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Strawberry fatty acyl glycosides enhance disease protection, have antibiotic activity and stimulate plant growth (2020)

An increasing interest in the development of products of natural origin for crop disease and pest control has emerged in the last decade. Here we introduce a new family of strawberry acyl glycosides (SAGs) formed by a trisaccharide (GalNAc-GalNAc-Glc) and a monounsaturated fatty acid of 6 to 12 carbon atoms linked to the glucose unit. Application of SAGs to Arabidopsis thaliana (hereafter Arabidopsis) plants triggered a transient oxidative burst, callose deposition and defense gene expression, accompanied by increased protection against two phytopathogens, Pseudomonas viridiflava and Botrytis cinerea. SAGs-induced disease protection was also demonstrated in soybean infected with the causal agent of target spot, Corynespora cassiicola. SAGs were shown to exhibit important antimicrobial activity against a wide-range of bacterial and fungal phytopathogens, most probably through membrane destabilization, and the potential use of SAGs as a biofungicide for postharvest disease protection was demonstrated on lemon fruits infected with Penicillium digitatum. Plant growth promotion by application of SAGs was shown by augmented primary root elongation, secondary roots development and increased siliques formation in Arabidopsis, whereas a significant increment in number of seed pods was demonstrated in soybean. Stimulation of radicle development and the induction of an auxin-responsive reporter system (DR5::GUS) in transgenic Arabidopsis plants, suggested that SAGs-stimulated growth at least partly acts through the auxin response pathway. These results indicate that strawberry fatty acid glycosides are promising candidates for the development of environmental-friendly products for disease management in soybean and lemon.
Index of refraction measurement on sapphire at low temperatures and visible wavelengths (1993)

The ordinary and extraordinary refractive index of two samples of sapphire, which differed in the way each was grown, was measured. The measurements were made over a wavelength range of 477-701 nm and a temperature range of 20-295 K. A three-term Sellmeier dispersion equation was fit to the data to permit refractive-index interpolation within several parts in 10(4). The data of index versus temperature were fit to a model and the results of dn/dT versus temperature are given along with certain physical constants that were extracted from the model.
Shock Load Capacity of Concrete Expansion Anchoring Systems in Uncracked Concrete (2005)

Concrete anchoring systems are commonly used in blast resistant wall systems. These anchoring systems are often subjected to large tensile forces in a short time during an external blast event. Previous research has been conducted on anchoring systems to evaluate their response to cyclic and “shock” loads; however, the ultimate capacities of these systems were not determined, and tests were conducted at relatively slow loading rates. In this paper, testing has been performed to determine the ultimate capacity of various expansion anchors at high loading rates, which is characteristic of most blast events. Ultimately, concrete expansion anchors perform differently at high loading rates and some show improved ultimate performance. This paper will present the experimental findings and provide recommendations for anchor design under blast loads.
Robust Bandwidth Extension of Narrowband Speech (2004)

Telephone speech often sounds muffled and thin due to its narrowband characteristics. With the increased availability of terminals capable of receiving wideband signals, extending the bandwidth of narrowband telephone speech at the receiver has drawn much research interest. Currently, there exist many methods that can provide good reconstructions of the wideband spectra from narrowband speech; however, they often lack robustness to different channel conditions, and their performances degrade when they operate in unknown environments. This thesis presents a bandwidth extension algorithm that mitigates the effects of adverse conditions. The proposed system is designed to work with noisy input speech and unknown channel frequency response. To maximize the naturalness of the reconstructed speech, the algorithm estimates the channel and applies equalization to recover the attenuated bands. Artifacts are reduced by employing an adaptive and a fixed postfilters. Subjective test results suggest that the proposed scheme is not affected by channel conditions and is able to produce speech with enhanced quality in adverse environments. ii
Ultra-thin PoP solution using wafer level Fan-out technologies (2016)

