The evolutionarily conserved fungal arginine attenuator peptide (AAP), as a nascent peptide, stalls the translating ribosome in response to the presence of a high concentration of the amino acid arginine. Here we examine whether the AAP maintains regulatory function in fungal, plant, and animal cell-free translation systems when placed as a domain near the N terminus or internally within a larg...

A reflective-type polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystal (PSCLC) cell was demonstrated at 1⁄4 1550 nm laser wavelength. It showed a high attenuation range ( 30 dB), a low operating voltage ( 12Vrms), a highly efficient polarizationindependent behavior and flat wavelength dependence in the range of 1525–1575 nm. The combined effects of curing temperature, chiral dopant, and monomer concen...

This paper presents a monolithically integrated broadband lumped-element Wilkinson power divider centered at 20 GHz, which was designed and fabricated to uniformly distribute power to arrays of Josephson junctions (JJs) for superconducting voltage standards. This solution achieves a fourfold decrease in chip area, and a twofold increase in bandwidth (BW) when compared to the previous narrowband...

It is demonstrated that direct ultraviolet writing of waveguides is a method suitable for mass production of compact variable optical attenuators with low insertion loss, low polarization-dependent loss, and high dynamic range. The fabrication setup is shown to be robust, providing good device performance over a period of many months without maintenance.

We have constructed both homoduplex and heteroduplex restriction fragment templates that contained mutations in the G + C-rich region of dyad symmetry in the Escherichia coli thr operon attenuator and have studied their termination properties in an in vitro transcription system. We found that the DNA sequence of the template strand determines the transcription termination efficiency. We also co...

In this paper, a new gain control scheme is proposed for a digital on-channel repeater (DOCR) with a feedback interference canceller (FIC) in Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (DTTB) networks. In the proposed scheme, a variable attenuator is placed behind the amplifier of the DOCR and the least mean square (LMS) adaptive algorithm is implemented in the FIC to estimate the feedback cha...

It was previously reported that transcription of the Rhizobium meliloti trpE(G) gene starts at the adenine residue of the AUG codon of the leader peptide coding sequence (trpL), suggesting that translation of the trpL sequence starts without the Shine-Dalgarno sequence. We constructed mutations replacing the AUG codon of the trpL sequence with AAG or ACG. These mutations reduced the expression ...

This paper presents a core chip design in SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor base for X-band phased array Transmit/Receive (T/R) module. Usually phase shifters for X-band application were done by using of GaAs technique. Some commercial GaAs products for this type of integrate circuits are considered. The structure of the Core Chip for Phased Array T/R Modules is presented. Methods for the ...

A variable optical attenuator (VOA) based on polymer stabilized twisted nematic (PSTN) liquid crystal (LC) is demonstrated. Comparing with the normal twisted nematic LC-based VOA, PSTN exhibits a much faster response time. Moreover, the polymer networks effectively eliminate the backflow effect which exists in the normal TNLC cell. The attenuation mechanism of the PSTN LC was studied. Both pola...