The phase diagram of alpha -cyclodextrin/water/4-methylpyridine solutions, a system undergoing inverse melting, has been studied by differential scanning calorimetry, rheological methods, and x-ray diffraction. Two different fluid phases separated by a solid region have been observed in the high alpha -cyclodextrin concentration range (c > or =150 mg/ml) . Decreasing c , the temperature interva...

A computational model for light propagation through an etched alpha-particle track was described. Four different cases for light ray propagation through the etched track were studied in detail. The track profile, optical appearance and distribution of scattered light were given for three typical types of etched tracks. These laid the foundation for future automatic determination of properties o...

With the advent of new detector technology, digital tomosynthesis imaging of the breast has, in the past few years, become a technique intensely investigated as a replacement for planar mammography. As with all other x-ray-based imaging methods, radiation dose is of utmost concern in the development of this new imaging technology. For virtually all development and optimization studies, knowledg...

In this article we provide a combinatorial sufficient (and conjecturally, necessary) condition (called $\alpha$-symmetry) for the mating of two postcritically finite polynomials in $\mathcal{S}_1$ to be obstructed. To do this, study rotation sets associated parameter limbs connectedness locus $\mathcal{S}_1$, which allows us determine when there exist ray classes formal contain closed loop. We ...

We propose a novel mechanism to generate sterile neutrinos $\nu_s$ in the early Universe, by converting ordinary $\nu_\alpha$ scattering processes $\nu_s\nu_\alpha\to\nu_s\nu_s$. After initial production oscillations, this leads an exponential growth abundance. show that such regime naturally occurs for self-interacting $\nu_s$, and opens up significant new parameter space where make all of obs...

The three-dimensional structure of a complex of soybean beta-amylase [EC 3.2.1.2] with an inhibitor, alpha-cyclodextrin, has been determined at 3.0 A resolution by X-ray diffraction analysis. Preliminary chain tracing showed that the enzyme folded into large and small domains. The large domain has a (beta alpha)8 super-secondary structure, while the smaller one is formed from two long loops ext...

Methyl 2,3,6-trideoxy-3-hydroxyamino-3-C-methyl-alpha-D-ribo-hexopyranoside+ ++ (2) and the corresponding amino sugar (4) were isolated from reduced viriplanin A by acidic methanolysis and esterified to the di-p-bromobenzoates (3 and 5), respectively. The absolute configuration of crystalline 3 was determined by X-ray analysis to be alpha-D. This result could be confirmed by oxidation of 2 to m...

The investigations of Si 1s and 2p photoelectron spectra of a poly-Si plate with natural oxide layers based on high energy excitation using X-ray tubes with three kinds of target (Mg K(alpha), Zr L(alpha) and Ag L(alpha)) and on the theoretical calculations using DV-Xalpha were presented. From the comparison between the shift values of Si 1s and 2p corresponding with the metal and oxide, it was...