This study uses 300mm wafer level Fan-out technology to develop an ultra-thin PoP package. The key processes, such as temporary RDL preformation on carrier wafer, face-up thin chip bonding on RDL carrier, thin cap compression molding, epoxy encapsulation followed by Cu pillar surface grinding and land-side-capacitor, have been successfully designed and developed. The test vehicles have pillar chip fan-out package dimensions of 12mm × 12mm × 0.1mm to 16mm × 16mm × 0.3mm, with a solder ball pitch of 0.35mm. This packaging technology has been implemented to verify the prior construction analysis and to demonstrate the capability of the process. From the observations of shadow moiré, it was found that various methods can be used to improve component warpage at the high temperatures encountered during solder ball reflow.
Heteroepitaxy of single-crystal LaLuO3 on GaAs(111)A by atomic layer deposition (2010)

We demonstrate that LaLuO3 films can be grown epitaxially on sulfur-passivated GaAs(111)A substrates by atomic layer deposition (ALD). Transmission electron microscopy and x-ray diffraction analyses reveal that the oxide film exhibits a cubic structure with a lattice mismatch of −3.8% relative to GaAs. The epitaxial layer has a high degree of crystalline perfection and is relaxed. Electrical characterizations performed on this structure show interfaces with a low interface state density of ∼7×1011 cm−2 eV−1. The measured dielectric constant is around 30, which is close to its bulk crystalline value. In contrast, ALD LaLuO3 is polycrystalline on GaAs(100) and amorphous on Si(111).
Production of Dense Compact Billet From Ti-Alloy Powder Using Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (2007)

The project was aimed at an investigation of the potential for cost-effective, efficient consolidation of pre-alloyed "PA" Ti-6Al-4V (HDH) powder at temperatures of 400?C and below using Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE), with applied back pressure. The limit on processing temperature was imposed to minimize the contamination of powder and compact with gaseous constituents known to be harmful to resultant properties. An analysis of existing published investigations of current processing techniques, most notably those involving hot isostatic pressing (HIP), reveals that relative densities of 98-100% can only be obtained at processing temperatures in excess of 800?C. For such methods, and temperatures below 400?C, the relative densities achievable are typically of the order of 77%, when starting with an initial ?tape? density of 63%. In this context, the project goals, of reducing the processing temperature of PA powder compaction below 400?C while achieving a relative density above 98%, are to be seen as quite challenging. The novelty of the approach arises from the notion that severe shear deformation could prove an important factor for improving consolidation at relatively low processing temperatures. It has been shown that the use of ECAE with back pressure at 400?C permits production of compacts with relative densities in the range 98.3-98.6% and green strengths up to 750 MPa. The improvements in density and green strength are attributed to enhancement of self-diffusion rates at low temperatures that are in turn the result of an excess of structural defects created during severe shear deformation and the effects of imposed hydrostatic pressure (back pressure).
HSPTX Protects Against Hemorrhagic Shock Resuscitation-Induced Tissue Injury: An Attractive Alternative to Ringer???s Lactate (2006)

HSPTX, a small volume resuscitation strategy with marked immunomodulatory potential led to a marked decrease in end-organ damage. HSPTX is an attractive alternative to RL in hemorrhagic shock resuscitation.
Simulation of Wind Power at Several Locations Using a Measured Time-Series of Wind Speed (2012)

The large-scale integration of wind power into electrical power systems is likely to require significant improvements to transmission infrastructure over coming years. Planning for these developments may involve modeling of power systems using estimates of the time-varying power output of proposed wind farms. Such estimates may be derived from wind measurements, although it is rarely the case that measurements are available simultaneously for all sites of interest. In the present work, a method is developed to produce synthetic time-series of wind power at several locations based on a measured time-series of wind speed from a reference site. The stochastic properties of the modeled time-series are shown to be comparable with those of measured data from south-eastern Australia. It is anticipated that with appropriate tuning for local conditions, the method could be applied in other geographical regions.
Differential and Simultaneous Adenosine Di- and Triphosphate Binding by MutS (2003)

