a microscopic level. It has been historically used to identify samples of interest such as bacterial biofilm, microtexture surfaces, and even cancer cells for diagnosis.[1, 2, 3] The first high magnification SEM was reported in a journal in 1938 by Ardenne after developing the…

3.2 Analysis of chip formation Fig. 7 shows the chip forms obtained during milling of the Al7075 (a) and MMCs (b) using the uncoated carbide inserts at a feed rate of 0.1 mm/tooth, machining speed of 290 m/min and axial depth of cut of 1.3 mm. The Al7075 chips formed during milling exhibited a smooth and shiny surface, and were in a semicircular and parabolic trapezoidal wave with a small radius and a saw-tooth-form, as shown in Fig. 7 (a). Fig. 7 (b) shows the chip shapes formed during the…

The development of advanced microscopes has enabled scientists to further their investigation on the criteria for life. As a result, biologists have been confronted with a baffling question: is there a size limit on life? If so, then just how small can something be before it can no longer be considered alive? Ever since the discovery of nano-sized particles called “nanobacteria” or “nanobes”, researchers have been scrambling to unravel and analyze the mysterious functions of these purported…

3.1.3 FESEM and EDS analysis The structural morphology of the Pure HA, Sr-doped HA, La-doped HA and La/Sr co-doped HA (different La concentrations of 0.03, 0.06 and 0.1M) nanoparticles are analyzed by FESEM images are shown in Fig. 3 (a)-(f). The morphology of pure HA shown in Fig 3 (a) indicates that formation of spherical (or) chain pearl shape of nanoparticles, ranging from 70 to 84nm. Further, Sr (0.1M) doped HA and La (0.1M) doped HA belongs to Fig.3 (b)-(c), appears the formations of few…

The modern brain-imaging techniques have provided the opportunities for the psychologist to investigate the active brain. The brain-imaging technologies are useful in neuropsychology as they allow the researchers to examine the active brain. The brain-imaging technologies also enable the researchers to see where specific brain activities happen, therefore to study the localisation of function in the living brain. The correlations between activity and behaviour can be provided as well, even…

activity of a chloroplast electron transport chain. The two choices that were available for us to investigate was broccoli and pea seedlings. Our group was nominated to utilize 20 grams of broccoli florets to find fractions that composed of an abundance of chloroplast. Project 1 had 3 parts to it; this consists of fractionation of cell homogenates, assay for chloroplast-specific electron transport chain activity, and testing factors that affect activity of the chloroplast electron transport…

ATP synthase is completely reliant on the generation of a proton gradient by the electron carriers in the membrane, such as quinine or cytochromes. Further to this it has been shown that both active and latent mycobacteria are reliant on the ATP generated by ATP synthase, and therefore an ideal target is to affect the proton gradient…

increases the MR signal but because it displaces the deoxygenated hemoglobin that had been suppressing the MR signal intensity . The change in the MR signal, because of the neuronal activity is termed as Hemodynamic Response (HDR). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a technique used to visualize…

The article I chose to explore and summarize for this assignment was ‘Voluntary attention modulates fMRI activity in human MT-MST’, by O’Craven, K.M., Rosen, B.R., Kwong, K.K., Triesman, A., & Savoy, R.L. The basic theory behind this study is that the visual system receives copious amounts of information. Attention permits the visual system to pinpoint a “subset” of that information for further processing and attention, dependent on either the properties of the stimulus (bottom up processing) or…