Ant-Man and The Wasp: Microscale Respiration and Microfluidic Technology

Insects and other terrestrial arthropods, benefitting from millions of years of evolutionary refinement, manipulate fluids efficiently, including their bodily fluids, air, nectar, and water, at the microscale in their daily lives. Microfluidic technology, though far behind insect fluid handling in terms of performance, is a rapidly developing field, which allows traditional laboratory testing spaces, occupying hundreds of square meters, to be shrunk down to chips occupying less than a square centimetre. These lab-on-a-chip microfluidic devices are positioned to revolutionize fields like exoplanetary composition testing and single cell biology studies, and can provide inexpensive, ubiquitous environmental monitoring and global health testing. Microfluidic technology, in addition, has the potential to bridge the gap between Ant-Man and the Wasp’s human respiratory apparatuses, and the more optimal ones that insects use to breath at the microscale, to help them overcome issues when they shrink in their suits like the “death zone dilemma” and a relative air density similar to that near the peak of Mt. Everest

La modernidad decimonónica

1 archivo PDF (12 páginas)Se definen los rasgos esenciales del país mexicano en su tránsito hacia la modernidad, se expone como después de la novedad violenta del siglo XVI, esta se vuelva costumbre, el temor a Dios y a sus ministros en la tierra recordaba a los creyentes su lugar predestinado en la vida y los probables castigos después de la muerte. Sin embargo durante la Guerra de Independencia el Estado obliga a muchos, con sus acciones, a cuestionar el mundo estático, ordenado, guiado por un plan divino inexorable. Si en algún momento pueblo mexicano ha sentido la necesidad imperiosa de modernizarse, fue a lo largo del siglo XIX, alentado por la confianza en los beneficios de una libertad y de una democracia que se creyeron al alcance de la mano. Tomusduo

Low maternal exposure to ultraviolet radiation in pregnancy, month of birth, and risk of multiple sclerosis in offspring: longitudinal analysis

Objectives To investigate the distribution of month of birth in people with multiple sclerosis in Australia. To use the large regional and seasonal variation in ambient ultraviolet radiation in Australia to explore the association between exposure to ultraviolet radiation during pregnancy and subsequent risk of multiple sclerosis in offspring