1. CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze, Centro S3, Via G Campi 213/a, I-41125 Modena, Italy 2. CNR-IMEM, Parco delle Scienze 37a, I-43100 Parma, Italy 3. Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada 4. CNR-IMM Bologna, Via P. Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy 5. Dipartimento FIM, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via G. Campi 213/a, 41125 Modena, Ital...

We continue our investigation of Lithium Lens (LL) for usage in ILC positron conversion system. Magneto-Hydrodynamic and Thermo-dynamic problems discussed in association with ~100 kA feeding pulsed current. Set of Partial Differential Equations used for description of magneto-hydrodynamics phenomena in liquid Lithium flow. Calculations confirm feasibility of liquid Lithium system. Some interest...

Early full-term pregnancy affords lifetime protection against the development of breast cancer. Parityinduced protection can be reproduced in a carcinogeninduced rat mammary carcinoma model, but the molecular mechanisms of this protection against carcinogenic stimuli in rat mammary glands have not been fully characterized. To gain a better understanding of these molecular mechanisms, we used an...

We apply our proposal method (Canny_PCA_ANN) for recognition of six basic facial expressions on JAFFE database consisting 213 images posed by 10 Japanese female models. The experimental result shows the feasibility of our proposal method.

Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) triggers apoptosis in a variety of tumor cells through two of its receptors: TRAIL-R1 and TRAIL-R2. We investigate the susceptibility of human renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cells to TRM-1 and HGS-ETR2, 2 human monoclonal agonistic antibodies specific for TRAIL-R1 and TRAIL-R2, respectively. HGS-ETR2 effectively induced apoptotic cell ...

Molecular dynamics simulations employing reactive potentials were used to determine the activation barriers to the dissolution of the amorphous SiO2 surface in the presence of a 2 nm overlayer of water. The potential of mean force calculations of the reactions of water molecules with 15 different starting Q4 sites (Qi is the Si site with i bridging oxygen neighbors) to eventually form the disso...

The structure and energetic properties of four common oxazine dyes, Nile red, Nile blue A, Cresyl violet, and Brilliant cresyl blue, have been probed using a combination of infrared multiple-photon dissociation (IRMPD) spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations. IRMPD spectra of the protonated dyes, as generated from an electrospray ionization (ESI) source, were collected in the range of 90...

In this work, experimental hydrogen-bond (HB) enthalpies measured in previous works for a wide range of acceptor molecules in dilute mixtures of 4-fluorophenol in non-polar solvents are quantified from COSMO polarisation charge densities s of HB acceptors (HBA). As well as previously demonstrated for quantum chemically calculated HB enthalpies, a good correlation of the experimental data with t...

The interaction of singlet oxygen (O2) generated in a photosensitized process with well-known reference photosensitizers Perinaphthenone (PN) and TMPyP is investigated in a model system consisting of fatty acids and the respective exogenous photosensitizer (PS) in solution by direct detection of the luminescence photons of O2 at 1270 nm. Such a model system is a first approach to mimic the comp...

Quantum interference (QI) effects in molecular devices have drawn increasing attention over the past years due to their unique features observed in the conductance spectrum. For the further development of single molecular devices exploiting QI effects, it is of great theoretical and practical interest to develop simple methods controlling the emergence and the positions of QI effects like anti-...