We study the problem of globally stabilizing through saturated smooth time–varying measurement feedback a class of time–varying systems with measurement noise and uncertainties having an upper triangular structure (feedforward form). We propose a novel step–by step design, based on splitting a n–dimensional system Σ into n one– dimensional systems Σj , j = 1, . . . , n, finding a smooth time– v...

The affine synthesis operator Sc = ∑j>0 ∑k∈Zd cj,kψj,k is shown to map the coefficient space (Z+ × Zd ) surjectively onto Lp(Rd ), for p ∈ (0, 1]. Here ψj,k(x) = | det aj |ψ(aj x − k) for dilation matrices aj that expand, and the synthesizer ψ ∈ Lp(Rd ) need satisfy only mild restrictions, for example, ψ ∈ L1(Rd ) with nonzero integral or else with periodization that is real-valued, nontrivial ...

The mitochondrial contact site and cristae junction (CJ) organizing system (MICOS) dynamically regulate mitochondrial membrane architecture. Through systematic proteomic analysis of human MICOS, we identified QIL1 (C19orf70) as a novel conserved MICOS subunit. QIL1 depletion disrupted CJ structure in cultured human cells and in Drosophila muscle and neuronal cells in vivo. In human cells, mitoc...

BACKGROUND Opportunities for community members to actively participate in policy development are increasing. Community/citizen's juries (CJs) are a deliberative democratic process aimed to illicit informed community perspectives on difficult topics. But how comprehensive these processes are reported in peer-reviewed literature is unknown. Adequate reporting of methodology enables others to judg...

Separable codes were introduced to provide protection against illegal redistribution of copyrighted multimedia material. Let C be a code of length n over an alphabet of q letters. The descendant code desc(C0) of C0 = {c1, c2, . . . , ct} ⊆ C is defined to be the set of words x = (x1, x2, . . . , xn) T such that xi ∈ {c1,i, c2,i, . . . , ct,i} for all i = 1, . . . , n, where cj = (cj,1, cj,2, . ...

Detonation propagation in a compressible medium wherein the energy release has been made spatially inhomogeneous is examined via numerical simulation. The inhomogeneity is introduced via step functions in the reaction progress variable, with the local value of energy release correspondingly increased so as to maintain the same average energy density in the medium, and thus a constant Chapman Jo...

[1] The coast of central Chile is characterized by intermittent low-level along-shore southerly wind periods, called coastal jets (CJs). In this study, we take advantage of long-term satellite data to document the CJs characteristics over 2000–2007 and investigate its impact on upwelling. The CJ structure has a core some 100 km from the shore and a cross-shore scale of 160 km, and it usually la...

Sindbis virus (SV) is an alphavirus that causes acute encephalomyelitis in mice. The outcome is determined by the strain of virus and by the age and genetic background of the host. The mortality rates after infection with NSV, a neurovirulent strain of SV, were as follows v: 81% (17 of 21) in BALB/cJ mice; 20% (4 of 20) in BALB/cByJ mice (P < 0.001); 100% in A/J, C57BL/6J, SJL, and DBA mice; an...

The synthesis of the spiroacetal-containing anti-Helicobacter pylori agents (3S,2''S,5''S,7''S)- (ent-CJ-12,954) and (3S,2''S,5''R,7''S)- (ent-CJ-13,014) has been carried out based on the convergent union of a 1:1 mixture of heterocycle-activated spiroacetal sulfones and with (3S)-phthalide aldehyde . The synthesis of the (3R)-diastereomers (3R,2''S,5''S,7''S)- and (3R,2''S,5''R,7''S)- was also...

We predict that initially produced χ cJ mesons at low transverse momentum in the central rapidity region are almost dissociated by nucleons and antinucleons in hadronic matter produced in central Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies √ s N N = 130 and 200 GeV. In calculations the nucleon and antinucleon distributions in hadronic matter are results of evolution from their freeze-out distributions wh...