The roles of ATP binding and hydrolysis in the function of MutS in mismatch repair are poorly understood. As one means of addressing this question, we have determined the affinities and number of adenosine di- and triphosphate binding sites within MutS. Nitrocellulose filter binding assay and equilibrium fluorescence anisotropy measurements have demonstrated that MutS has one high affinity binding site for ADP and one high affinity site for nonhydrolyzable ATP analogues per dimer equivalent. Low concentrations of 5'-adenylylimidodiphosphate (AMPPNP) promote ADP binding and a large excess of AMPPNP is required to displace ADP from the protein. Fluorescence energy transfer and filter binding assays indicate that ADP and nonhydrolyzable ATP analogues can bind simultaneously to adjacent subunits within the MutS oligomer with affinities in the low micromolar range. These findings suggest that the protein exists primarily as the ATP.MutS.ADP ternary complex in solution and that this may be the form of the protein that is involved in DNA encounters in vivo.
Role of L-arginine-derived nitric oxide in cholinergic dilation of gastric arterioles (1993)

The role of L-arginine-derived nitric oxide (NO) in cholinergic vasodilation of resistance vessels was studied in the intact stomach of the rat, utilizing an in vivo microscopy technique. Two L-arginine analogues, NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) and nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), were used to block NO synthesis. Cholinergic dilation of gastric submucosal arterioles was induced by topical application of various concentrations of acetylcholine (ACh) (10(-7)-10(-4) M). Intravenous but not topical administration of L-NMMA and L-NAME caused an increase in arterial pressure. Intravenous or topical L-NAME reduces resting arteriolar diameter. These findings support the contention that NO formation modulates basal vascular tone and suggest that NO release may play a significant role in the regulation of the gastric circulation. L-Arginine analogues attenuated the arteriolar dilating effect of ACh but not adenosine or nitroglycerin. Substantial arteriolar responses to ACh remained after systemic or topical treatment with either L-NMMA or L-NAME. These results indicate that the L-arginine-NO pathway accounts only in part for ACh-induced vasodilation in gastric resistance vessels in vivo.
Extended‐order statistic filter and evaluation of noise reduction performance (1991)

Abstract The authors investigated construction of an extended‐order statistic filter to remove non‐Gaussian white noise added to image signal. First, they devised a differential‐order statistic filter using signal‐differential ordering instead of a signal‐value ordering and estimated its noise reduction performance. Next, they proposed an extended‐order statistic filter which unifies the three‐order information of time, signal value, and signal differences obtained from a signal within the filter window. Preparing the 3‐dimensionalized filter coefficient space and using filter coefficients chosen sequentially in the three different orders among them allow effective noise reduction performance to be obtained. In addition, as a method for resolving a problem on the design method of filter coefficients, investigation was made using a synthesized training sequence. Extracting parameters necessary to a linear AR model from an objective signal, it is shown that the filter design using a training sequence synthesized from it gives noise reduction performance similar to the one at the optimal design.
Bitstream syntax description based adaptation of scalable video (2005)

Using scalable coding technology the multimedia content can be easily made accessible on different display terminals connected through heterogeneous channels, as scalable bitstreams can be seamlessly adapted according to the network restrictions and/or terminal properties. To make the adaptation process coding format-independent, a XML description of the bitstream scalable structure is created. Then, the adaptation is performed on the XML description and an adapted bitstream is generated from the adapted XML description. In this paper techniques used in scalable video coding, bitstream descriptions and XML as well as extractor based adaptation of scalable video bitstreams are presented.
Run-time support and storage management for memory-mapped persistent objects (2002)

