Charged particle production has been studied in deep inelastic scattering (DIS) using an integrated luminosity of about 0.44 fb−1 taken with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The fragmentation properties of the struck quark in deep inelastic scattering have been investigated in the current fragmentation region of the Breit frame as a function of the exchanged boson virtuality Q. The measured evolution...

The understanding of laser beam propagation through underdense plasmas is of vital importance to laser-plasma interaction experiments, as well as being a fundamental physics issue. Formation of plasma channels has numerous applications including table-top xray lasers and laser-plasma-produced particle accelerators. The fast ignitor concept, for example, requires the formation of an evacuated ch...

Introduction: Energetic particles and plasma dynamics in the near-Earth space environment can significantly impact operation of both military and civilian systems. The underlying physical mechanisms relevant to two important space plasma issues, radiation belt dynamics and auroral ionospheric space weather, are under investigation in the NRL Space Physics Simulation Chamber (SPSC). Plasma condi...

The pkd1 and pkd2 genes encode for the proteins polycystin-1 (PC1) and polycystin-2 (PC2). These genes are mutated in patients diagnosed with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. PC1 and PC2 interact via their C-terminal, cytosolic regions, which is an essential step in the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation. Here, we developed an assay that allowed us to quantitative...

The Earth’s atmosphere is an environment replete with particles of differ-ent sizes with various refractive indices which affect the light radiation traveling through it. The Mie scattering theory is one of the well-known light scattering techniques ap-plicable to modeling of electromagnetic scattering from tiny atmospheric particles or aerosols floating in the air or within the clouds. In this...

The so-called extended law of corresponding states, as proposed by Noro and Frenkel [J. Chem. Phys. 113, 2941 (2000)], involves a mapping of the phase behaviors of systems with short-range attractive interactions. While it has already extensively been applied to various model potentials, here we test its applicability to protein solutions with their complex interactions. We successfully map the...

Scaled particle theory for a binary mixture of hard discorectangles and for a binary mixture of hard rectangles is used to predict possible liquid-crystal demixing scenarios in two dimensions. Through a bifurcation analysis from the isotropic phase, it is shown that isotropic-nematic demixing is possible in two-dimensional liquid-crystal mixtures composed of hard convex bodies. This bifurcation...

Finland’s Slot Machine Association (RAY) has recently undergone a major transformation from a steady operator of slot machines to an agile innovator of new games and concepts. As a key part of this transformation, agile methods used in product development teams have been scaled up to the organizational level using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). To help analyze the development in the organizatio...