The empty weight, starting weight and weight after 72 h fermentation of the tubes was measured to determine the net weight loss of the medium during the fermentation.
The acquisition of delayed MR data after contrast medium administration started with the intravenous administration of 0.1 mmol/kg body weight of the contrast medium Gd-EOB-DTPA with an infusion rate of 1.5 ml/s followed by a 30-ml saline bolus.
All patients received 3 mL/kg body weight of the contrast medium iobitridol (Xenetix 350; Guerbet, Germany) intravenously by a peripheral vein.
Cells on the upper side were stretched by the surface tension created by these conditions; cells on the lower side were compressed by the weight of the culture medium.
The former was based on Aristotelian Archimedean fluid dynamics and held that the speed of gravitational fall in a fluid medium was proportional to the excess of a body's specific weight over that of the medium, whereby in a vacuum, bodies would fall with speeds in proportion to their specific weights.
Sorted into three equal groups (low, medium, high) based on RG, the most efficient group (high) gained 0.62 and 1.70 kg more (P < 0.001) body weight than that of the medium and low groups, yet the feed intake for the high group was less (P < 0.05) than that of the medium group (19.52 vs. 19.75 kg).
After 4 weeks of culture on RD2 medium, the weight of the cultures on RD2 medium was evaluated.
Moreover, during cell cultivation, the weight of culture medium can easily deform such damaged membrane and cause a rough surface on the actuator layer although actuators are in the rest state.
In our design, an incompressible liquid, i.e., glycerin, is used as the working fluid since it helps preventing membrane deformation at rest state, due to the weight of culture medium.
The effects of molecular weight and shear viscosity of the medium on the percolation of CNTs are demonstrated separately.
