Alkylated silicon nanocrystals (C11-SiNCs) were prepared successfully by galvanostatic etching of p-Si(100) wafers followed by a thermal hydrosilation reaction of 1-undecene in refluxing toluene in order to extract C11-SiNCs from porous silicon. Erbium trichloride was added to alkylated SiNCs using a simple mixing chemical route. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first investigation on ...

Type XI collagen has been associated with tumor fibrosis and aggressiveness in patients pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The propeptide on is released into the circulation after proteolytic processing at either amino acid 253 or 511. This allows for a noninvasive biomarker approach to quantify production. We developed two ELISA-based biomarkers, targeting enzymatic cleavage sites (PRO-C...

Despite the conceptual simplicity of sequential consistency (SC), the semantics of SC atomic operations and fences in the C11 and OpenCL memory models is subtle, leading to convoluted prose descriptions that translate to complex axiomatic formalisations. We conduct an overhaul of SC atomics in C11, reducing the associated axioms in both number and complexity. A consequence of our simplification...

Two bacterial strains designated C9 and C11 were isolated and characterized from black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon maintained in laboratory conditions. The shrimp exhibited tiny white spots along with clinical signs of bacterial infection, probably, due to suboptimal water quality and resulting stress. Absence of white spot syndrome virus was confirmed by PCR. Bacterial isolates obtained from ...

RNA polymerase III recognizes and pauses at its terminator, an oligo(dT) tract in non-template DNA, terminates 3' oligo(rU) synthesis within this sequence, and releases the RNA. The pol III subunit Rpc11p (C11) mediates RNA 3'-5' cleavage in the catalytic center of pol III during pausing. The amino and carboxyl regions of C11 are homologous to domains of the pol II subunit Rpb9p, and the pol II...