The authors present the design and implementation of a persistent store called SPOMS. SPOMS is a runtime system that provides a store for persistent objects and is language independent. The objects are created via calls to SPOMS, and, when used, SPOMS directly maps them into the spaces of all requesting processes. The objects are stored in native format and are concurrently sharable. The store can handle distributed applications. The system uses the concept of a compiled class to manage persistent objects. The compiled class is a template that is used to create and store objects in a language independent manner and so that object reuse can occur without recompilation or relinking of an application that uses it. A prototype of SPOMS has been built on top of the Mach operating system. The motivations, the design, and implementation details are presented. Related and future work are discussed.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
How to Attain Ultralow Interfacial Tension and Three‐Phase Behavior with Surfactant Formulation for Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Review. Part 4: Robustness of the Optimum Formulation Zone Through the Insensibility to Some Variables and the Occurrence of Complex Artifacts (2017)

Abstract In enhanced oil recovery, not only the low‐tension performance, but also the robustness at optimum formulation is an important issue. The fourth part of our review series is dedicated to robustness, defined as the width of the zone exhibiting three‐phase behavior around the optimum formulation, whatever the scanned variable. It is first corroborated from a screening of the available data in the literature that the tension minimum is inversely proportional to the square of the three‐phase range in the HLD scale. However, since there is still an inaccuracy of about a factor 10 in the tension minimum, some significant improvement can be attained in some cases by increasing the three‐phase behavior width in two ways. The first approach consists of finding systems that are insensitive to some formulation variable such as temperature, surfactant mixture composition or concentration, and water‐to‐oil ratio. The second way is to produce an artifact through which the optimum formulation is produced twice in a scan. If the distance between the two events in the scan is reduced down to be zero, their corresponding three‐phase behavior zones merge and result in a wider WIII region with a low tension. Several cases of such events are reported: alkaline scans, anionic‐nonionic and anionic‐cationic mixture changes, linear change in composition in three‐surfactant mixture, partial precipitation from a surfactant mixture in a salinity scan, and excessive partitioning of polyethoxylated nonionics. More complex transitions with three effects in a single scan or three concomitantly scanned variables show even more possibilities in practice.
Multiple wavelength stabilization on a single optical cavity using the offset sideband locking technique (2017)

We implemented a compact, robust, and stable device for simultaneous frequency stabilization of lasers with different wavelengths used for the cooling and trapping of Yb atoms in an optical lattice clock. The lasers at 399, 556, and 759 nm are locked to a single ultra-stable cavity using the offset sideband locking technique, a modified version of the Pound-Drever-Hall method. For the most demanding stabilization here, the 556 nm laser, this system exhibits a 300 Hz linewidth for an integration time of 80 ms. We observed a long-term drift of less than 20 kHz per day at 759 nm that is suitable for operating the lattice laser with a light shift uncertainty below 1×10<sup>-18</sup>. We successfully tested the system for operating the clock during a typical working day by simultaneously locking the three lasers to the cavity.
Cell-free fetal nucleic acids in amniotic fluid (2010)

AF supernatant is a valuable and widely available but under-utilized biological resource. Further studies of cff nucleic acids in AF may lead to new insights into human fetal development and ultimately new approaches to antenatal treatment of human disease.
CO <sub>2</sub> Conversion to Formic Acid in a Three Compartment Cell with Sustainion™ Membranes (2017)

Formic acid generated from CO2 has been proposed both as a key intermediate renewable chemical feedstock as well as a potential energy storage chemical media for hydrogen. In this paper, we describe a novel three compartment electrochemical cell configuration with the capability of directly producing a pure formic acid product in the concentration range of 5 – 20 wt% at high current densities and Faradaic yields. The electrochemical cell employs a Dioxide Materials Sustainion™ anion membrane, allowing for the improved CO2 electrochemical reduction performance. Stable electrochemical cell performance for more than 500 hours has been experimentally demonstrated.
Optogenetic tools for mammalian systems (2013)

