Amantadine is known to block the M2 proton channel of the Influenza A virus. Here, we present a structure of the M2 trans-membrane domain blocked with amantadine, built using orientational constraints obtained from solid-state NMR polarization-inversion-spin-exchange-at-the-magic-angle experiments. The data indicates a kink in the monomer between two helical fragments having 20 degrees and 31 d...

The small x behaviour of polarized parton distributions is related to non-leading reggeons in the framework of the high-energy effective action. Double-logarithmic contributions to the reggeon interaction beyond the ones included in the GLAP equation are encountered in all polarized parton distributions. The transversity distributions of quarks and gluons behave similar at small x. 1 Parton dis...

Liquid crystal tunable filters can provide rapid and vibrationless section of any wavelength in transmitting spectrum so that they have been broadly used in building multispectral or hyperspectral imaging systems. However, the spectral range of the filters is limited to a certain range, such as visible or near-infrared spectrum. In general hyperspectral imaging applications, we are therefore fo...

Characteristic polarization state theory is restudied for the symmetric coherent Sinclair scattering matrix case. First, the geometric relations of the characteristic polarization states on the Poincaré sphere are derived. Based on these relations, simple formulas are given for all of the characteristic polarization states of this Sinclair matrix in Stokes vector form. From the formulation, it ...

We present a dynamic model of "scal policy in a simple growth framework where social polarization (of preferences) plays a central role in the evolution of "scal instability and growth collapse. In a highly polarized society, a de"cit occurs endogenously, "scal spending path becomes more volatile, output collapses, and economic growth rate is reduced along the transition path to a new lower lev...

Measurements of the gluon polarization ∆G G via the open charm channel and based on the helicity asymmetry of large transverse-momentum hadrons in the final state are presented. The data have been collected in the years 2002-2004 by the COMPASS experiment at CERN using a 160 GeV/c polarized muon beam scattered off a polarized 6LiD target. The new result for ∆G G from the charm channel is −0.57 ...

Laser wakefield accelerators have great potential as the basis for next generation compact radiation sources because of their extremely high accelerating gradients. However, X-ray radiation from such devices still lacks tunability, especially of the intensity and polarization distributions. Here we propose a tunable polarized radiation source based on a helical plasma undulator in a plasma chan...

The key objective of this work was to obtain a MIMO model for a Line of Sight (LOS) channel component as well as the covariance matrix for a Non LOS deployment. A Maximum Likelihood Criteria is applied to obtain a LOS Spatial Signature Vector and a NLOS Covariance Matrix derived from channel measurements taken in the 2GHz UMTS spectrum for an urban deployment in Bristol (UK). Different user equ...

Land mobile satellite can exploit multiple input multiple output techniques to achieve high transmission rates. This article evaluates, theoretically, the capacity of the single input multiple output system utilizing uniform linear arrays at the receiver terminal for satellite applications. The theoretical study is performed at C-band and accounts for different shadowing conditions. Additionall...

This paper gives a study of 3-D channel parameters, i.e. azimuth, elevation directions at MS (DMS), and delay. Both vertical and horizontal polarizations were transmitted and received in the measurement. By observing the azimuth power spectrum density (APSD), the analysis of the spatio-temporal channel parameters including full polarimetric behaviors was conducted. Power spectrum density (PSD) ...