32 results about "Electron micrographs" patented technology

Expandable polystyrenic resin particles having superior resistance to cracking of a molded foam product, having superior retention of blowing agent and maintaining expandability over a long period of time, a production process thereof, and a molded foam product are provided. These expandable polystyrenic resin particles contain a volatile blowing agent in polystyrenic resin particles obtained by impregnating and polymerizing a styrenic monomer in polyolefin resin particles to form a polystyrenic resin, wherein together with the styrenic monomer being used at 140 to 600 parts by weight to 100 parts by weight of the polyolefin resin particles, the average thickness of the surface layer observed in scanning electron micrographs obtained by immersing sections cut into halves through the center from the surface of the resin particles in tetrahydrofuran followed by extracting the polystyrenic resin component and capturing cross-sections of said sections is 15 to 150 μm, and the volatile blowing agent is contained at 5.5 to 13.0% by weight.

Negative-working lithographic printing plate precursor a negative-working imagable layer and an outermost water-soluble overcoat layer that is disposed directly on the negative-working imagable layer. The outermost water-soluble overcoat layer comprises: (1) one or more film-forming water-soluble polymeric binders, and (2) organic wax particles dispersed therein. The organic wax particles have an average largest dimension of at least 0.05 μm and up to and including 0.7 μm, as determined from a scanning electron micrographic of the dried outermost water-soluble overcoat layer. Useful organic wax particles include fluorinated or non-fluorinated hydrocarbon wax particles.

The invention relates to a method for evaluating the porosity of mud shale at an objective layer segment, and belongs to the technical field of exploration and development of petroleum, geology and mining industry. The method can be used for evaluating the total porosity, the organic porosity and the inorganic porosity of the mud shale at the objective layer segment in a shale gas well. The method comprises the following steps: (1) determining the mass of various ingredients in a mud shale sample skeleton in unit mass at each depth point of the objective layer segment and the density of each dried sample block body and calculating the total porosity of the mud shale in all the depth points via the combination of the actual density of various minerals; (2) calculating the organic porosity (Phi organic') formed by the hydrocarbon generation of the mud shale at the objective layer segment by utilizing chemical kinetics; (3) seeking a solution of the organic porosity (Phi organic) according to scanning electron micrographs of multiple argon ion polishing samples in the same depth point; (4) calibrating the organic porosity (Phi organic') calculated according to the chemical kinetics by utilizing the organic porosity (Phi organic); and (5) seeking a solution of the inorganic porosity by utilizing a difference value of the total porosity and the calibrated organic porosity.

The invention discloses an automatic measuring and morphological classification method for particles precipitated from steel, comprising the steps as follows: firstly, the electron micrographs of the target particles precipitated from steel are subjected to image binary segmentation so as to obtain the binary images of the particles; the binary images of the target particles are denoised by a morphological filtering method, a seed filling method is adopted to fill holes, and the particles to be separated are determined by the domain value determined by experience criterion and the separation of agglomerate particles is carried out; the particles after separation are subjected to region labeling; finally, the neural network morphological classification models of the target particles precipitated from steel are established; and results are displayed and output in the form of graph files. The method can obtain ideal measuring and classification effect without omission inspection and re-inspection; the measurement accuracy of particle size can reach plus or minus 2 microns, the particle size distribution anastomotic rate can be more than 91.7 percent, and the anastomotic rate of morphological classification can be more than 90.5 percent; the particle measuring and classification of one view field cost only a few minutes; and the method has excellent universality and can be used in all the particle measuring and classification works with complex backgrounds and morphologies in the material field and biological field.

A common mode choke coil exhibiting greater reliability against moisture load includes a nonmagnetic layer made of glass, magnetic layers placed in a manner sandwiching the nonmagnetic layer, and two or more coil conductors embedded in a base material constituted by the nonmagnetic layer and magnetic layers, wherein Mg segregation is present in the nonmagnetic layer and the Mg segregation accounts for 0.5 to 16 percent of the total area as observed on an electron micrograph of a section of the nonmagnetic layer, while the size of Mg segregation is preferably 0.2 to 10 μm.

