By the use of limited trypsin digestion of purified virions, we generated a membrane anchor-free and crystallizable form of the tick-borne encephalitis virus envelope glycoprotein E. It retained its reactivity with a panel of monoclonal antibodies, and only subtle structural differences from the native protein E were recognized. Treatment with the bifunctional cross-linker dimethylsuberimidate ...

Image compression has many applications. For example, it is an important step for distributed and network based pattern recognition. For real time object recognition or reconstruction, image compression can greatly reduce the image size, and hence increase the processing speed and enhance performance. Fractal image compression is a relatively recent image compression method. Its basic idea is t...

The energy absorbing capability is one of the most important aspects of crushing behavior of a structure subjected to axial impact. In this paper, a simple practical method is introduced to enhance the crushing behavior of this kind of structure. The axial impact of metallic energy absorbing thin-walled tubes with special shaped cross-section is simulated using LS-DYNA software. The effect of c...

Nanocrystals of ZnO were prepared by microwave irradiation using Zn (II) acetate and triethanol amin (TEA) as the starting materials and water as solvent. The nanocrystals of ZnO with hexagonal (Wurtzite) structure were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), UV-Vis absorption and FTIR Spectroscopy techniques.

3-phenyl-propynenitrile (PPN) adsorbs on Cu(111) in a hexagonal network of molecular trimers formed through intermolecular interaction of the cyano group of one molecule with the aromatic ring of its neighbor. Heptamers of trimers coalesce into interlocking pinwheel-shaped structures that, by percolating across islands of the original trimer coverage, create the appearance of gear chains. Densi...

Septoku is a Sudoku variant invented by Bruce Oberg, played on a hexagonal grid of 37 cells. We show that up to rotations, reflections, and symbol permutations, there are only six valid Septoku boards. We show that the minimum number of starting seeds for a Septoku puzzle to have a unique solution is six. We generalize the puzzle to other board shapes, and devise a 6-seed puzzle on a star-shape...

The drag coefficient, CD, of an arbitrary shaped object ca;; be calculated by twodimensional hydrodynamic cellular automata. Results spanning nearly four orders of magnitude in the Reynolds number (0.I < Re < 10~) are presented for a simple, hexagonal object, and good quantitative agreement with previous experiments on cylinders is obtained. Hydrodynamical cellular automata (IIDCA), also called...

The synthesis of hexagonal ring-shaped structures of zinc oxide using nanosphere lithography and metal/metal oxide sputtering is demonstrated. This synthesis exploits the surface re-emission of zinc oxide to deposit material in regions lying out of the line-of-sight of the sputtering source. These rings can nucleate the hydrothermal growth of zinc oxide crystals. Control over the growth could b...