We investigated the effects of aging on Drosophila melanogaster indirect flight muscle from the whole organism to the actomyosin cross-bridge. Median-aged (49-day-old) flies were flight impaired, had normal myofilament number and packing, barely longer sarcomeres, and slight mitochondrial deterioration compared with young (3-day-old) flies. Old (56-day-old) flies were unable to beat their wings...

We present a joint theoretical and experimental investigation of the optoelectronic properties of CuVO3, CuNbO3 and Cu5Ta11O30 materials for potential photocatalytic and solar cell applications. In addition to the experimental results obtained by powder X-ray diffraction and UV-Vis spectroscopy of the materials synthesized under flowing N2 gas at atmospheric pressure via solid-state reactions, ...

In an increasingly modified world, understanding and predicting the consequences of landscape alteration on biodiversity is a challenge for ecologists. To this end, metacommunity theory has developed to better understand the complexity of local and regional interactions that occur across larger landscapes. While metacommunity ecology has now provided several alternative models of species coexis...

consider an n × n matrix polynomial p(λ). a spectral norm distance from p(λ) to the set of n × n matrix polynomials that havea given scalar µ ∈ c as a multiple eigenvalue was introducedand obtained by papathanasiou and psarrakos. they computedlower and upper bounds for this distance, constructing an associated perturbation of p(λ). in this paper, we extend this resultto the case of two given di...

in this paper, a new analytical approach has been presented for solving strongly nonlinear oscillator problems. iteration perturbation method leads us to high accurate solution. two different high nonlinear examples are also presented to show the application and accuracy of the presented method. the results are compared with analytical methods and with the numerical solution using runge-kutta m...

Tin carbodiimides have been reported with various compositions, prepared via solid-state metathesis reactions by heating tin halides and lithium carbodiimide at moderate temperatures. The formations of two new compounds, LiSn2Br3(CN2) Sn4Br2(CN2)3 are monitored differential thermal analysis (DTA), crystal structures as refined on basis X-ray diffraction studies. structure can be described inter...

A high resolution, limited area version of the NCAR GCM is used to simulate the March 14, 1975 east coast storm. Based on climatological data, synoptic experience, and an examination of numerous cases, this cyclone was chosen because it seemed to have been strongly influenced by the Appalachian Mountains. The storm was investigated in detail and is briefly described. The NCAR GCM is also descri...