Abstract In this paper, centrifuge-based microfluidic platforms are reviewed and compared with other popular microfluidic propulsion methods. The underlying physical principles of centrifugal pumping in microfluidic systems ...

▪ Abstract  This paper reviews rock friction and the frictional properties of earthquake faults. The basis for rate- and state-dependent friction laws is reviewed. The friction state variable is discussed, including its ...

The Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology (LCP) began in 1950 as the Section of Pharmacology within the National Heart Institute, the National Institutes of Health. Its first chief was Bernard B. Brodie, considered by many ...

▪ Abstract  This article reviews some aspects of the roles that laboratory experiments have played in the study of orographic effects in the Earth's atmosphere and oceans. The review focuses on, but is not restricted to, ...

▪ Abstract  Since 1980, studies of the wage labor process have been centered mostly on three topics: the new international division of labor, control over the labor process, and “flexibilization” of production. Anthropologists ...