A natural combined model of the Kerr spinning particle and super-particle is obtained leading to a non-trivial super black hole solution. By analogue with complex structure of the Kerr solution we perform a supershift on the Kerr geometry, and then select a " body "-submanifold of superspace that yields a non-trivial supergeneralization of the Kerr metric with a nonlinear realization of (2,0)-s...

A rapid and accurate diagnosis of the species and antibiotic resistance of bacteria in septic blood is vital to increase survival rates of patients with bloodstream infections, particularly those with carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) infections. The extremely low levels in blood (1 to 100CFU/ml) make rapid diagnosis difficult. In this study, very low concentrations of bacteria (6 t...

Aquaporin-3 (AQP3) and aquaporin-4 (AQP4) are homologous proteins expressed in the basolateral plasma membrane of kidney collecting duct principal cells, where they mediate the exit pathway for apically reabsorbed water. Although both proteins are localized to the same plasma membrane domain, it is unknown if they are sorted together in the Golgi, or arrive in the same or different vesicles at ...

In [N73], Newman considered the holomorphic extension Ẽ(z) of the Coulomb field E(x) in R. By analyzing its multipole expansion, he showed that the real and imaginary parts E(x+ iy) ≡ Re Ẽ(x+ iy), H(x+ iy) ≡ Im Ẽ(x+ iy), viewed as functions of x, are the electric and magnetic fields generated by a spinning ring of charge R. This represents the EM part of the Kerr-Newman solution to the Einstein...

We have calculated the structures and the emergent spectra of stationary, geometrically thin accretion disks around 100 and 1000 M⊙ black holes in both the Schwarzschild and extreme Kerr metrics. Equations of radiative transfer, hydrostatic equilibrium, energy balance, ionization equilibrium, and statistical equilibrium are solved simultaneously and consistently. The six most astrophysically ab...

A recent key requirement in life sciences is the observation of biological processes in their natural in vivo context. However, imaging techniques that allow fast imaging with higher resolution in 3D thick specimens are still limited. Spinning disk confocal microscopy using a Yokogawa Confocal Scanner Unit, which offers high-speed multipoint confocal live imaging, has been found to have wide ut...

Angle-resolved linear dichroism is a recent technique that exploits images recorded using an illumination field whose polarization angle is sequentially rotated during acquisition. It allows to retrieve orientation information of the fluorescent molecules, namely the average orientation angle and the amplitude of the fluctuations around this average. In order to boost up the acquisition speed w...

Cu nanoparticles are known to be very active for methanol (MeOH) synthesis at relatively low temperatures, such that smaller particle sizes yield better MeOH productivity. We aimed to control Cu nanoparticle (NP) size and size distribution for catalysing MeOH synthesis, by using the spinning disk reactor. The spinning disk reactor (SDR), which operates based on shear effect and plug flow in thi...

In [N73], Newman considered the holomorphic extension Ẽ(z) of the Coulomb field E(x) in R. By analyzing its multipole expansion, he showed that the real and imaginary parts E(x+ iy) ≡ Re Ẽ(x+ iy), H(x+ iy) ≡ Im Ẽ(x+ iy), viewed as functions of x, are the electric and magnetic fields generated by a spinning ring of charge R. This represents the EM part of the Kerr-Newman solution to the Einstein...

Understanding the trafficking of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and their regulation by agonists and antagonists is fundamental to develop more effective drugs. Optical methods using fluorescent-tagged receptors and spinning disk confocal microscopy are useful tools to investigate membrane receptor dynamics in living cells. The aim of this study was to develop a method to characterize rece...