Publications by authors named "W R Jamieson"
Reclaiming Resilience Through Granular Arbitrage: Anticipating Sea Level Rise in Singapore.
Crit Asian Stud
October 2024
Over the last sixty ears, Singapore has expanded its land footprint over twenty-five percent by reclaiming land from the sea. Its outsized demand for sand to resource these projects has rendered regional sand markets precarious, and successive countries have banned sand exports to Singapore. Nevertheless, the Singapore government has committed to spending $SG one billion (US$ 767 million) a year until 2100 to mitigate sea level rise.
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- Microfluidic-microwave devices (MMDs) are effective tools for analyzing small amounts of liquids quickly and accurately, but creating them is challenging due to the need to combine fluid and electronic components.
- A new 3D-printing technique has been developed that uses liquid metal for electrical conductivity and specific polymers as dielectric materials, showcasing excellent performance for high-frequency applications.
- The study shows that these 3D-printed MMDs can be utilized for advanced testing, such as characterizing water-in-oil emulsions and forming complex droplet interface layers, highlighting their potential in materials science and biochemistry research.
Droplet Interface Bilayers (DIBs) constitute a commonly used model of artificial membranes for synthetic biology research applications. However, their practical use is often limited by their requirement to be surrounded by oil. Here we demonstrate in-situ bilayer manipulation of submillimeter, hydrogel-encapsulated droplet interface bilayers (eDIBs).
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- The PROSE trial aimed to compare the On-X mechanical prosthesis with the St Jude Medical mechanical prosthesis for thromboembolic complications.
- The study involved 855 subjects across 28 centers from 2003 to 2016 and found no significant differences in thromboembolism or mortality rates between the two prostheses at the 5-year mark.
- Notable differences were observed in valve thrombosis occurrences based on valve position and between Western and Developing populations, with Developing populations experiencing more complications, particularly in the mitral valve position.
Intracellular compartments are functional units that support the metabolism within living cells, through spatiotemporal regulation of chemical reactions and biological processes. Consequently, as a step forward in the bottom-up creation of artificial cells, building analogous intracellular architectures is essential for the expansion of cell-mimicking functionality. Herein, we report the development of a droplet laboratory platform to engineer complex emulsion-based, multicompartment artificial cells, using microfluidics and acoustic levitation.
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