Collagen is a major structural component of the extracellular matrix that supports tissue formation and maintenance. Although collagen remodeling is an integral part of normal tissue renewal, excessive amount of remodeling activity is involved in tumors, arthritis, and many other pathological conditions. During collagen remodeling, the triple helical structure of collagen molecules is disrupted...

Background & Aims of the Study: Azo dyes are employed in industrial processes such as textile industry to create large quantities of colored sewages that have organic and non-organic materials. So, remediation of them is essential. In this project, degradation and mineralization of Acid red 14 (AR14) that is a mono Azo dye and widely used in the textile industries was investi...

An intensive in-house effort in the past year has produced coatings and devices that will survive the peak 35 1-nm fluence expected in the OMEGA Upgrade. The stringent ultraviolet requirements for the upgrade stem from the decision to place the frequency-conversion crystals in the laser bay (rather than at the target chamber).l At that time, only one report of satisfactory laser-damage threshol...

A broad class of supersymmetric extensions of the standard model predict a Z 0 vector boson whose mass is naturally in the range 250 GeV<MZ0<2 TeV. To avoid unacceptably large mixing with the Z, one requires either a discrete tuning of the U(1)0 charges or a leptophobic Z 0. Both cases are likely to arise as the low energy limits of heterotic string compacti cations, but a survey of existing re...

A broad class of supersymmetric extensions of the standard model predict a Z ′ vector boson whose mass is naturally in the range 250 GeV<MZ′<2 TeV. To avoid unacceptably large mixing with the Z, one requires either a discrete tuning of the U(1) charges or a leptophobic Z . Both cases are likely to arise as the low energy limits of heterotic string compactifications, but a survey of existing rea...

The “Care Delivery Frame (CDF)” presented here integrates two distinctly different applications, the home telehealth system and the remote photo sharing service of digital photo frame, to create a unique information channel for senior users who are not familiar with the operation of computers and Internet. In addition to health data monitoring, children or caregivers can “deliver care” to their...

We present first experiences from Local Area Artworks, a system enabling collaborative art interpretation on-site, deployed during an exhibition in a local art gallery. Through the system, we explore ways to re-connect people to local places by making use of their personal mobile devices as interfaces to the shared physical space. With a collocated collaborative writing system in the semi-publi...