The Goos-Hänchen shift on the surface when an optical beam is obliquely incident from one isotropic right-handed material (RHM) into another biaxial anisotropic left-handed material (BALHM) is numerically studied with the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method based on the Drude dispersive models. The analytical expression of the Goos-Hänchen shift is firstly presented, moreover the condit...

Functional competence as well as phenotype heterogeneity of macrophages depend on the completion of their maturation pathway. Differentiation of committed myeloid progenitor cells is induced by colony-stimulating factors (CSF), but no consistent data exist on which factor(s) induce the terminal maturation from the circulating blood monocyte to the mature macrophage. In vitro, monocyte to macrop...

The aim of this study was to identify genomic regions underlying milk production traits in the Valle del Belice dairy sheep using regional heritability mapping (RHM). Repeated measurements for yield (MY), fat percentage and (F% FY) protein (P% PY), collected over a period 6 years (2006–2012) on 481 ewes, were used analysis. Animals genotyped with Illumina 50k SNP chip. Variance components, heri...

The deadly coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has highlighted the importance of remote health monitoring (RHM). digital twins (DTs) paradigm enables RHM by creating a virtual replica that receives data from physical asset, representing its real-world behavior. However, DTs use passive internet things (IoT) sensors, which limit their potential to specific location or entity. This problem can be addr...

BACKGROUND Despite many success stories of genome wide association studies (GWAS), challenges exist in QTL detection especially in datasets with many levels of relatedness. In this study we compared four methods of GWA on a dataset simulated for the 15th QTL-MAS workshop. The four methods were 1) Mixed model analysis (MMA), 2) Random haplotype model (RHM), 3) Genealogy-based mixed model (GENMIX...

Usually, the search for new candidate probiotics starts from strain isolation, followed by genotypic and phenotypic characterisations. For best candidates, final selection criteria, i.e., an efficient biomass production survival to stressful conservation processes, may often represent a bottleneck. The aim of this study is reverse classic bottom-up approach, thereby evaluating in vitro probioti...

Deep sub-micron memory devices play a crucial role in space electronic applications due to their susceptibility single-event upset and double-node types of soft errors. When charged particle from hit scaled circuit, the critical charge sensitive storage nodes drops, node happens across nodes. This paper describes error immune RHBD-14T SRAM cell (SEI-14T) for satellite applications. The SEI-14T ...

Comfrey or Symphytum officinale (L.) (Boraginaceae) is a very popular plant used for therapeutic purposes. Since the 1980s, its effects have been studied in long-term carcinogenesis studies, in which Comfrey extract is administered at high doses during several months and the neoplastic hepatic lesions are evaluated. However, the literature on this topic is very poor considering the studies perf...

We use computer simulations to investigate the amount of genetic variation for complex traits that can be revealed by single-SNP genome-wide association studies (GWAS) or regional heritability mapping (RHM) analyses based on full genome sequence data or SNP chips. We model a large population subject to mutation, recombination, selection, and drift, assuming a pleiotropic model of mutations samp...