The ability to tune color output of nanomaterials is very important for their applications in laser, optoelectronic device, color display and multiplexed biolabeling. Here we first propose a femtosecond pulse shaping technique to realize the up-conversion fluorescence tuning in lanthanide-doped nanocrystals dispersed in the glass. The multiple subpulse formation by a square phase modulation can...

Whether structure and function are correlated features of organelles is a fundamental question in cell biology. Here, we have assessed the ability of Arabidopsis mutants with a defective endoplasmic reticulum (ER) structure to invoke the unfolded protein response (UPR), an essential ER signaling pathway. Through molecular and genetic approaches, we show that loss of the ER-shaping GTPase Root H...

In the modeling of exible structures, there is generally uncertainty in both the frequencies and damping constants , and it is thus important that the control methods for such systems be robust to these uncertainties. Input shapers have been shown to yield good performance while being insensitive to modeling errors. Most previous input shaping studies, however, have addressed only frequency mod...

The emerging importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has led to increasing interest in recent years about how to improve their performance. Therefore, to improve SMEs’ performance, we define proactivity as an essential factor that enables a company to anticipate change, to have the desire to make a change, and to create that change in our research framework. We also suppose tha...

This paper presents an approach for designing multi-input shapers using an s-plane pole placement technique. Slightly more information about the system model is taken into account than has been traditionally done with input shaping designs. The input shaping sequences for all system inputs are solved for simultaneously , and the resulting designs lead to shorter impulse sequences than solving f...

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