The endodermis in roots acts as a selectivity filter for nutrient and water transport essential for growth and development. This selectivity is enabled by the formation of lignin-based Casparian strips. Casparian strip formation is initiated by the localization of the Casparian strip domain proteins (CASPs) in the plasma membrane, at the site where the Casparian strip will form. Localized CASPs...

Timing Resistive Plate Chambers in multi-strip configuration, pioneered by the FOPI collaboration [1], are planned for covering the low-granularity part of the CBM-TOF wall. A recent experiment at GSI cave-B has shown that, with an adequate optimization of the strip layout and readout, the multi-strip concept is sound in terms of timing and efficiency, and well suited for a multi-hit environmen...

Ivan A. Larkin†and L. S. Levitov‡ †Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK ‡Center for Materials Science & Engineering, Physics Department, MIT, Cambridge, MA-02139 Abstract The incompressible Quantum Hall strip is sensitive to charging of localized states in the cyclotron gap. We study the effect of localized states by a density functional approach an...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate a newly-designed mitral annuloplasty strip (the Mitra-Lift(®) strip) in patients undergoing mitral valve repair for mitral regurgitation (MR). METHODS A total of 30 patients who underwent posterior mitral strip annuloplasty for moderately severe to severe MR were evaluated in this study. The strip annuloplasty (SA) consisted of the use of the newl...

at first, ground-based circular strip-map synthetic aperture radar (gb-csmsar) and its capabilities is introduced and the received signal model, 2-d frequency spectrum and the azimuth and range resolutions are derived and compared with the linear motion strip-map sar resolutions. because of the stability of the path and speed of antenna in gb-csmsar a frequency domain imaging algorithm is sugge...