Western Blot analysis. Protein concentration was measured using BCA kit (Thermo Scientific, Rockford, IL, USA) and protein lysates were separated by SDS-PAGE and then blotted onto Hybond-C extra membranes (GE Healthcare, Buckinghamshire, UK) for Western blot analysis. Antigen-antibody reaction was detected using Super Signal West Pico and Femto chemiluminescent substrate kits according to manuf...

In this paper we present SCMS-ER: Small Cell Management System Emergency Recovery. SCMS-ER provides a way of backing up Small Cell Management System critical data across two geographic locations. It also provides a plan for replication of backup data so that the client data is recoverable in the event of a disaster on the main site. Keywords—small cell, Femto cell, redundancy, geographic redund...

The diversity-multiplexing tradeoff (DMT) for interference networks, such as the interference channel, the X channel, the Z interference channel and the Z channel, is analyzed. In particular, we investigate the impact of rate-splitting and channel knowledge at the transmitters. We also use the DMT of the Z channel and the Z interference channel to distill insights into the “loud neighbor” probl...

Ultra small scale satellites have a very demanding and limited mass and power budget specification; therefore, mostly the design constraints prevent the use of small scale camera. In this paper, an imaging capturing subsystem is proposed for ultra small satellite, which includes low power consumption components; the developed imaging capturing subsystem was studied, simulated and successfully i...

A Fiber Bragg grating of 369 nm pitch was inscribed in a germanium-free double-clad ytterbium doped silica fiber using a femto-second pulse train at 400 nm wavelength and a phase mask. The photo-induced refractive index modulation of higher than 4 x 10(-3) was obtained and the accompanying photo-induced losses were subsequently removed by thermal annealing, resulting in a low loss (<0.1 dB), st...

We develop and test a thermally activated state transition technique for ultraweak force measurement. As a force sensor, the technique was demonstrated on a classical Brownian bead immersed in water and restrained by a bistable optical trap. A femto-Newton-level flow force imposed on this sensor was measured by monitoring changes in the transition rates of the bead hopping between two energy st...

The interaction of sub-picosecond laser pulses with magnetically ordered materials has developed into an extremely exciting research topic in modern magnetism. From the discovery of sub-picosecond demagnetization over a decade ago to the recent demonstration of magnetization reversal by a single 40 fs laser pulse, the manipulation of spins by ultrashort laser pulses has become a fundamentally c...

Y. Pennec,1, ∗ B. Djafari Rouhani,1 E. H. El Boudouti,1, 2 C. Li,1 Y. El Hassouani,1 J. O. Vasseur,1 N. Papanikolaou,3 S. Benchabane,4 V. Laude,4 and A. Martinez5 Institut d’Electronique, de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, UMR CNRS 8520,Université de Lille 1, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Laboratoire de Dynamique et d’Optique et des Matériaux, Université d’Oujda, Morocco Institute of Micro...

The absorption length for photon propagation in highly concentrated colloidal dispersions calculated from temporal intensity profiles of 100 femto-second pulses is much longer than the absorption length obtained from the measurements of static light transmission in the pure continuous phase fluid. The difference between these two values is explained on the basis of small interparticle spacing a...

We have used continuous-wave cavity ring-down and femto-Fourier transform-cavity-enhanced absorption spectrometers to record the spectrum of the OH-stretching + CH-stretching (ν1 + ν2) combination band in trans-formic acid, with origin close to 6507 cm(-1). They, respectively, allowed resolving and simplifying the rotational structure of the band near its origin under jet-cooled conditions (Tro...