Nanoimprint Lithography (NIL) has emerged as a promising nanopatterning technology in recent years. NIL uses a hard mold to mechanically deform the polymer resist material to create nanoscale patterns, which completely free itself from the resolution-limiting factors such as light diffraction or beam scattering that are often inherent with other more traditional approaches. Our recent work have...

Interleukin (IL)-16 is a proinflammatory cytokine that has attracted widespread attention because of its ability to block HIV replication. We describe the identification and characterization of a large neuronal IL-16 precursor, NIL-16. The N-terminal half of NIL-16 constitutes a novel PDZ domain protein sequence, whereas the C terminus is identical with splenocyte-derived mouse pro-IL-16. IL-16...

let $m_r$ be a non-zero‎ ‎module and ${mathcal f}‎: ‎sigma[m_r]times sigma[m_r]‎ ‎rightarrow$ mod-$bbb{z}$ a bifunctor‎. ‎the‎ ‎$mathcal{f}$-reversibility of $m$ is defined by ${mathcal‎ ‎f}(x,y)=0 rightarrow {mathcal f}(y,x)=0$ for all non-zero $x,y$‎ ‎in $sigma[m_r]$‎. ‎hom (resp‎. ‎rej)-reversibility of $m$ is‎ ‎characterized in different ways‎. ‎among other things‎, ‎it is shown‎ ‎th...

The mechanism of the chiral VANOL-BOROX Brønsted acid catalyzed aziridination reaction of imines and ethyldiazoacetate has been studied using a combination of experimental kinetic isotope effects and theoretical calculations. A stepwise mechanism where reversible formation of a diazonium ion intermediate precedes rate-limiting ring closure to form the cis-aziridine is implicated. A revised mode...

NIL is acronymic for "New Implementation of Lisp" (or possibly "Nil Is Lisp"). It is intended to be a modernization of the programming language LISP suitable in design for implementation on any of the current generation of large-address-space, low-cost computers; and maximally upward-compatible with MACLlSP, the dialect of LISP developed at the M.I.T Laboratory for Computer Science, and Artific...

We present the “big-step” operational semantics of a small programming language NIL (Natural Imperative Language) in definite clauses, thus building on the fixpoint semantics of logic programs. NIL operates on a state which is just a sequence of counters. As basic statements NIL has incrementation, decrementation and test for null. NIL allows for sequential composition and non-deterministic cho...

We study dynamical fluctuations in the macroscopic paths around most probable path of Kac ring model, which is a simple deterministic and reversible system exhibiting irreversible relaxation. derive form generating function for show that small deviations are described by discrete-time Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. also argue microscopic reversibility leads to fluctuation relation rate function, p...

BACKGROUND Nonselective nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibition has detrimental effects in sepsis because of inhibition of the physiologically important endothelial NOS (eNOS). The authors hypothesized that selective inducible NOS (iNOS) inhibition would maintain eNOS vasodilation but prevent acetylcholine- and bradykinin-mediated vasoconstriction caused by lipopolysaccharide-induced endothelial...