Electrically induced signals and light emissions from Restrictive Plate Chamber (RPC) are simultaneously measured using a glass RPC with transparent high-voltage planes, operating in the streamer mode. With one exception, good correspondence is seen in between the electrical and optical signals in every aspect: signal shapes, pulse heights, timing and afterpulses. The one exception is a possibl...

Primary ionization is created inside the gas gap of a small size ð10 20 cmÞ RPC, analogous to the RPC of the ATLAS muon detector, by focusing a pulsed (width p0:5 ns) nitrogen laser beam (transverse diameter E15 mm). With this set-up we can characterize the behaviour of the RPC by measuring such parameters as drift velocity and gas amplification. For an ATLAS-like gas mixture (97% C2H2F4; 3% is...

Restricted path consistency (RPC) is a strong local consistency for binary constraints that was proposed 20 years ago and was identified as a promising alternative to arc consistency (AC) in an early experimental study of local consistencies for binary constraints. However, and in contrast to other strong local consistencies such as SAC and maxRPC, it has been neglected since then. In this pape...

Gene transcription is carried out by RNA polymerases (RNAPs). For transcription to occur, the closed promoter complex (RPc), where DNA is double stranded, must isomerize into an open promoter complex (RPo), where the DNA is melted out into a transcription bubble and the single-stranded template DNA is delivered to the RNAP active site. Using a bacterial RNAP containing the alternative σ54 facto...

Remote procedure call (RPC) integrates distributed processing with conventional programming languages. However, traditional RPC lacks support for forms of communication such as datagrams, multicast, and streams that fall outside the strict request-response model. Emerging applications such as Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) and Internet video require scalable, reliable, and efficient c...

Extracellular stability, endocytic escape, intracellular DNA release and nuclear translocation of DNA are all critical properties of non-viral vector/DNA particles. We have evaluated a (Lys)(16)-based linear, reducible polycation (RPC) in combination with an acid-dependent, anionic fusogenic peptide for gene delivery to dividing and post-mitotic cells. The RPC was formed from Cys(Lys)(16)Cys mo...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate whether radiopaque Portland cement (RPC) facilitates the mineralization process in human dental pulp cells (HDPCs) compared with pure Portland cement (PC). STUDY DESIGN Under a scanning electron microscope (SEM), cellular morphology was evaluated. Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity was analyzed, and nodule formation was assessed by performin...

This paper experimentally investigates the behavior of a non-prismatic concrete frame using different types under static and repeated loads. The parametric study includes changing type (conventional concrete, steel fiber reactive powder (SF-RPC) glass (GF-RPC)) loading (static repeated). results were presented discussed effect SF-RPC GF-RPC on behavior, compared with conventional through first ...

MRPC is an RPC system that is designed and optimized for MPMD parallel computing. Existing systems based on standard RPC incur an unnecessarily high cost when used on high-performance multi-computers, limiting the appeal of RPC-based languages in the parallel computing community. MRPC combines the efficient control and data transfer provided by Active Messages (AM) with a minimal multithreaded ...