Adherence was evaluated by measuring the critical load in the point where the first coating delamination occurs.
For Germany, critical loads are available for lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd) and mercury (Hg), taking into account both potential health effects and ecotoxic effects by measuring the maximum load of ecosystems.
Other sophisticated methods such as the autonomous triaxial and high-pressure triaxial tests can give a good quantitative measure of shale fluid interaction by measuring the axial load, sample deformation, cell and pore pressures, but they are tedious and intensive processes (Mody et al. 2002).
Effort must be made to conduct an international comparative case-control study in DHF endemic or hyper-endemic countries/areas with a range of prevalence of G6PD deficiency, by measuring the viral load and immunity in G6PD-deficient patients versus controls during the infecting process at various times following infection, as well as associated clinical outcomes.
To investigate whether Btk is important in anti-LM responses, we infected Btk −/− mice with LM intraperitoneally and estimated the severity of infection by measuring the bacterial load in the spleen and liver, and the serum IFN-γ level within 7 days post-infection.
Contributions from chemical bonding, bearing resistance, and frictional resistance to bond were delineated by measuring the following: the load corresponding to complete debonding of the bar, the load corresponding to onset of sliding and pullout of the bar along the entire embedment length, and the frictional load corresponding to frictional resistance to sliding.
From nano-scratch tests we evaluate the adhesion by measuring the critical loads for first elastic cracking and first delamination.
The whole biocover CH4 oxidation efficiency was determined by measuring the CH4 inlet load and CH4 surface fluxes.
Two viscoelastic properties were determined for each type of graft (n = 10) by measuring the decrease in load under a constant displacement (i.e., stress relaxation test) and the increase in displacement under a constant load (i.e., creep test).
By measuring the intestinal LF82 load subsequent to removal of the nematodes from LF82-containing agar plates (Figure 2B) we demonstrate that LF82 bacteria are capable of resisting clearance by peristalsis and even capable of increasing in number as the infection progressed.
