Colloidal particles with two or more different surface properties (Janus particles) are of interest in catalysis, biological imaging, and drug delivery. Eccentric nanoparticles are a type of Janus particle consisting of a shell that envelops the majority of a core particle, leaving a portion of the core surface exposed. Previous work to synthesize eccentric nanoparticles from silica and polysty...

Janus is a language designed for distributed constraint programming 12]. This paper describes jc, an eecient and portable sequential implementation of Janus, which compiles Janus programs down to C code. Careful attention to the C code generated, together with some simple local optimizations, allows the system to have fairly good performance despite the lack (at this time) of global ow analysis...

We found 10 individuals from 7 unrelated families among 170 severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) patients who exhibited 9 different Janus kinase 3 (JAK3) mutations. These included 3 missense and 2 nonsense mutations, 1 insertion, and 3 deletions. With the exception of 1 individual with persistence of transplacentally transferred maternal lymphocytes, all infants presented with a T B NK pheno...

A reaction-induced phase separation strategy in emulsion droplets has been developed to fabricate non-spherical Janus particles. The final morphology of the resulting Janus particles is controlled by a reaction sequence. These Janus particles are amphiphilic and show regio-selective adsorption orientation at oil/water interfaces.

The development of software for scientific applications that rest on dynamic or irregular meshes causes many problems because of the conflicting issues of flexibility and efficiency. This dissertation addresses these problems in the following way. Firstly, it applies the ideas of domain engineering to the field of data-parallel applications in order to design reusable software products that acc...

Anisotropic multifunctional particles hold great promise for drug delivery, imaging, and construction of building blocks for dynamic mesostructures such as self-assembled tissues and 3-D electrical circuits. Of particular interest, multifunctional particles with unique barcodes have been suggested as diagnosis tools for rapid screening of biomolecules. For these applications, particle design is...

We present JANUS, a speech-to-speech translation system that utilizes diverse processing strategies, including connectionist learning, traditional AI knowledge representation approaches, dynamic programming, and stochastic techniques. JANUS translates continuously spoken English and German into German, English, and Japanese. JANUS currently achieves 87% translation fidelity from English speech ...

We study several aspects of generalized Janus configuration, which includes a theta term. We investigate the vacuum structure of the theory and find that unlike the Janus configuration without theta term there is no nontrivial vacuum. We also discuss BPS soliton configuration both by supersymmetry analysis and from energy functional. The half BPS configurations could be realized by introducing ...