Passing Opportunities at Slow-Vehicle Bays

Beaches, bays and headlands

We consider local and global combinatorial constraints on embeddings of a simple closed curve in a rectangular array of unit squares in which the curve lies entirely within the rectangular array and passes through each unit square once. Geographical terminology is convenient to describe the embeddings. We study shortest segments of the embedded curve with no clockwise quarter turns (bays) and a...

Estimating the Mode Shapes of a Bridge Using Short Time Transmissibility Measurement from a Passing Vehicle

This paper reports on the analysis of the signals sent by accelerometers fixed on the axles of a vehicle which passes over a bridge. The length of the bridge is divided into some parts and the transmissibility measurement is applied to the signals recorded by two following instrumented axles. As the transmissibility procedure is performed on the divided signals, the method is called Short Time ...

Sweet bays of ERAD.

Proteins that improperly mature in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) are dislocated to the cytoplasm for proteasome-mediated destruction. A recent study provides insight into the incompletely understood processes for selection and targeting of aberrant proteins for ER-associated protein degradation. The identification of the ER chaperones GRP94 and BiP as binding partners for the mannose-binding p...

Slow Learners at School

Physics Opportunities at ELFE

I review some central physics opportunities at the 15 . . . 30 GeV continuous beam electron accelerator ELFE, proposed to be built in conjunction with the DESY linear collider. Our present detailed knowledge of single parton distributions in hadrons and nuclei needs to be supplemented by measurements of compact valence quark configurations, accessible through hard exclusive scattering, and of c...