Treatment of facial nerve injuries depends upon a detailed understanding of its anatomic course, accurate clinical examination, and timely and appropriate diagnostic studies. Reconstruction depends upon the extent of injury, the availability of the proximal stump. and the time since injury and duration of muscle denervation. Although no alternative is perfect, these techniques, in combination w...

Josephson junction arrays can be used as quantum channels to transfer quantum information between distant sites. In this work we discuss simple protocols to realize state transfer with high fidelity. The channels do not require complicate gating but use the natural dynamics of a properly designed array. We investigate the influence of static disorder both in the Josephson energies and in the co...

We describe a program to construct a model of a road junction using data from a single camera. The model specifies the ground plane orientation in camera coordinates and the positions of traffic lanes, and is obtained entirely from observations of vehicle movements, with no static image analysis. At present, the model is restricted to representing straight lane segments. We describe our methods...

Vortices play a central role in determining the static and dynamic properties of two-dimensional (20) superconductors. Artificially fabricated networks of superconducting islands weakly coupled by Josephson junctions are model systems to study the behavior of vortices. Studies of vortices in Josephson junction arrays generally neglect the magnetic fields induced by currents flowing in the array...

We have studied the electron-phonon (e-p) interaction in thin Cu and Au films at sub-Kelvin temperatures with the help of the hot electron effect, using symmetric normal metal-insulator-superconductor tunnel junction pairs as thermometers. By Joule heating the electron gas and measuring the electron and the lattice temperatures simultaneously, we show that the electron-phonon scattering rate fo...

The Philadelphia (Ph') chromosome in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) results in fusion of the bcr gene and c-abl oncogene, which transcribes into two types of chimeric bcr/abl mRNAs: the L-6 junction and the K-28 junction. By means of a highly sensitive assay, combination of reverse transcription and polymerase chain reaction (RT/PCR), we analyzed 38 blood samples obtained from 31 patients w...

Static p-n junctions in inorganic semiconductors are exploited in a wide range of today's electronic appliances. Here, we demonstrate the in situ formation of a dynamic p-n junction structure within an organic semiconductor through electrochemistry. Specifically, we use scanning kelvin probe microscopy and optical probing on planar light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) with a mixture of a...

The cells of all tissues are coupled by gap junctions, with the exception of blood and adult skeletal muscle cells. Gap junctions provide for homoeostasis and integrative function by mediating the exchange of ions and chemical second messenger molecules between adjacent cells. The electrical signaling provided by these specialized intercellular junctions is perhaps best understood in the heart,...

In this study, the flanking sequence of an inserted fragment conferring glyphosate tolerance on transgenic cotton line BG2-7 was analyzed by thermal asymmetric interlaced polymerase chain reaction (TAIL-PCR) and standard PCR. The results showed apparent insertion of the exogenous gene into chromosome D10 of the Gossypium hirsutum L. genome, as the left and right borders of the inserted fragment...

An elastic-viscoplastic constitutive material model is developed for the representation of creep response a 10%Cr steel under cyclic loading conditions. It has been shown that able to describe primary regeneration (PCR), i.e. incidence period high strain rate following stress reversal. The variant well-known Chaboche viscoplastic model, and employs bi-term power-law equation represent stress-re...