It is presented an advanced, consistent theoretical scheme for determination of the energy and spectral characteristics Auger process (decay, transition) in atomic systems solids with correct accounting relativistic nuclear effects. As basic approach to calculating spectra there used a method, based on S-matrix formalism by Gell-Mann Low many-body perturbation theory formalism. Universal Dirac-...

Recent developments in the nuclear data libraries used by the ORIGEN-S isotope generation and depletion code have enabled the extension of the code to accurately predict the delayed energy release rates from nuclear decay (decay heat) at very short cooling times of interest to reactor accident analysis. Historically this time domain has required integral methods, such as the ANS5.1 decay heat s...

Study of the neutrinoless ββ decay allows us to put a stringent limit on the effective neutrino Majorana mass, a quantity of fundamental importance. To test our ability to evaluate the nuclear matrix elements that govern the decay rate, it is desirable to be able to describe the allowed two-neutrino decay. It is argued that only low-lying virtual intermediate states are important for that proce...

The presented paper discusses the theory and results of direct experimental investigation of the control of internal electron conversion channel of radioactive isotopes spontaneous decay by controlling action of oriented crystal matrix on motion of conversion electrons. The same effect takes place at any β-processes (including at decay of a neutron with an emission of electrons and neutrino). I...

The present Special Issue is dedicated to the long-sought-after nuclear process known as Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (NDBD), a transition characterized by simultaneous decay of two neutrons into protons and electrons, without emission neutrinos [...]

The interpretation of genomic variants has become one of the paramount challenges in the post-genome sequencing era. In this review we summarize nearly 20 years of research on the applications of information theory (IT) to interpret coding and non-coding mutations that alter mRNA splicing in rare and common diseases. We compile and summarize the spectrum of published variants analyzed by IT, to...

The two-neutrino mode of double-beta decay in Se has been observed in a time-projection chamber at a half-life of (1.1 — +Q) X 1020 yr (68% confidence level). This result from direct counting confirms the earlier geochemical measurements and helps provide a standard by which to test the double-beta-decay matrix elements of nuclear theory. It is the rarest natural decay process ever observed dir...

An unexpected link has been discovered between pre-mRNA splicing in the nucleus and mRNA localisation in the cytoplasm. The new findings suggest that recruitment of the Mago Nashi and Y14 proteins upon splicing of oskar mRNA is an essential step in the localisation of the RNA to the posterior pole of the Drosophila oocyte.

A protein complex deposited upstream of exon-exon junctions after pre-mRNA splicing may serve a dual role in mRNA quality control by directing mRNA nuclear export and, possibly, serving as a downstream 'mark' for nonsense-mediated decay.