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Cast molding is an increasingly used manufacturing process for both rigid gas-permeable and hydrogel contact lenses. In this process, two molds, made from a variety of plastics, are used. A female mold forms the lens front surface (convex) and a male mold forms the lens back surface (concave). The plastic molds are made from metal tools or dies that are usually stainless steel, precision lathed, and polished to the specified lens design. A variety of mold materials are used. The polymerized, hardened lens is released from the mated molds and is processed in much the same way as the spin-cast lenses described above. 

Flexural strength is determined using beam-shaped specimens that are supported longways between two rollers. The load is then applied by either one or two rollers. These variants are called the three-point bend test and the four-point bend test, respectively. The stresses set up in the beam are complex and include compressive, shear and tensile forces. However, at the convex surface of the beam, where maximum tension exists, the material is in a state of pure tension (Berenbaum Brodie, 1959). The disadvantage of the method appears to be one of sensitivity to the condition of the surface, which is not surprising since the maximum tensile forces occur in the convex surface layer. 

Figure 15 Comparison of theory and experiment for the fractionation of oligoade-nylates on ion exchange materials, (a) Simulated chromatogram, (b) Observed chromatogram. An example of how theory is being used to attempt to optimize performance of ion exchange materials. The curve in (a) shows the nonlinear gradient development with a convex curvature. (Reproduced with permission of Elsevier Science from Baba, Y., Fukuda, M., and Yoza, N., J. Chromatogr., 458, 385, 1988.)...

Deoxycholic acid (DCA) (17) and apoeholic acid (ACA) (18) are typical examples of the bile acid family of materials, but with the unique property of forming inclusion compounds with a wide variety of guest molecules 92). Partly due to the cis ring junction between rings A and B, and partly due to the conformation of the steroidal side chain these compounds present a convex hydrophobic P-face and a concave hydrophilic a-face, as shown for DCA (19), a classical aid to the formation of inclusion compounds 93). 

The term f rin p/p° is clearly the chemical potential of a surface of radius r with respect to a flat surface of the same material as standard state. It follows that the difference in chemical potential between two surfaces, p1 — p11, where surface I is convex of radius n, and the other surface II is concave of radius r2 is given by... 

Note A related quantity is the flexural stress which is somewhat arbitrarily defined as the amplitude of the stress in the convex, outer surface of a material specimen in forced flexural oscillation. 

The TF-Mini and TF-156 compactors (Vector Corporation, Marion, Iowa, U.S.A.) were equipped with concavo-convex rolls and single flight screws. The roll speed of the TF-156 was scaled to achieve the same linear velocity 74.2 in./min as the TF-Mini model. This setting maintained a comparable dwell time for material in the compaction zone. The TF-156 roll force was scaled to 5.6 ton, which equaled a force per linear-inch approximately equal to the TF-Mini 3.1 ton/in. roll width. The authors established a feed screw speed to roll speed ratio of 1.3 1 for the trials. Table 7 gives the compactor equipment settings. 

Compressive measurements provide a means to determine specimen stiffness, Young s modulus of elasticity, strength at failure, stress at yield, and strain at yield. These measurements can be performed on samples such as soy milk gels (Kampf and Nussi-novitch, 1997) and apples (Lurie and Nussi-novitch, 1996). In the case of convex bodies, where Poisson s ratio is known, the Hertz model should be applied to the data in order to determine Young s modulus of elasticity (Mohsenin, 1970). It should also be noted that for biological materials, Young s modulus or the apparent elastic modulus is dependent on the rate at which a specimen is deformed. 

Both endocytosis of material at the plasma membrane and exocytosis from the Golgi apparatus involve the formation of clathrin-coated pits and vesicles. On the cytosolic side of the membrane these structures have an electron-dense coat consisting mainly of the protein clathrin, the polypeptides of which form a three-legged structure known as a triskelion. The clathrin triskelions assemble into a basket-like convex framework that causes the membrane to invaginate at that point and eventually to pinch off and form a vesicle. In endocytosis these clathrin-coated vesicles migrate into the cell where the clathrin coats are lost before delivering their contents to the lysosomes. 

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