Various medical devices (such as catheters and guide wires) need hydrophilic coatings to reduce friction for maneuvering through blood vessels. They did so by studying hydrophilic, lipophilic, free-soluble and insoluble-bound phenolic extracts, using a lipoxygenase/4-nitroso-N,N-dimethylaniline (LOX/RNO) technique.
The clock rate typically refers to the frequency at which a chip like a CPU(central processing unit), one core of a multi-core processor, is running and is used as an indicator of the processor's speed. It is measured in the SI unit hertz.
Speedup: The speed of a program is the time it takes the program to excecute. This could be measured in any increment of time. Speedup is defined as the time it takes a program to execute in serial (with one processor) divided by the time it takes to execute in parallel (with many processors). The formula for speedup is: