Department of Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2686. Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street,Toronto, ON, M5S 3H8, Canada Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 9110 On leave of absence from Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, Italy Center for...

A local pH measurement around cell by pH sensing gel-tool with adhesivecontrollability was developed. We fabricated gel-tool impregnated with pH indicator Bromothymol blue (BTB), which is used for pH measurement in neutral range. Adhesion of the gel-tool to objects such as glass, gel-tool and cell is performed by UV illumination in an electrolyte solution of a certain concentration. Gel-tool is...

We compute in QCD perturbation theory the transverse energy carried by gluons, quarks and antiquarks with pT ≥ p0 ≈ 2 GeV in Pb+Pb collisions at √ s = 5500 AGeV by using structure functions compatible with the small-x increase observed at HERA. This gives a perturbative estimate for the energy and entropy density of the bulk system at times τ ∼ 0.1 fm. The predicted initial gluon entropy densit...

The feasibility of using ‘‘grain-boundary engineering” techniques to reduce the susceptibility of a metallic material to intergranular embrittlement in the presence of hydrogen is examined. Using thermomechanical processing, the fraction of ‘‘special” grain boundaries was increased from 46% to 75% (by length) in commercially pure nickel samples. In the presence of hydrogen concentrations betwee...

Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus ORF54/dUTPase downregulates a ligand for the NK 1 activating receptor NKp44 2 Alexis Madrid and Don Ganem# 3 4 1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute and GW Hooper Foundation Laboratories 5 University of California, San Francisco CA 94143 6 7 2 Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research 8 Emeryville, CA 94608 9 10 #Corresponding Author 11 Novartis Institutes ...

Sustainable mobility and smart mobility management play important roles in achieving smart cities' goals. In this context we investigate the role of smartphones as mobility behavior sensors and evaluate the responsivity of different attitudinal profiles towards personalized route suggestion incentives delivered via mobile phones. The empirical results are based on mobile sensed data collected f...

Many bones are supported internally by a latticework of trabeculae. Scaling of whole bone length and diameter has been extensively investigated, but scaling of the trabecular network is not well characterized. We analysed trabecular geometry in the femora of 90 terrestrial mammalian and avian species with body masses ranging from 3 g to 3400 kg. We found that bone volume fraction does not scale...

N-body simulations of dark matter enable us to understand how galaxies and galaxy clusters formed in the universe. Navigating through a model created from such a supercomputer simulation, especially in stereo, enables those studying this process to better understand it. However, the amount of data involved, makes building a model that can be navigated, even on today’s computers difficult. In th...

Clinical Risk Management Unit, Wimmera Health Care Group, Horsham, VIC. Alan M Wolff, FRACGP, MBA, Director of Medical Services; Sally A Taylor, BN, RM, MAM (Health), Clinical Risk Manager; Janette F McCabe, BN, CritCareCert, MAM (Health), Nurse Unit Manager (formerly Clinical Pathway Coordinator). Reprints: Dr Alan M Wolff, Clinical Risk Management Unit, Wimmera Health Care Group, Baillie Stre...

Since its introduction in 1984, Code Excited Linear Predictive (CELP) [1] coding has received considerable attention for high quality speech coding at low bit-rates. Although most of the research has been focused on coding of narrowband (200-3400 kHz) speech, some recent studies on CELP coding of wideband (50-7000 kHz) speech have been reported [2], [3], [4]. A possible application for wideband...