Light is fundamental to life on earth. Therefore, nature has evolved a multitude of photoreceptors that sense light across all kingdoms. This natural resource provides synthetic biology with a vast pool of light-sensing components with distinct spectral properties that can be harnessed to engineer novel optogenetic tools. These devices enable control over gene expression, cell morphology and signaling pathways with superior spatiotemporal resolution and are maturing towards elaborate applications in basic research, in the production of biopharmaceuticals and in biomedicine. This article provides a summary of the recent advances in optogenetics that use light for the precise control of biological functions in mammalian cells.
pH-Sensitive Polymeric Micelles for Programmable Drug and Gene Delivery (2012)

Polymeric micelles (PMs) belong to supramolecular core-shell-type assemblies. PMs are from amphiphilic block copolymers with several tens of nanometers in diameter. An important criterion verifying the effectiveness of micellar drug carriers is the ability to control the location and time over which drug release occurs. The pH variations in the body are particularly important in the development of micellar carriers for treating diseases such as cancer and inflammation. pH-sensitive PMs have emerged as a fascinating class of nanoscopic drug carriers that can be elegantly applied for programmed drug and gene delivery. In this review, we provide an analysis of recent literature reports on these pH-sensitive PMs. Different approaches that have been taken to develop pH-sensitive PMs are highlighted, including incorporating pH-sensitive building blocks such as poly(L-histidine) and poly(β-amino ester), and acid degradable linkages such as hydrazones and acetals. The potential applications of pH-sensitive PMs within the biomedical field are also summarized.
Immune risk phenotype is associated with nosocomial lung infections in elderly in-patients (2011)

Immunological parameters that are easy to determine in everyday practice and known to be associated with immune system ageing and shorter survival in the elderly are also associated with an elevated risk of nosocomial pneumonia in the relatively short term.
Perempuan dan Media Massa Surabaya Awal Abad Ke-20 (2004)

Abstract:\nIndustrialisasi di kota Surabaya pada akhir abad ke-19 merupakan unsur pendorong yang sangat penting bagi tumbuh dan suburnya media massa di kota terse-but. Hal itu disebabkan media massa yang dikembangkan di kota Surabaya pada awalnya memiliki tujuan sebagai sarana untuk memasarkan produk dan sebagai sarana untuk bersosialisasi bagi para industrialis, terutama industrialis gula. Seiring dengan perkembangan waktu, pada awal abad ke-20 pertumbuhan surat kabar dan majatah semakin pesat dengan tujuan, sasaran pembaca, dan pemilik yang makin beragam. Mereka tidak lagi terbatas dari kalangan industrialis gula (Eropa), tetapi juga sudah merambah ke berbagai kelas sosial. etnis, dan jenis kelamin. Bahkan, bahasa yang dipergunakan pun semakin bervariasi. Tidak hanya bahasa Belanda, tetapi juga bahasa Melayu, Arab, dan Jawa.\nKeywords:\nPerempuan dan Media Massa, Surabaya-Abad Ke-20
Ligand requirements for involvement of<scp>PKCε</scp>in synergistic analgesic interactions between spinal μ and δ opioid receptors (2014)

This article is part of a themed section on Opioids: New Pathways to Functional Selectivity. To view the other articles in this section visit http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bph.2015.172.issue-2.
Wideband sparse spatial spectrum estimation using matrix filter with nulling in a strong interference environment (2018)

Wideband direction of arrival (DOA) estimation using a sensor array plays a fundamental role in passive sonar signal processing. Although sparsity-based DOA estimation methods can attain high resolution in the condition of few snapshots and low signal-to-noise ratio, the localization accuracy is seriously affected by strong interferences. In this paper, a matrix filter with nulling (MFN) is used to pass weak targets in sector-of-interest (passband) while attenuating the out-of-sector (stopband) interferences by forming deep nulls toward the directions of interferences adaptively. Then, a method based on sparse spectrum fitting (SpSF) and MFN is proposed to localize closely spaced wideband signals in a strong interference environment. In comparison with the minimum variance distortionless response and SpSF, the proposed method achieves higher localization accuracy, which is verified by simulation and experimental results.