The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) serves several important functions, mainly post-translational modification, folding and assembly of newly synthesized secretary proteins, synthesizing lipids and cellular calcium storage. Various factors can disrupt ER homeostasis and disturb its functions, which leads to the accumulation of unfolded and misfolded proteins and to potential cellular dysfunction and...

In the current research, a three-dimensional finite element model was considered to predict the mechanical behavior of Single Wall (SWCNTs) and Multi Wall Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs). Assuming the nonlinear elastic behavior of C-C bond in large strains, hyperelastic models were considered. Literature review revealed that the material parameters of the hyperelastic models have been determined from...

This work deals with the calculation of Franck-Condon factors using Hua potential function for the first time. The advantages of this function have been mentioned, and the numerical methods are used to obtain Franck-Condon factors for the following band systems: Agreement between the values of this work and those obtained from other works is quite good that verifies the reliability...

there is limited knowledge about physiological and biochemical functions of bread wheat and durum wheat genotypes in response to drought stress. to study differences of drought-sensitive bread and durum wheat genotypes to drought stress, this study was conducted under two different irrigation regimes (well-watered and water-stressed treatments) under glasshouse conditions. the experiment was co...

There has been a great deal of activity recently on approaches to the calculation of protein folding using specially devised empirical potential functions. We have developed one such function that solves the protein structure recognition problem: given the sequence for a globular protein and a collection of plausible protein conformations, including the native conformation for that sequence, id...

S.Z. Li, Y.H. Huang, J.S. Fu School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 2263 ABSTRACT A general de nition of convex potential functions is given for discontinuity-preserving MRF restoration models. This gives a class of Bayesian MRF models which satisfy several desirable analytical and computational properties for regularization o...

Water potential is amongst the most useful parameters for the measurement of the degree of water stress in plants. With the objective of mitigating adverse effects of moisture stress on water potential, osmotic potential and pressure potential of wheat variety Inquilab-91, a greenhouse experiment was conducted using two moisture levels viz., normal moisture supply and moisture stress at crown r...

ABSTRACT This paper presents the theoretical developments of two finite strip methods (i.e. semi-analytical and full-analytical) for the post-buckling analysis of isotropic plates. In the semi-analytical finite strip approach, all the displacements are postulated by the appropriate shape functions while in the development process of the full-analytical approach, the Von-Karman’s equilibrium equ...