OBJECTIVE To determine the proportion of calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate (CPPD) crystals that appear as non-birefringent when observed under the polarised light microscope. METHODS Two observers ...
The analysis of synovial tissue offers the potential for the comprehensive characterization of cell types involved in arthritis pathogenesis. The studies performed to date in synovial tissue have made ...
1 Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Academic Medical Centre/University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Academic Medical ...
Their proposed method, outlined in a paper published in Nature Physics, relies on new diamond phononic crystals that they designed and fabricated, which can be used to engineer the local density ...
Fizzy Crystal in Hello Kitty Island Adventure is a valuable material to have in your inventory, especially as you'll need it for creating bubbly Soda Machine recipes to quench your thirst and ...
Conclusions We found that a remarkable percentage of coronary arteries and prostate specimens contained birefringent crystals. Crystal presence is an obvious prerequisite for possible crystal ...
The puzzle at the Northern Expedition Summit requires you to bring 4 Energy Crystals. The Green Energy Crystal can be collected from the NPC at the Cave near the second base camp. The Blue Energy ...
Liquid crystals are substances that flow like a liquid but maintain some of the ordered structure of crystals. Liquid-crystal molecules tend to be elongated and to orient in specific directions.
However, chirality in these materials is typically fixed during their formation—once a crystal is grown, its left- and right-handed forms, or enantiomers, cannot be switched without melting and ...