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An in-situ method of extracting contaminants from a soil volume comprises applying a radiofrequency (RF) excitation signal to heat the soil with an array of electrodes. The electrodes are inserted into the contaminated volume or inserted into a matrix of holes drilled into the volume. A first row of electrodes is electrically coupled to a shield of a coaxial cable, with a second row electrically coupled to the central conductor of the coaxial cable. RF energy is applied to pairs of electrode rows through the coaxial cable and a matching network is installed in front of the electrode-row pair to maximize power flow into the electrode-row pair. This results in very evenly distributed voltages which results in even heating. A balanced-to-unbalanced transformer (balun) is installed at the input to the matching network to prevent the deposition of RF energy outside the target volume and creation of voltages that could be hazardous to personnel. The electrodes are perforated and connected to collection tubes which collect volatilized contaminant vapors and pass the vapors to a vapor treatment unit for neutralization.
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Thermal drug treatment of tumor tissue is obtained by attaching a thermally active drug to carrier molecules which have an affinity to tumor tissue. Localized heating is performed on the tumor tissue, thereby activating the drug in the tumor tissue. The end result may be concentrated delivery of a drug to a chosen tissue, or, in the case where the drug creates a toxin when heated, selective tissue destruction of a selected locations heated. The localized heat may be applied by focused ultrasound heating.
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A method is provided for making ordered monolayers of macromolecules. A supported lipid polylayer is contacted with macromolecules in an aqueous polar solution and allowed to incubate.
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Polystyrene particles having attached antigen and high electrophoretic mobility, and polystyrene particles having attached antigen and low electrophoretic mobility, when paired in a common solution with antibodies specific to the antigen, give rise to a particle population of intermediate electrophoretic mobility when measured by the Doppler shift of scattered laser light, thereby signaling presence of the antibodies in the solution.
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A method of rapidly detecting presence of antibodies in a solution comprises depositing, on each of a plurality of microscopic particles, an antigen specific to the antibodies sought, and forming a dilute suspension of the particles in the solution to be examined. The suspension is stirred, and electrophoretic mobility of the particles is measured upon formation of the suspension and measured again at a subsequent time. Detection of a change in electrophoretic mobility of the particles between the two measurements indicates presence of the antibodies in the solution.
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Polymeric contrast agents are used to monitor myocardial neovascularization. The agent is injected and images of the myocardium are obtained at various time intervals after injection. Localized image enhancement indicates an area of increased angiogenesis.
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In a mixture of two antibody-coated latex particle suspensions, the particles in each suspension being of a different size, respectively, absence of antigen specific to the antibody in the mixture leaves multiplets only of one and the other sizes of particles. Presence of antigen in the mixture results in large particle/small particle coupling, which is detected by the resistive pulse method and indicates that an antigen-antibody reaction has occurred.
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Changes in electrophoretic mobility distribution of particles in an electric field, as determined by Doppler shifts of laser light scattered by the particles while undergoing oscillation, may be unambiguously measured when the electric field is produced by a frequency modulated square wave voltage. Diminished likelihood of potential ambiguities in the measurement is achieved by smoothing the scattered light spectra and reducing harmonic spectral structures.
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Reduction in electrophoretic mobility of antigen-coated microscopic polystyrene spheres due to an antigen-antibody reaction is detected by observing changes in oscillation amplitude of speckle patterns (i.e., regions of light and dark) produced by laser light scattered by the particles as they are driven back and forth by a square wave electric field.
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A method is provided for forming ordered macromolecular protein arrays by avoiding a binding pathway that leads to densely packed, disordered states during protein crystal growth, by a diffusion limited process or by allowing controlled growth to occur by removal of the initial supported protein layer to a different environment.