Cholesterol tagged with the BODIPY fluorophore via the central difluoroboron moiety of the dye (B-Chol) is a promising probe for studying intracellular cholesterol dynamics. We synthesized a new BODIPY-cholesterol probe (B-P-Chol) with the fluorophore attached via one of its pyrrole rings to carbon-24 of cholesterol (B-P-Chol). Using two-photon fluorescence polarimetry in giant unilamellar vesi...

A broadband and compact size circularly polarized (CP) two-port multiple input output (MIMO) antenna with a footprint of 25 mm $\times20$ is investigated. The designed oval-shaped MIMO employs concentric rings oval slots (CROS), along...

The ternary complexes 18C6-4H20 -2 H N ( S 0 2Ph)2 (3) and 18C 6-2H 20 2 H N ( S 0 2C6H44 F ) 2 (4) were obtained by co-crystallization of 18-crown-6 (18C6) with the appropriate di(arenesulfonyl)amine from aqueous solutions and characterized by low-temperature X-ray diffraction. The crystal structures consist of monomeric formula units displaying crystallographic C, symmetry for 3 (monoclinic, ...

For synchrotron light sources and for damping rings of linear colliders it is important to be able to minimze the vertical emittance and to correct the spurious vertical dispersion. This allows one to maximize the brightness and/or the luminosity. A commonly used tool to measure the skew error distribution is the analysis of orbit response matrices using codes like LOCO. Using the new Matlab ve...

The damping rings of a future linear collider will have demanding alignment and stability requirements in order to achieve the low vertical emittance necessary for high luminosity. The Accelerator Test Facility (ATF) at KEK has successfully demonstrated the vertical emittance below 5 pm [1] that is specified for the GLC/NLC Main Damping Rings. One contribution to this accomplishment has been th...

An all-polarization maintaining (PM) single-longitudinal-mode (SLM) erbium-doped fiber laser (EDFL) with ultra-high optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR), ultra-narrow linewidth and extremely high stability is proposed experimentally demonstrated. A double-ring passive subring resonator (DR-PSR) composed of two single-coupler rings a length unpumped EDF-based saturable absorber filter designed e...

When working with hot mix asphalt, road pavers are exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) through the inhalation of vapors and particulate matter (PM) and through dermal contact with PM and contaminated surfaces. Several PAHs with four to six rings are potent carcinogens which reside in these particulate emissions. Since urinary biomarkers of large PAHs are rarely detectable in asph...

The key objective of this paper is to study the cyclic codes over mixed alphabets on structure FqPQ, where P=Fq[v]⟨v3−α22v⟩ and Q=Fq[u,v]⟨u2−α12,v3−α22v⟩ are nonchain finite rings αi in Fq/{0} for i∈{1,2}, q=pm with m≥1 a positive integer p an odd prime. Moreover,with applications, we obtain better new quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes. For another application ring P, several optimal help Gr...

Benzene, toluene and p-xylene are derivatives of benzene, generally produced from crude petroleum and have numerous applications in industry. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the impact of biofield treatment on isotopic abundance of these benzene derivatives by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Benzene, toluene and p-xylene samples were divided into two parts: control an...

Polarization modulation-Fourier transform infrared (PM-FTir) spectra were. obtained in situ for polymer films of neutral red and thionine, and for a lilm of leucomethylene blue generated on a gold electrode as a function of potential. The spectra of the polymer films revealed that the aromatic rings lie mostly parallel to the electrode surface in both the reduced and oxidized forms. In contrast...