DNA is increasingly being used as the engineering material of choice for the construction of nanoscale circuits, structures, and motors. Many of these enzyme-free constructions function by DNA strand displacement reactions. The kinetics of strand displacement can be modulated by toeholds, short single-stranded segments of DNA that colocalize reactant DNA molecules. Recently, the toehold exchang...

| Many multimedia applications require the synthesis of facial expressions. We demonstrate the synthesis of di erent degrees of various 2D grayscale facial expressions using the Radial Basis Function (RBF) neural network. The RBF network is used to generate spatial displacement of a set of facial feature points as in multidimensional density interpolation. We have implemented two RBF networks f...

This paper investigates the shear strength of municipal solid waste (MSW) using the back analysis of failed waste slopes as well as field and laboratory test results. Shear strength of MSW is a function of many factors such as waste type, composition, compaction, daily cover, moisture conditions, age, decomposition, overburden pressure, etc. These factors together with non-standardized sampling...

A method to predict the column size for displacement based design of reinforced concrete frame buildings with higher target inter storey drift is reported here. The column depth derived from empirical relation as a function of given beam section, target inter-story drift, building plan features and common displacement based design parameters is used. Regarding the high drift requirement, a mini...

This study investigates the binding kinetics of immobilized antibody in a solid-phase displacement immunosensor conducted in flow under nonequilibrium conditions. The experimental system studied employs a monoclonal antibody, specific for cocaine and its metabolite, benzoylecgonine, immobilized onto agarose beads. After saturation of antibody binding sites with the ftuorophore-labeled antigen, ...

NMR technique of modulated gradient spin echo makes possible to measure the power spectra of displacement and velocity autocorrelation functions of the air-fluidized granular beds. The obtained frequency distribution of displacement and velocity spectra at different degrees of fluidization leads to an empiric formula that well-fits to the experimental data and gives negative long-range tail of ...

A paper actuator was fabricated from poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with poly(4-styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT:PSS) by a wet process without organic solvents. The paper actuator had a capacitor structure, with a cationic polymer as an insulating layer sandwiched between two PEDOT:PSS films as the electrodes. The thickness of the paper actuator was approximately 36 m. We measured its displace...

Using a dynamic biomechanical model of malunion of the shoulder, we have determined the change in deltoid force required for abduction with various combinations of superior and posterior displacement of fractures of the greater tuberosity of the humerus. We tested eight fresh human cadaver shoulders in a dynamic shoulder-testing apparatus during cycles of glenohumeral abduction from 0 degrees t...

The threshold displacement energy ~TDE! is calculated for vanadium as a function of temperature and orientation by molecular dynamics simulations. The TDE varies from 13 to 51 eV, depending on orientation and is nearly temperature independent between 100 and 900 K. The lowest TDE is in the ^100& direction. We characterize the defects associated with the displacement simulations and found that t...

The occurrence of SH wave propagation under the effect of a point source in an orthotropic substratum lying over a heterogeneous orthotropic half space is deliberated in the prospect of a devastating earthquake. The quadratic alteration is acknowledged for density and shear modulus which is hypothesized to be a function of depth. The method of Green's function and transformation technique contr...