Phototropin is a blue light receptor, which mediates a variety of blue-light elicited physiological processes in plants and algae. In higher plants these processes include phototropism, chloroplast movement and stomatal opening. In the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, phototropin plays a vital role in progression of the sexual life cycle and in the control of the eye spot size and light sensitivity Phototropin is also involved in blue-light mediated changes in the synthesis of chlorophylls, carotenoids, chlorophyll binding proteins. We compared the transcriptome of phototropin knock out (PHOT KO) mutant and wild-type parent to analyze differences in gene expression in high light grown cultures (500 μmol photons m−2 s−1). Our results indicate the up-regulation of genes involved in photosynthetic electron transport chain, carbon fixation pathway, starch, lipid, and cell cycle control genes. With respect to photosynthetic electron transport genes, genes encoding proteins of the cytochrome b6f and ATP synthase complex were up regulated potentially facilitating proton-coupled electron transfer. In addition genes involved in limiting steps in the Calvin cycle Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase / oxygenase (RuBisCO), Sidoheptulose 1,7 bisphosphatase (SBPase), Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (3PGDH) and that mediate cell-cycle control (CDK) were also up regulated along with starch synthase and fatty acid biosynthesis genes involved in starch and lipid synthesis. In addition, transmission electron micrographs show increased accumulation of starch granules in PHOT mutant compared to wild type, which is consistent with the higher expression of starch synthase genes. Collectively, the altered patterns of gene expression in the PHOT mutants were associated with a two-fold increase in growth and biomass accumulation compared to wild type when grown in environmental photobioreactors (Phenometrics) that simulate a pond environment. In conclusion, our studies suggest that phototropin may be a master gene regulator that suppresses rapid cell growth and promotes gametogenesis and sexual recombination in wild type strains.

The method is for the identification and characterization of structures in electron micrographs. Structures in a first image are selected. The structures have a first shape type deformed in a first direction. The selected structures are transformed to a second shape type different from the first shape type. The transformed structures of the second shape type are used to form a plurality of templates. A new structure in a second image is identified. The new structure has the first shape type. The second shape type structure of each template is deformed in the first direction. It is determined which template is a preferred template that best matches the new structure.

The invention discloses a construction method and application of a transgenic mouse with increased blood-brain barrier permeability. The method for constructing transgenic engineering mice with increased blood-brain barrier permeability includes modifying the gene to increase the expression of slit protein, and obtaining a transgenic animal model with increased blood-brain barrier permeability. The study found that the overexpression of slit protein caused enlargement of the lateral ventricles of mice, severe damage to the structure of the choroid plexus, and loss of tight junctions of epithelial cells. Observing the vascular structure of the brain of Slit-Tg mice by immunofluorescence staining found that the cerebral vascular bifurcation was less, and the microvessels were more, and the shape of the blood vessels was incomplete and the distribution was irregular. Transmission electron micrographs also showed that the endothelial cells of Slit-Tg mice were damaged, extremely irregular, and the vascular basement membrane was incomplete. Evans? blue? The assay detected the increased permeability of the mice, indicating that the blood-brain barrier permeability of Slit-Tg mice was increased, which can be applied to the animal experiments of central nervous system drugs for the screening, development and efficacy evaluation of neurological drugs.

The method is for dividing dark objects, sub-structures and background of an image from an electron microscope into segments by analyzing pixel values. The segments are transformed and aligned so that the transformed objects, sub-structures and background are meaningfully comparable. The transformed segments are clustered into classes which are used for ontological investigation of samples that are visualized by using electron microscopy. A triangle inequality comparison can be used to further cluster groups of objects to transfer understanding from different interactions between objects and to associate interactions with each other.

The invention relates to metrology of semiconductor devices in electron micrographs using fast marching level sets. Apparatuses and methods for metrology on devices using fast marching level sets are disclosed herein. An example method at least includes initiating a fast marching level set seed on an image, propagating a fast marching level set curve from the fast marching level set seed to locate boundaries of a plurality of regions of interest within the image, and performing metrology on the regions of interest based in part on the boundaries.