Geo-specific road databases are sometimes necessary for driving simulation studies. However, manually creating them is very time consuming. One of the reasons is that a real road can have non-uniform cross sections due to irregular shaped road boundaries. Additionally, in the UCF driving simulator system, the road database format requires identification of repeatable cross sections, which is al...

We are studying two new detector technologies that directly measure the three-dimensional coordinates of 511 keV photon interactions for high-resolution positron emission tomography (PET) systems designed for small animal and breast imaging. These detectors are based on (1) lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO) scintillation crystal arrays coupled to position-sensitive avalanche photodiodes (PSAPD) a...

Human ankyrin repeat and suppressor of cytokine signaling box protein 9 (hASB9) is a specific substrate-recognition subunit of an elongin C-cullin-SOCS box E3 ubiquitin ligase complex. It recognizes its substrate, brain type creatine kinase (CKB), using the ankyrin repeat domain; and facilitates the polyubiquitination of CKB to mediate proteasomal degradation through the SOCS box domain. HASB9-...

We study the response and cross sections for the absorption of GW energy generated in a Jordan-BransDicke theory by a resonant mass detector shaped as a hollow sphere. As a source of the GW we take a binary system in the Newtonian approximation. For masses of the stars of the order of the solar mass, the emitted GW sweeps a range of frequencies which include the first resonant mode of the detec...

This study explores heat diffusion effects inmicro-channel heat sinks intended for electronic cooling applications. Detailed analytical models are constructed for heat sinks havingmicro-channels with rectangular, inverse trapezoidal, triangular, trapezoidal, anddiamond-shaped cross sections. Solutions are presented for both monolithic heat sinks and heat sinks with perfectly insulating cover pl...

A 12-year-old boy with difficulty in wound healing and abnormal scars since early childhood was examined. Light microscopy showed loose and disperse dermal collagen with rare bundles, and fibroblasts show an irregular morphology. The fibrous sheath of hair presented a normal parallel distribution of the collagen fibers with normal spindle-shaped fibroblasts. Transmission electron microscopy als...